Health Inequalities Lead

City Health Care Partnership CIC; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

City Health Care Partnership CIC in Liverpool is seeking a Smokefree Services Coordinator to help people access smoking cessation support and reduce health inequalities.

You will build strong links with primary care and community partners, develop local partnerships, and support social prescribing while considering wider factors affecting health.

The role requires degree-level education, NCSTC training, and experience coordinating staff to monitor outcomes and drive service improvements.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
• National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training qualification.
• Strong knowledge of stop smoking issues, with good communication and organisation skills.
• Experience of coordinating or supervising staff and developing systems or processes.

Responsibilities

• Build effective relationships with GP practices, Primary Care Networks and community partners
• Promote Smokefree services and encourage people to access support
• Deliver stop smoking interventions and help establish community clinics
• Monitor outcomes, gather feedback and identify opportunities to improve services
• Support staff, volunteers and champions to deliver high-quality services

Skills

Stop smoking knowledge

Staff coordination

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Public health knowledge

Education

Degree-level education

NCSCT qualification

Public health qualification

Job description

Main area Stop the Start (Liverpool) Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent: 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm) Job ref 810-8358460

Site Life Bank Town Liverpool Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 09/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

You’ll support people and communities to access Smokefree services, helping reduce health inequalities and improve long-term health. You’ll build strong links with primary care and community partners, focusing support where it is needed most.

Working across the Smokefree service, you’ll help people who want to stop smoking while developing effective local partnerships. You’ll also support social prescribing and consider wider factors that can affect a person’s health.

What you’ll do:

• Build effective relationships with GP practices, Primary Care Networks and community partners
• Promote Smokefree services and encourage people to access support
• Deliver stop smoking interventions and help establish community clinics
• Monitor outcomes, gather feedback and identify opportunities to improve services
• Support staff, volunteers and champions to deliver high-quality services

Main duties of the job

What we’re looking for:

• Degree-level education or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience
• National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training qualification
• Strong knowledge of stop smoking issues, with good communication and organisation skills
• Experience of coordinating or supervising staff and developing systems or processes

We welcome applications from different backgrounds and communities, and value fairness, respect, inclusion, teamwork and ideas that help us improve.

Working for our organisation

At CHCP, we’re passionate about people, we recognise that high quality care is delivered by high quality professionals who are appreciated, respected, and supported, which is why we want to give all our colleagues the chance to shine.

Work with us and you’ll be more than just a number. Our people are our shareholders, and their thoughts and opinions are always heard;at CHCP you have a real voice.

Compassion is at the heart of our business; our colleagues work together to deliver first class healthcareto thousands of people. Local diversity demands diverse roles, that’s why we have vacancies to suit everybody. No matter your role at CHCP, we’ll support you to thrive.

CHCP CIC employees have access to an excellent range of benefits; for further information, please click on the ‘CHCP Perks and Rewards’ link.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to this job advert for more information

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge, skills and experience
• National Centre of Stop Smoking Cessation (NCSCT) training
• Professional qualification would be an advantage that is related to public health

Knowledge

• Comprehensive knowledge of issues related to Stop Smoking.
• Ability to communicate at all levels both in written form and verbally
• Knowledge of policy relating to volunteer legislation

Experience

• Experience of managing or co-ordinating staff.
• Experience of establishing new systems and processes
• Experience of working in a similar post
• Experience of research and/or audit
• Experience of working in a healthcare setting
• Experience of working with different agencies, both statutory and voluntary

City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC)is an independent, co-owned Community Interest Company providing high quality local health and care services at several sites across Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Knowsley and St Helens.

Commissioned by the NHS and local authorities, we are a socially responsible business. Our profits are re-invested into our services, our staff, and the communities we work in. We employ nearly 2,500 people and have over 1.7 million patient contacts each year across more than 50 different services.

Our vision is to lead and inspire through excellence, compassion, and expertise in all that we do, and we are looking for exceptional people to work with us to provide the highest possible care to the people who use our services.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. Should you have started the application at this point and require additional time to complete it, please contact us for support.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to support the preparation of your application. However, all information submitted must be truthful, accurate and drawn from your own experience. Applications appearing to contain plagiarised, misleading or misrepresented content, including AI-generated content presented as personal experience or fully AI generated applications, may be withdrawn from the recruitment process.

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Name James Dewhurst Job title Smokefree Opertaional Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0151 300 8420

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Address City Health Care Partnership CIC
5 Beacon Way
Hull
HU3 4AE