Band 4 Tobacco Dependency Advisor - Community

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Birmingham seeks a Tobacco Dependency Advisor to provide behavioral support and treatment for tobacco smoking. The successful candidate will assist in the daily running of the Community Tobacco Dependency Service, ensuring safe and quality care. Applicants should have relevant health qualifications and experience working with mental health conditions. This position offers a salary between £27,485 to £30,162 annually, pro rata.

Qualifications

• Understanding of the drivers of ill health and mental health.
• Experience of working within a mental health setting or with people with mental health conditions.
• Knowledge of tobacco dependency treatments available.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based stop smoking service.
• Support service users with tobacco dependence.
• Liaison with teams for continuity of tobacco support.

Skills

Computer literacy skills including email and Microsoft Office

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to develop the skills of others

Ability to organise and prioritise workload

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Higher Apprenticeship in Health and Social Care

Good level of secondary education for maths and English at GCSE

NCSCT Smoking cessation level 2 training

Job description

Overview

Band 4 Tobacco Dependency Advisor - Community

The closing date is 08 October 2025.

The principal role of the post holder is to work with the Trust's Tobacco Dependency Service team and Tobacco Dependency Project Lead to provide behavioural support and treatment in relation to tobacco smoking for our community service users.

They will support the day to day running of the Community Tobacco Dependency Service to ensure safe, well organised and evidenced based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service. This will include an understanding of working with service users subject to the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act legislation.

They will support community teams to develop a smokefree culture and to adhere to the Trust wide Smokefree policy, by supporting staff with smoking related issues, providing tobacco dependency related resources and signposting patients and staff to appropriate information and services alongside promoting training.

They will support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency, recording and reporting activities and results contributing to achieving all performance indicators, essential standards, and quality outcomes.

Travel is required within the designated service location, including regional travel. The Tobacco Treatment Service will operate five days a week.

Main duties of the job

The advisor will work with the team and mental health staff to provide an evidence-based stop smoking service by delivering:

• 1:1 and group tobacco dependency interventions
• Work in recognised processes to allow staff and service users to access evidence-based tobacco dependency interventions and record results.
• The systematic identification of the smoking status of all service users within CMHT teams.
• The systematic offering of advice, pharmacotherapy, and behavioural support to all current smokers
• Working with partners to ensure continuity of tobacco dependency support.
• Work in a culture whereby all service users are offered the opportunity to stop smoking and receive support to achieve a quit status.
• Maintain their own continuing professional development and be up to date with all required training.
• Liaison with the service lead to support services users who have recently discharged from In-patient settings to quit.
• Ensuring that service users have access to psychological and provision of pharmacological support to help them to cope with tobacco dependence.
• Act as a subject matter resource, advising services of the most appropriate support they can direct their service users to; based on knowledge of each local community stop smoking service provision.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

We are unable to support applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work the United Kingdom (UK)

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Higher Apprenticeship in Health and Social Care or an equivalent qualification in a relevant health related subject, or a commitment to working towards and further experience to diploma level.
• Good level of secondary education for maths and English at GCSE or equivalent level.
• NCSCT Smoking cessation e-learning Smoking cessation level 2 training

Experience

• Understanding of the drivers of ill health and mental health.
• Experience of working within a mental health setting or with people with mental health conditions or Learning Disabilities.
• Evidence of previous team working.
• Knowledge of tobacco dependency treatments available.
• Experience working with people in a behaviour change context.
• Experience of running groups.

Skills/Knowledge

• Computer literacy skills including email and Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, and Power point).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to develop the skills of others and to contribute to a learning environment.
• Ability to challenge the gaps in knowledge.
• Ability to accept delegation and work without direct supervision.
• Ability to use carbon monoxide monitors.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust's core values.
• Ability to communicate across various levels of staff groups.
• Ability to deliver training sessions.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

£27,485 to £30,162 a year, pro rata