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What's on Offer:
- Salary up to 28k per annum
- A Temporary to Permanent position
- The chance to learn and develop with a well-established team
- Working with a worldwide organisation
- Benefits: 24/7 medical advice
- Gym membership Discounts
- Retail discounts
- On-site parking
- Canteen
My Client is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. Based near Durham, they have seen year on year success, with further growth and investment plans for 2025. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Stop Smoking Advisor to join their Team on a Temporary to Permanent basis.
Job responsibilities:
- Effectively engage with smokers and people who live with/support them, in our target demographic groups that include Routine and Manual workers, Social Housing Tenants and Residents and those benefiting from Adult Social Care.
- Build positive working relationships that help local people understand who we are and what we do and generate referrals into our Smokefree Durham Service.
- Motivate and empower clients to make changes, to address their smoking addiction. .
- Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions, these may include: one to one, drop ins, group sessions, telephone, or on-line support, these should be in accordance with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
- Maximise the impact of smoking cessation on health gains and reduce health inequalities.
- Provide high quality, efficient and cost-effective services throughout a diverse range of community and health settings.
- Provide a flexible, adaptable stop smoking service that meets the needs of our clients including those who have mental health conditions and/or problems with drugs or alcohol.
- Attend stakeholder meetings as required.
- Attend all relevant training, internal and external, to support the role.
Role Requirements:
- Understand smoking addiction and the impact it has on peoples' health.
- Trained (or willing to train) as an NCSCT certified stop smoking practitioner.
- Positive and proactive outlook
- Highly organised
- To be flexible and adaptable
- Effective communication skills,
- Build strong relationships, foster trust and co-operation with clients, colleagues, partners, and community stakeholders.
- Demonstrable ability to achieve individual and team targets.
- Confident using ICT equipment and software, including Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, and Client based systems such as 1S4H.
- Due to the size of our County and the limitations of the public transport systems we require a Full driving license holder, with business insurance and access to vehicle for work purposes
If you have the experience required then please get in contact with us to discuss further with a member of our team on (phone number removed).
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