One You Smokefree Adviser

Do you have the confidence to help people to quit smoking? Are you passionate about improving people’s health, and feel that you can support and enable people to make the change to a smokefree life? Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust works in partnership with local people and groups to provide a highly effective and successful stop smoking service for anyone who would like extra support to go smokefree, and we’re looking for a new member of the team to work in the Dover, Deal, Folkestone and Ashford areas.

You’ll be part of a friendly and dynamic team offering one-to-one and group sessions for people who want to quit smoking. Our philosophy is to support, encourage and enable people to go smokefree, with no judgements and no lectures, so you’ll need to be at ease with talking to people from a range of ages and backgrounds, and have the ability to provide them with the support they need. You’ll also be involved in planning sessions and promoting the service by attending community events, so confidence is key If you feel that you can make a positive contribution to the One You Kent programme we would love to hear from you. Full training will be given.

One YOU Smoke Free Advisers offer specialist support to those clients ready to quit smoking, primarily leading skilled 1-1 support via face to face appointments, telephone, and MS Teams but also offer rolling group sessions in their locality. The role will contribute and deliver against commissioned outcomes and measures working with a variety of local partners and key stakeholders.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our valuesCompassionateAspirationalResponsiveExcellent

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

We’ve signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. From 1 April 2021, the minimum salary we’ll pay is £9.90 per hour (excluding apprentices). The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate voluntarily paid by 7,000+ UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair wage. Committing to the real UK Living Wage is one way we’re delivering our pledge to be the best employer

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

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