Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (Tobacco Dependency)

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Job Description

Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (Tobacco Dependency)

Salary: Band 7: £29,777 - £33,945 p.a

Contract: 5-year fixed term

37 hours per week (Work patterns typically involve 2 evening shifts 11am - 7pm)

This role is eligible for a DBS check (please refer to Job Profile for further information)

Located in the Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth plus travel to travel to venues P01- PO6, you will report to the Team Leader (Tobacco dependency)

The Wellbeing team provide services across the PO1 - PO6 locality in a range of venues including GP practices, hospital settings and community centres so the ability the ability to drive or to be willing to utilise public transport to travel to numerous locations throughout your working week is essential for this role.

In addition, the service provides telephone/virtual support. Some of the work undertaken will be targeting our most deprived communities, who suffer the greatest health inequalities.

The Wellbeing Service supports individuals to modify behaviours, improve their health, increase life expectancy, and to reduce health inequalities for people in Portsmouth.

Your New Role

Take lead in delivering targeted population projects and supporting the planning, staff develop needs and evaluation of such projects to implement to wider team.

Assess workforce performance through observation and peer mentoring and implement workforce development interventions to individuals, as a team and to stakeholders. Keep up to date with best practice updates and cascade to the wider team. Contribute to the development of new working practices, and work alongside Management team in drafting new work procedures within the work area.

Work as part of a Team Rota covering all aspects of service delivery. Work patterns typically involve 2 evening shifts (11am - 7pm). Although primarily based within the Civic Offices you will be required to meet with clients in a variety of settings, including GP Surgeries, community venues, either in a 1-2-1 or group/clinic across Portsmouth (PO1 to PO6) to identify their support needs through conducting an initial assessment, which includes the use of validated screening tools such as Audit C and Warwick Edinburgh.

Provide ongoing support through personalised support planning specifically around smoking cessation, this may include providing brief advice and extended brief advice around other modifiable risk factors and developing/delivering a programme of support. This will range from empowering through self-help, brief advice, support for the use of pharmacotherapy (e.g., providing nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes) through to long-term engagement to support behaviour change and self-management techniques.

You will have advanced administrative or technical skills and be highly organised, to ensure correct recording and updating of all client interaction on the Services caseload management system. You will support new referral processing and triage of clients when required.

You will be required to supervise staff within small to medium-sized (up to 10) teams, which may include all roles of lower banding (this will include regular professional supervision). You will be a main point of contact from other individuals and services for advice and information on your expertise areas and be required to mentor and support the development of new staff members.

Create and deliver bespoke training packages to stakeholders. You will also support colleagues in delivering/or deliver training in MECC, Connect 5, Smoking Cessation, Alcohol Brief Advice, Weight Management Brief Advice.

Facilitate access to and provide ongoing support where needed to support broader holistic issues impacting an individual's health e.g., housing, debt, isolation, domestic abuse. You will be required to transport and safely store resources and equipment required for the role, such as stop smoking aids. Participate in and lead on Wellbeing Service Promotional events across the city.

You will collaborate with key colleagues from the local health and care systems to work together to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population. You will support PCC and its partners in the response to health protection matters, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the concomitants that arise from that.

Portsmouth City Council commit to developing its staff therefore as part of this role you will be expected to commit to ongoing learning and development. The post holder should have or work towards equivalent NVQ qualifications in post related topic areas such as health improvement and wider determinants of health within two years.

What you'll need to succeed

You will have an excellent knowledge and technical skills when providing interventions to clients in healthy weight, stop smoking (including pharmacotherapy) and alcohol reduction among population groups with higher levels of need. You will have experience of delivering training to meet the need of the service and stakeholders. A knowledge of recognised behaviour change techniques and the ability to deliver health behaviour change including guidance around smoke free homes. You will have experience in delivering targeted population projects, from planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Please read the Job Profile for the full details of this role attached below.

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme.
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

A commitment to our values

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

Telephone /Email. matthew.nineham@portsmouthcc.gov.uk tel: 023 92 834332

Application process:

Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is important, or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

Closing: 19th June 2024 @ 23:59 pm.

Interviews due to be scheduled on 2nd & 3rd July.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk