This position will work a hybrid schedule which includes a combination of working both onsite at Greenwich Drive and remote.
UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment : Apply by 06 / 03 / 2024 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor.
Special Selection Applicants : Apply by 06 / 12 / 2024. Eligible Special Selection clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.
This position has recently been accreted by the UPTE HX union and will be a part of that union moving forward. DESCRIPTION Kick It California (KIC), formerly the California Smokers' Helpline, is a statewide counseling / coaching service operated through UCSD Moores Cancer Center.
The program was established in 1992 and currently provides telephone-based cessation services in English and Spanish for all California residents, and through the Asian Smokers' Quitline, counseling / coaching in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Korean, and Vietnamese for the whole country (N 30,000 enrollees / year).
The Helpline became the first in the nation to offer free, telephone-based services for tobacco users wanting to quit. This program has served as a model for similar services that are now available in all 50 states.
Since its inception, KIC has provided free, personalized and confidential services to Californians from diverse communities throughout the state.
KIC also provides training and technical assistance to a wide variety of organizations throughout California to increase their capacity in tobacco cessation, including health professionals working in tobacco control, public health, health education, behavioral health, health care, and health system administration.
In addition to telephone based coaching, KIC also offers several technology-based interventions including texting, chat, mobile app, and videos.
KIC serves a range of tobacco users and non- tobacco users from varying ethnic, socioeconomic and psychiatric health backgrounds and includes populations such as teens, American Indians, LGBTQ tobacco users, tobacco users with mental health conditions, First 5 clients (pregnant tobacco users and smokers living with children 0-5), nonsmoking family members and friends of smokers (proxies) and those using e- cigarettes and vaping nicotine.
KIC is renowned for its quality intervention research that has consisted of large, randomized trials testing various counseling / coaching protocols designed to help tobacco users quit.
These trials have repeatedly proven the effectiveness of the standard telephone counseling protocol as well as more targeted protocols such as for pregnant smokers, teens, and Asian- language speakers.
KIC has also been the setting for conducting research on novel interventions such as using financial incentives to increase counseling adherence among low income smokers, helping smokers quit through intervention with non- smokers, or determining the role of nicotine replacement therapy in helping smokers quit.
KIC plans to expand services to offer cannabis cessation to both youth and adults in California. Initial plans for expansion are to provide cannabis cessation through an existing KIC program, Youth Vaping Alternative Program Education (YVAPE).
The Coaching Services & Clinical Lead is a licensed mental health clinician who will serve as the project manager for KIC's expansion to cannabis cessation.
The Coaching Services & Clinical Lead will apply behavioral change theory with an in-depth understanding of the modification of addictive behaviors in the Quitline setting.
The Coaching Services & Clinical Lead will serve as a project manager for the cannabis cessation project and oversee all aspects of implementation, evaluation, and quality assurance.
This position is under the general direction of the Clinical Director and the Coaching Services & Clinical Lead will work closely with the Project Manager for YVAPE.
- Under general direction from KIC's Clinical Director, the Coaching Services & Clinical Lead will : 1) Assist with creation, evaluation, and quality assurance of cannabis cessation protocol for youth;
- 2) Assist with client recruitment and liaison with outside organizations that refer clients to our cannabis cessation services;
- 3) Maintain a clinical caseload, provide clinical consultation to Helpline coaches and supervisors; 4) Provide triage, emergency care and consultation;
- 5) Supervise risk management / crisis intervention and mandated reporting for KIC clients; 6) Assist with hiring, training and consultation for clinical staff;
7) Help develop, manage, assess and maintain coaching and tech-based cessation interventions for tobacco smoking, nicotine vaping, other tobacco products, and cannabis; 8) Offer