Specialist Smoking Cessation Advisor

2 weeks ago


London Borough of Redbridge, United Kingdom Via Westminster Drug Project Full time

Job Summary

Are you an experienced smoking cessation advisor looking for a new challenge to support pathways in secondary care?

This is a new role for Redbridge Quits Smoking - Via’s Specialist Smoking Cessation Service for the London Borough of Redbridge. Our service is co-located in Ilford with other Via colleagues from our adult and young people’s substance misuse and sexual health services.

This role has been specifically created to support more pathways and clinics in secondary care. We are seeking an experienced smoking cessation advisor who is committed to improving people’s physical health and wellbeing and strong partnership working to provide effective, evidence-based advice and support that will help them stop smoking.

The Role

The Specialist Smoking Cessation Advisor will:

Support the team leader in developing and implementing new clinics and satellites within secondary care settings to both patients and NHS staff. Deliver secondary care clinics and satellites according to evidence-based (NICE, NCST) guidelines, including behavioural, pharmacological and ‘swap to stop’ pathways. Maintain positive working relationships and innovation with secondary care partners to ensure the clinics are promoted and managed effectively. Contribute to the service meeting key performance indicators including quit dates, 4 week quits, and 12 week quits.  Complete record-keeping on Quit Manager and maintain other records as needed to evaluate outcomes from secondary care clinics. Support other activities of the team that promote the service and the benefits of quitting smoking.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of expanding a service to deliver specialist advice and support and develop secondary care partnerships to improve the health and wellbeing of Redbridge residents.

This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week. Our usual hours are Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00 with some occasional evening and weekend work as required on a rota within the team.

Location

The Redbridge Quits Smoking service is based in Ilford, close to the station but this role requires regular travel to secondary care locations across the borough of Redbridge.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via, including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks, and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

For an informal chat about the role, contact Kawaldeep Singh, Team Leader on .

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 10 July 2024 at midnight.

Interviews will take place at our Ilford Chambers hub on Monday 22 July between 10am and 2pm.

We only accept applications at using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit . Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all Via posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.



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