Smoking Cessation Advisor

Job Description

NHS Band 3 Salary:  £25,760 - £27,476 per annum

Hours per Week:  full time 37.5 

Contract type: Permanent

Are you passionate about working with people to make key lifestyle changes to improve their health and wellbeing? 

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Medicine as a new Smoking Cessation service is being set up.

We have vacancies for a Tobacco dependency advisor.  This role will focus on providing inpatients with support to help them stop smoking.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals with excellent communication skills to be a Smoking Cessation Advisor. Experience of working in an NHS/Health care setting would be beneficial or a role where frequent engagement with the public was key.

You will be responsible for undertaking face to face smoking cessation assessments with inpatients and liaising with the clinical and community teams involved in the patients’ care and onward cessation journeys. Providing education to trust staff and undertaking smoking cessation roadshows when necessary. Training will be provided, but the post holder will be expected to computer literate (word, outlook, excel).

Key responsibilities: 

• Deliver smoking cessation services to inpatients within Medicine Care group wards, reporting to the Band 4  Supervisor..
• Establish and maintain communication with patients, relatives and carers, working in partnership with the multidisciplinary team to provide holistic patient care.
• Contribute to own personal development.
• Assist in maintaining own and others’ health, safety and security.
• Ensure own actions help to maintain quality and patient safety.
• Assist with a wide range of administrative services to the smoking cessation team.
• Assisting in the transfer of patients to community smoking cessation services.
• Access a number of computer systems to track patient’s progress and current status in treatment pathway.
• Undertake data entry onto local and national databases and updating of spreadsheets.
• Dealing promptly with a wide range of enquiries from staff and patients.
• Ability to work flexibly and unsociable hours to meet the demands of the service.

For full details of this role, please refer to the enclosed Job Description

Qualifications

Essential

• Standard GCSE/NVQ.

Desirable

• NCSCT Level 2 Training.

Experience

Essential

• Customer care experience.
• Experience of working in an NHS environment.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• The ability to work using own initiative and without supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to use a personal computer with knowledge of word processing, and Windows applications.
• Customer service background.
• Attention to detail and able to work to deadlines.
• Time management.

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS Trust environment and NHS software.

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026