Community Outreach Cessation Practitioner

• Deliver evidence based, structured and tailored support to all smokers across Cheshire West & Chester at multiple locations and settings
• Book and record information about interventions
• Support all aspects of Health & Wellbeing delivery
• Facilitate brief interventions on health & wellbeing topics
• Signpost to additional support services
• Attend and support delivery of outreach sessions and training
• Work closely with wider team and other referring agencies
• Create and deliver training sessions across Cheshire West & Chester
• Dispensing and management of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy prescriptions
• Organise and deliver face-to-face and group/drop in sessions across community spaces
• Provide telephone-based support between 9am-8pm Mon-Fri
• Manage own appointment bookings and clinic schedules
• Ensure all data collected is kept up to date and support service audits
• Engage with smokers and provide evidence-based motivational support
• Provide compassionate interventions and signpost or refer people
• Build and maintain good working relationships with community staff and organisations
• Follow-up clients referred/signposted
• Arrange and attend meetings, conferences, workshops and outreach events
• Develop and maintain knowledge of health initiatives
• Identify training needs within organisations
• Deliver Smoking Cessation training programs
• Devise new learning plans and resources
• Conduct evaluations and feedback
• Market available training courses
• Work within allocated budgets
• Ensure all data is entered into digital systems accurately
• Ensure all data is processed securely and confidentially
• Provide accurate accounts of interventions
• Complete appropriate onward referrals
• Provide feedback to referrers
• Ensure all pharmacotherapy and equipment remains secure
• Ensure Health & Safety requirements are met
• Carry out any other relevant duties
• Actively engage with wider developments of Brio

• Passionate and motivated individual
• Looking to further knowledge in Health & Wellbeing
• Willingness to learn
• Willingness to travel across Cheshire West & Chester
• Confident public speaker
• Ideally have experience in behaviour change or coaching
• Good computer literacy and attention to detail
• Ability and willingness to travel across the Cheshire West patch
• Ability to work outside of normal working hours from time to time

Experience in behaviour change or coaching

Full training and support provided