Smokefree Lancashire Senior Practitioner
Change Grow Live, Pudding Pie Nook, Lancashire
Smokefree Lancashire Senior Practitioner
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Change Grow Live, Pudding Pie Nook, Lancashire
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 23 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
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Full Job Description
- To promote the benefits of smoking stopping smoking and the stop smoking services
- To lead a specialist team providing brief advice and structured programmes to a wide population of individuals across Lancashire
- To lead on key work-streams as required to ensure that services are appropriately tailored and targeted to specific target groups.
- Engage with the wider community to increase understanding of the impacts of smoking on health and wellbeing and encourage appropriate referrals.
- Support the Service Manager to ensure service targets are achieved
- Provide line management, supervision and appraisals to Specialists.
Understanding and knowledge of the harmful effects associated with smoking. - Experience of delivering health and/or social care interventions.
- Experience of providing line management, supervision and appraisals to staff or volunteers.
- Experience of carrying out assessments and delivering interventions matched to identified needs.
- Be able to work as part of a team
- Respond flexibly to the demands of the post
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the treatments and interventions available to smokers.
- Experience of providing line management, supervision and appraisals to staff or volunteers.
- Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing.
Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options. Our core values are 'Be open, be compassionate and be bold' and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. Smokefree Lancashire has been commissioned to deliver the stop smoking service across 12 districts of Lancashire. Our goal is to make smoking cessation a priority for everyone. We provide advice and information to people who want to quit smoking and develop personalised plans during one-to-one support sessions. We also offer groupwork sessions, pharmacotherapy and deliver training to our partner agencies. We have an exciting opportunity a Smokefree Lancashire Senior Practitioner to join our Smokefree Lancashire service. The new post holders will join our dedicated team, providing advice and information to people who want to quit smoking as well as line managing a team. - pro rata Contract: Permanent contract Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours. Responsibilities, 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
- A dedicated 'Wellness' hour each week, access to a 'Wellness' hub, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Participation in a contributory pension scheme.
- A wide range of benefits, including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, and more.
- A warm and supportive team environment.
- Extensive training, career development, and progression opportunities.
- Generous refer a friend scheme.
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 per week Full Time Salary Range: £27,132.98 - £29,529.80
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/smokefree-lancashire-senior-practitioner-126883795
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