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Public health opportunity - Stop Smoking Healthcare Advisor – Smoking Cessation Practitioner.
New opportunity to join a specialist national healthcare provider in a specialist team **Full training provided and an opportunity to become a professionally NCSCT qualified smoking practitioner ** Full time or part time hours available ** Oldham, Greater Manchester – Hybrid and remote working available.
Are you passionate about working directly with a wide range of people, ideally experienced in a caring setting ? (For example you might currently be a support worker, healthcare assistant, a clinical worker, or you might work in an educational setting, supporting students as a teaching assistant)
Are you excited about being able to make a difference to people's lives, including their health and happiness?
Can you use your excellent communication skills to educate, influence and motivate others?
No two days will be the same, you will be supporting a wide range of people in a range of settings within the community on their journey to stopping smoking and enjoying better health. The organisation have a passion and commitment for addressing healthcare inequalities, and successfully reach out to vulnerable groups within the community, which could include people recovering from addictions, young parents, areas of deprivation and more. This will mean this will be a rewarding role where you will be making a life-changing difference to individuals and families.
You will manage relationships with other healthcare professionals and be part of embedding these services into all areas of healthcare.
If this sounds like you, this is an excellent opportunity to become part of a growing organisation that changes many lives throughout communities across the UK. You will be working in a specialist team that offer innovative, effective solutions across many areas of public health. Their work is crucial in addressing health inequalities within the community, and they have a superb track record of working with vulnerable groups who may sometimes struggle to access good quality healthcare.
You will be given a personalised development plan which will include targeted, specific training in order to be the very best and most effective in your role. Applications are clearly welcomed from anyone that is already NCSCT qualified, but if not, you will be supported in becoming professionally certified.
This is also a major career development opportunity as they are rapidly growing, and there is a huge amount of investment into this area of community healthcare. You will be exposed to a wide range of responsibilities and areas of healthcare, gaining knowledge of different roles, all aspects of safeguarding, project management and much more.
