Secondary Care Tobacco Treatment Advisor

Secondary Care Tobacco Treatment Advisor Salary:£25,000 – £26,000 per year Hours:37.5 hours per week Contract Type:Maternity Cover – until March 2027 Closing Date:10th of December 2025 Please quote job reference: ABL 825 Role Purpose: To work with the onsite tobacco treatment service and specialist to provide behavioural support and treatment in relation to tobacco smoking. To support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency To support the day to day running of the onsite tobacco treatment service to ensure safe, well organised and evidence based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service. Provide support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of smoking cessation service. Key Duties and Responsibilities: In this role, you will independently organise and prioritise your workload within a busy team, ensuring high standards and a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. You will take referrals, including self-referrals, and work with patients to identify the most appropriate tobacco dependency treatment pathway while engaging individuals and groups from target communities. A key part of the role involves supporting clients to make informed health choices, encouraging sustainable behaviour change, and delivering evidence-based stop smoking interventions through one-to-one sessions, groups, drop-ins, telephone, or online support in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme. You will work collaboratively with professionals and partner agencies to embed smoking cessation into routine care, maximise health outcomes, and reduce inequalities, while providing high-quality, flexible, and cost-effective services across community and healthcare settings. The post also requires maintaining accurate, GDPR-compliant records, managing a client caseload via appropriate ICT systems, completing administrative tasks such as contact calls and appointment coordination, and supporting the development and improvement of services. You will help organise service workload, attend stakeholder meetings, complete relevant training, and contribute to the development of local referral pathways. Travel within the service area (and occasional regional travel) is required, and as the service operates seven days a week, some flexibility will be necessary. This varied and rewarding position sits under the line management of the Project Lead and offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact through compassionate, proactive, and well-organised support to clients. Skills and Competencies Required: Understand smoking addiction and the impact it has on peoples’ health Trained (or willing to train) as an NCSCT certified stop smoking practitioner Positive and proactive outlook with the ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the highest standards and outcomes. Highly organised with the ability to work to deadlines and effectively manage a client caseload To be flexible and adaptable in service delivery; based on the needs of our clients and commissioners Good communication skills: including active listening, interviewing, written and verbal communication either face to face, over the phone or across digital channels. With the ability to adapt the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, colleagues and stakeholders, at all levels. Build strong relationships; foster trust and co-operation with clients, colleagues, partners, and community stakeholders Demonstrable ability to achieve individual and team targets Quality driven; you deliver high standards against quality standards and actively seek to improve them. Be open and responsive to new ideas and perspectives. Employee Benefits: Birthday Day off Flexible Annual Leave scheme 37.5 hours working week Flu jabs Blue Light Card Cycle to work scheme Leadership and staff away days Training and Development Please note that we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role #J-18808-Ljbffr