Band 6 Tobacco Dependency Advisor – Service lead

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Job summary

Join Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Tobacco Dependency Advisor. In this key role, you will lead tobacco dependency interventions, support service users through their smoke-free journey, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to enhance smoking cessation efforts in mental health settings.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in smoking cessation.
• Tobacco Dependency Practitioner qualification required.
• Experience in managing a team and mental health settings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver 1:1 and group smoking cessation interventions.
• Support mental health staff in providing smoking cessation interventions.
• Work alongside various stakeholders to ensure continuity of services.

Skills

Tobacco Dependency Knowledge

Training and Mentoring

Communication

Team Working

Problem Solving

Education

Degree level in healthcare or equivalent experience

Recognized Teaching Qualification

Level 2/3 Smoking Cessation Competencies

Job description

Employer Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Newbridge House Town Birmingham Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/06/2025 23:59

Band 6 Tobacco Dependency Advisor – Service lead

Band 6

Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Job overview

The Community Tobacco Dependency advisor – service lead is a new role to the trust. It will require skills in navigating services and establishing new relationships within BSMHFT clinical staff to ensure a smooth service user journey through the trust’s community smokefree pathway.

This will require working with the Project Lead - Tobacco Dependency in the best approach for the service and its users. This role will require a creative and flexible attitude to work with service users who are in mental health community settings.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisors will assist in providing specialist advice and support to mental health service users around tobacco addiction and provide evidence-based approaches in line with national guidance and good practice to help them go smoke free.

The post holder with work across our community mental health settings and support the service users through their smoke free journey.

They will help train trust staff to provide stop smoking interventions establishing the systems and processes to facilitate this and have accurate documentation to report interventions and quit attempts.

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

o 1:1 and group smoking cessation interventions

o Work in a recognised processes to allow staff and service users to access evidence-based stop smoking interventions and record results

o Working with partners (with our inpatient Tobacco dependency service, community tobacco dependency service and pharmacists) to ensure continuity of stop smoking support.

o Provide support and training to mental health staff to provide smoking cessation intervention

o Liaison with the project lead to support services users who have recently discharged to quit.

o Ensuring that service users have access to psychological and provision of pharmacological support to help them to cope with tobacco dependence

Work in partnership with the regional team(BCC) to deliver evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment in line with the Department of Health, NHS England, and NICE guidance, and NCSCT best practice guidance

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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.

Person specification

Training and Qualification

• Educated to Degree level and post grad diploma in a healthcare related subject or equivalent minimum 2 years’ experience in smoking cessation
• A Tobacco Dependency Practitioner with knowledge of tobacco dependency and barriers to stopping smoking
• Recognised Teaching and assessing/mentoring qualification (or equivalent)
• Level 2/3 Smoking Cessation competencies plus Mental health module and evidence of experience in delivering this
• Evidence of continuous professional and management development
• Evidence of experience in delivering smoking cessation
• Recognized leadership qualification or equivalent

Experience

• Relevant (or working towards) skills teaching, coaching skills, delivery of tobacco dependency evidence to a variety of audiences
• Ability to communicate to healthcare workers and service users
• Passionate about the smoke free agenda
• Awareness of data collection requirements for reporting
• Experience of working in a mental health setting
• Experience of managing a team
• Experience of the Rio patient record
• An understanding of Microsoft programmes

Skills/Knowledge

• Evidence of multi-professional team working
• To work with lead to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support with the deliver a Tobacco Dependency Service within the Trust
• Ability to communicate the benefits of stopping smoking to mental health service users, the challenges involved and how these can be overcome
• Willing to adaptable to change and constantly striving to improve and deliver high standards.
• Demonstrates confidence and resilience in overcoming obstacles and is solution focussed
• Ability to work using initiative and work with minimal supervision to achieve own objectives and prioritise their own workload

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.

Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust. The Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.

All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your second week with us.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, please ensure that you check if this role meets the eligibility criteria for sponsorship. Non UK /Republic of Ireland candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) . The minimum salary threshold for a Health and Social Care is £25,000 and for the Skilled Worker route is £38,700. If the starting salary for this role is below this, we will not be able to provide sponsorship.

Relocation expenses may be reimbursed subject to eligibility. The policy provides for reimbursement up to £8,000.

Please note - if you are applying for a role within Police custody, due to Police Vetting requirements you must have been a UK resident for the last years.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Hanan Khan Job title Project lead - Tobacco dependency service Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07985883487