Smoking Cessation Outreach Worker

Job Posted: 17 July 2025

**Contract Term**:Fixed Term

**Location**:Ryde, Isle of Wight

**Contract Type**:Part time

**Salary**:£13.30 an hour

**Industries**:Health & Social Care**

**Closing Date**: 31 July 2025
**Smoking Cessation Outreach Worker**

**The closing date is 31 July 2025**

**Job summary**

**Salary: £13.30 ph (£15,600 pro rata)**

**Hours: 3 days - 22.5 hours per week**

**Fixed Term (until 31.12.26 in line with project funding currently secured)**

One Wight Health is seeking a compassionate, proactive, and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Smokefree Outreach Worker. In this fully telephone-based role, you'll be at the forefront of supporting patients to make positive health changes and take their first steps towards a smokefree future.

Are you passionate about being able to make a difference to people's lives, including their health and happiness?

Can you use your excellent communication skills to educate, influence and motivate others to stop smoking?

Applications are clearly welcomed from anyone that is already qualified via the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT), has previously undertaken either Very Brief Advice (VBA), Making Every Contact Count (MECC), or other motivational interviewing training, but if not, you will be supported in becoming professionally certified.

**Main duties of the job**

Working in line with national and local guidance and cessation best practice, the post holder will work as a Stop Smoking Outreach worker across selected practices based on the Isle of Wight. They will support people across the Island who want to stop smoking or using tobacco, contributing to the reduction of smoking rates and thus improving the health outcome of the local population.

The postholder will be expected to deliver support to those recorded as having an active smoking status by their GP, and provide them with brief quitting advice, telephone support and onward referral to the core stop smoking service. Making and monitoring referrals, whilst updating patient records with the latest smoking status information.

The postholder will undertake local promotion of the outreach offer and engage with local partners, stakeholders and health professionals including GP surgeries. The postholder will be responsible for the accurate recording of patient information to improve health and update GP smoking status records.

You will work alongside other healthcare professionals and be part of embedding these services, working with key partners in Isle of Wight Council and community stop smoking services.

This will be a rewarding role where you will be making a life-changing difference to individuals, and families and their communities.

**About us**

We support our member GP practices to help them deliver the best possible care to patients on the Island. We host a team of Social Prescribers, Health and Wellbeing Coaches and Care Co-ordinators under a Primary Care Contract that support our Island practices.

We aim to do that by providing centralised services that enable GPs to enhance their offer of support to patients.

We also provide direct support to GPs and practice staff to enable them to develop, lead and manage their practices more effectively and efficiently on a day-day basis. For example, providing training and education, mentoring, recruitment support, resources, access to specialist roles and sharing best practice.

We also help bid for and secure additional funding from NHS England, where it becomes available, to help support new initiatives that help practices to meet their patients care needs and we work to support general practice/primary care, to make sure it has a voice within the wider healthcare system as it develops plans for the future care for our population.

Job description

Job responsibilities
- Promote the health and wellbeing of people, refer to the stop smoking service, offer stop smoking brief advice, information and support.
- Proactively contact patients recorded as smokers to verify and update their smoking status, ensuring accurate clinical coding.
- Work with patients to change their behaviour to improve their health by stopping smoking and, on occasions, support significant others e.g. partners/ parents / family members who smoke.
- Use motivational interviewing techniques and Very Brief Advice to encourage quit attempts and refer patients to smoking cessation support services.
- Build strong, empathetic connections with patients over the phone, supporting behavioural change and helping reduce barriers to quitting smoking.
- To manage the transfer of individuals between agencies and the local community stop smoking service.
- Responsible for management of day-to-day workload.
- Work with a wide range of patients as part of their day-to-day work, including those with communication difficulties and adapt information and support provided accordingly.
- Provide information to people about stopping smoking, minimising