ED Quit Smoking Advisor – Immediate Impact

Provide CIC; Colney; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Provide CIC is recruiting a Tobacco Dependence Advisor to support the Emergency Department Stop Smoking Service across the Norfolk Acute Trusts. The post is based at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with flexible duties across James Paget University Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn.

You will engage adults who smoke, deliver VBA, provide vape starter kits, and monitor progress within agreed SOPs.

Responsibilities

• To promote the new service in Norfolk Acute Trusts
• Proactively identify and engage with adult patients and visitors attending the three Emergency Departments in Norfolk who smoke and deliver Very Brief Advice (VBA) informing and encouraging them to engage with the smoking cessation services on offer.
• Providing immediate, evidence‑based, non‑judgemental advice and support using brief intervention models tailored to the Emergency Department setting.
• Offering free vape starter kits to support immediate quit attempts, consistent with national harm reduction guidance.
• Recording engagement, quit attempts, and referrals to inform performance monitoring, service evaluation, and reporting.
• Maintaining contact with the patient, contacting them within 48 hours of engagement and at least once a week prior to the 28‑day quit date up to 6 weeks.
• Working to monthly targets to ensure that KPIs are met and adapt and target delivery in line with projected outcomes for long term success.
• Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services. We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people's homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England. A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times: Vision: Transforming Lives Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform li

Job description

Provide CIC is recruiting a Tobacco Dependence Advisor to support the Emergency Department Stop Smoking Service across the Norfolk Acute Trusts. The post is based at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with flexible duties across James Paget University Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn.

You will engage adults who smoke, deliver VBA, provide vape starter kits, and monitor progress within agreed SOPs.