Breathe Smoking Cessation Trainer / Volunteer lead

This post will be based at Breathe's Camden office and will form an intrinsic part of the team. The post holder will work flexibly across the boroughs of Camden and Islington to deliver Smoking Cessation training and raise awareness of the service, supporting the referral process. They will identify and train a wide range of stakeholders, including clinicians and other health and social care professionals, as well as various community groups and the general population.
In addition, the post holder will be responsible for recruiting, training and supporting volunteers in the Stop Smoking Service.
The post will contribute social value to the residents of Camden and Islington by delivering training and other interventions in community venues and groups, empowering the community's response to smoking related issues., + Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project across Camden and Islington and act as a single point of contact, ensuring delivery against timelines, escalating issues and reporting highlights within the governance process as appropriate.
+ Promote and deliver audience-appropriate training on evidence-based care and disseminate best practice, often working alone.
+ Assist to develop, pilot and implement an online Breathe modular level 2 training.
+ Design, develop, review, implement and evaluate the training requirements regularly with support of others, to ensure that the needs of clients, stakeholders and services can be met.
+ Lead on the implementation at local levels of national Stop Smoking campaigns and World Days/Weeks/Months (e.g. Stoptober, NSD, Lung awareness month etc).
+ Maintain accurate records of trainings, collect data and provide written reports as required.

Working for our organisation
The Breathe Stop Smoking Service is committed to providing accessible, evidenced based services that treat tobacco dependence, effectively helping smokers to stop smoking, reduce smoking health harms and inequality and ensure residents stay healthy, giving children the best start in life.
The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) is preparing to make a new contribution to making England a 'Smokefree society', by 2030 and sets out the Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health with several recommendations for the Tobacco Control Plan. In addition, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NCE) Guidance NG209 also sets out what is required of stop smoking interventions including the provision of behavioural and licensed products such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and prescribed stop smoking medications available for our residents.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings., + Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project across Camden and Islington and act as a single point of contact, ensuring delivery against timelines, escalating issues and reporting highlights within the governance process as appropriate.
+ Promote and deliver audience-appropriate training on evidence-based care and disseminate best practice, often working alone.
+ Assist to develop, pilot and implement an online Breathe modular level 2 training.
+ Design, develop, review, implement and evaluate the training requirements regularly with support of others, to ensure that the needs of clients, stakeholders and services can be met.
+ Lead on the implementation at local levels of national Stop Smoking campaigns and World Days/Weeks/Months (e.g. Stoptober, NSD, Lung awareness month etc).
+ Maintain accurate records of trainings, collect data and provide written reports as required.
+ Produce robust and realistic project plans, using appropriate methodology and leading to the implementation of actions and outcomes required to deliver the projects in line with agreed timescales.
+ Maintain a full and accurate audit trail of key decisions, actions and outputs, including but not limited to risk and issue logs, project/milestone plans, update/highlight reports, and action plans, and to adjust, if targets/deadlines are not met.
+ Participate in the evaluation of the training and produce documents, reports and presentations on a regular basis.
+ Link in with the GP/pharmacy lead to ensure the smooth and robust delivery of level 2 training.
+ Review the project status regularly to ensure that time scales and other requirements of the project plan are being met.
+ Ensure that the perspectives of a wide range of stakeholders are integrated into the work of the project, working with teams and managers to identify training needs and develop new ways of delivering training.
+ Undertake extensive community engagement and community involvement, including to identify training needs and consider co-production.
+ Promote the service and facilitate referrals as required.
+ Manage internal and external barriers to engagement with training
+ Be self-motivated and able to work on their own. The post holder will be required to work autonomously with minimal supervision, managing own workload and schedule
+ Recruit, train and lead the volunteers for Camden and Islington Stop Smoking Service
+ Supervise, support and provide adequate training to the volunteers to ensure they are equipped with appropriate skills and well managed to carry out their roles.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
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CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
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