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Location
Preston, Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
Provide general healthy lifestyle advice and support to service users and their families. This will include individual and group-based interventions, signposting and referring to other health, community, and voluntary services. Plan and deliver stop smoking advice and support including advice on stop smoking medications. This may involve individual, telephonic, on-line and group work sessions in a variety of settings and venues Identify and approach women who are eligible for tobacco dependence conversations and treatment in a variety of different settings. Participate in educating pregnant women about the benefits of stopping smoking in pregnancy and give support to those women wanting to quit. Deliver Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring to a high standard and engage in the data collection and collation of CO rates in pregnancy and following birth. Ensure that the relevant equipment is provided and maintained on an agreed schedule. Report any failings of equipment or other environmental factors to the Specialist Midwife for Public Health. Deliver Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) in line with relevant protocols and guidelines. Respond effectively to referrals within stated timescales self-referrals from the individuals, and those from colleagues /other workers/GPs. Enable utilisation of the smokefree pregnancy platform, for recording patient data, outcomes, review own personal performance against programme KPIs and engage with the Smokefree pregnancy incentive scheme. To be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of client feedback, offering recommendations as part of the team to improve services Play an active role in the development of the Smoke Free service targets and work collaboratively with team members to share best practice and information on how to achieve these.
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Salary
£25.15k - £27.6k per annum
