Provider: Health Service Executive
Address: Health Promotion Service, 1st floor, Unit 4, Nexus Building, Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Dublin 15
Web:
Contact: Fiona Walsh Maher
Title:
Email: fiona.walsh4@hse.ie
Telephone: 021 4921641
Online
Providing behavioural support, either alone or in combination with pharmacological interventions, increases the chances of long-term smoking cessation and should continue to be provided to all smokers who would like to avail of this option to help them quit (HIQA, 2017).
The HSE provides an online training and assessment programme designed to develop the competencies (knowledge & skills) required by specialist tobacco cessation practitioners. The training programme provides staff with a good understanding of the factors involved in smoking and smoking cessation and will link this theoretical understanding to professional practice. The training programme includes the information required to pass the practitioner assessment and receive full HSE/NCSCT certification as a tobacco cessation specialist practitioner. Practitioners accessing this intensive smoking cessation training programme are recommended to firstly complete the level 1 Making Every Contact Count online training.
The HSE intensive smoking cessation training and assessment programme was developed by the National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training UK (NCSCT) and is based on research into what competencies (skills and knowledge) are required by smoking cessation specialists. NCSCT carried out research to identify a set of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) that are used when providing behavioural support for smoking cessation. This research established which of these techniques has the strongest evidence. The research was supplemented by a systematic analysis of guidance documents on competences required for the role of smoking cessation specialists/counsellors.
See the HSE webpage outlining information about the training https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/tobaccocontrol/intensive-smoking-cessation-training/
The link to the Irish online intensive tobacco cessation training course is at https://elearning.ncsct.co.uk/ireland
Our specialty modules give practitioners working in specialised areas the additional knowledge and skills to work with particular groups of smokers. The courses are open to NCSCT Certified Stop Smoking Practitioners, who have taken the training and passed the assessment. If you would like to undertake the pregnancy and mental health specialty modules, please click on the links on the right. In addition we have three training modules that are open to all:
This course is designed for health professionals.
See website for more details: www.hse.ie/bitobacco
n.a.