Health Promotion Fife is looking for a full time Stop Smoking Advisor to support the delivery of the Fife Health & Social Care Partnership's Smoking Cessation Local Delivery Plan standard for 2025/26. The Stop Smoking Service contributes towards improving the health of the local population in line with national and local stop smoking strategies and policy.
The post holder will work closely with the Tobacco Lead in the delivery of targeted stop smoking interventions, use community engagement approaches, undertake awareness raising initiatives and support referral opportunities to the Stop Smoking Service. Key activities include:
* Delivery of evidence-based stop smoking interventions across Fife, ensuring that the work targets people/families identified as priority groups by the Scottish Government: from a range of community, primary care, acute, outreach, mobile and workplace settings.
* Increasing engagement through promotion and awareness sessions at a community level for identified priority group receiving support from community and inequalities groups from across the Fife HSCP, Fife NHS and 3rd sector organisations.
* Undertake client assessments, make appropriate pharmacotherapy decisions, provide ongoing client support and undertake follow-ups.
You will be required to demonstrate effective engagement strategies and approaches to work with the 4 priority groups to support referrals to the service. Experience of delivering behaviour change models with health improvement knowledge and skills being desirable. You will be required to demonstrate your understanding of health inequalities and how this relates to the smoking of tobacco and vaping.
You should have a relevant professional or academic qualification or have significant experience in stop smoking support delivered on a one to one or group basis. This is a non nursing post.
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A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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