Lead Smoking Cessation Advisor
CurrentLead Outreach Smoking Cessation Adviser - My job role is to lead a team of staff to help deliver a stop smoking service to the county of Nottinghamshire alongside the NHS to reach a target of 52 quits a week, me and my team go out to the community in specially designated vans to make us more accessible and reach out to clients that may find it difficult going to a GP or Hospital based clinic. I advice on how to stop smoking using my CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) training and help identify triggers for clients smoking habits and also providing NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy) alongside to achieve maximum effectiveness in this role. My job as Outreach Lead requires that i go over the teams paper work to ensure it has been filled out and filed correctly. I also have to get permission to use various sites across the county and plan and organise bigger events (Stoptober, Non-smoking day). I also hold team meetings and individual one to one's to hear all problems and make work as enjoyable and as efficient as possible. I also am in charge of maintaining and driving two 3.5 tonne mobile clinics.