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NHS FIFE INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY
You are required to be an NHS Fife Employee, Intern or Bank Staff member to apply for this post.
Health Promotion Fife is looking for a full time Stop Smoking Advisor to support the delivery of the H&SC Partnership’s Smoking Cessation Local Delivery Plan Target for 2024/25. This post is Fife Wide but based at Haig House, Cameron Hospital.
The Stop Smoking Service contributes towards improving the health of the local population in line with national and local stop smoking strategies and policy.
You will work closely with the Tobacco Lead in the delivery of targeted stop smoking interventions, use community engagement approaches, undertake awareness raising initiatives and to support referral opportunities to the Stop Smoking Service.
You will have particular responsibility for:
• Delivery of evidence based stop smoking interventions across Fife, ensuring that the work targets people/families living in deprived circumstances and specific groups in a range of settings for example communities, primary care, workplaces etc
• Increasing engagement at community level within the most deprived communities and inequalities groups
• Undertaking client assessments, make appropriate pharmacotherapy decisions, ongoing client support and undertake 4 and 12 week follow-ups.
You will require to demonstrate effective engagement strategies and approaches with special interest and hard to reach groups that support referrals to services. You will have current experience of delivering evidence based stop smoking interventions. You will be required to demonstrate your understanding on inequalities in health and how this relates to tobacco smoking.
You should have a relevant professional or academic qualification or have significant experience in stop smoking support delivered on a one to one and group basis. This is a non nursing post.
Please note the salary scale for this post is pro rata for part time hours.
For informal enquiries please contact Patricia Allan (patricia.allan3@nhs.scot) or talk to Patricia on 01592 226474 Mobile - 07785 588367 after receiving an application pack.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Recruiting Board.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.