Smoke Free Champion

Ad Warrior Ltd; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Trust is seeking a Smoking Cessation Practitioner in East Kent to help embed stop-smoking support within substance misuse services and improve health outcomes for service users.

You will deliver Very Brief Advice, support access to Nicotine Replacement Therapy, and use Power BI dashboards to monitor progress while collaborating with staff and partner organisations to embed cessation into care planning and continuity of care.

Qualifications

• Experience in substance misuse and/or mental health services is desirable.
• Ability to work with diverse populations and partner organisations.

Responsibilities

• Using Power BI data dashboards to monitor smoking status and identify intervention opportunities.
• Delivering Very Brief Advice and smoking cessation interventions to service users.
• Supporting access to Nicotine Replacement Therapy and providing behavioural support.
• Delivering training to staff to increase confidence in cessation advice.
• Developing stop-smoking campaigns and awareness activities for target populations.
• Monitoring outcomes and completing monthly reporting per service requirements.
• Collaborating with local stop-smoking providers to embed referral pathways.

Job description

Smoke Free Champion

Location: East Kent

Salary: £26,000 per annum

**Please be advised this position is a 12 month fixed-term contract**

About the Role

Are you passionate about helping people improve their health and wellbeing and making a real difference to the lives of people affected by substance misuse?

The Forward Trust's East Kent Community Drug and Alcohol Service is looking for a Smoking Cessation Practitioner to join our team and help improve health outcomes for people accessing specialist drug and alcohol support.

Smoking rates are significantly higher among people experiencing substance misuse and other health inequalities. In this role, you will help integrate effective stop-smoking support into routine substance misuse pathways, raise awareness of the health harms associated with smoking and vaping, and increase access to high-quality smoking cessation support.

You will work directly with service users, colleagues and partner organisations across East Kent to ensure that smoking cessation is embedded into care planning, risk assessments and continuity of care.

You will also play an important role in strengthening the wider workforce by supporting staff to confidently deliver very brief advice and health improvement conversations.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Using Power BI data dashboards to monitor smoking status and identify opportunities for intervention among people accessing substance misuse treatment.
• Delivering Very Brief Advice (VBA) and smoking cessation interventions to service users.
• Supporting service users to access Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and providing behavioural support.
• Delivering training and increasing staff confidence in providing smoking cessation advice.
• Developing and promoting stop-smoking campaigns, events and awareness-raising activities aimed at target populations.
• Monitoring outcomes and completing monthly reporting in line with service and commissioner requirements.
• Working with local stop-smoking providers to develop and embed effective referral pathways and ensure appropriate outcome data is captured.
• Embedding smoking cessation into care plans and risk assessments.
• Working with prison and hospital settings to ensure smoking cessation support is incorporated into continuity of care plans.
• Identifying and addressing barriers to engagement, including transport, digital exclusion, low confidence and previous negative experiences of services.
• Improving referral rates to local stop-smoking services and supporting reductions in smoking prevalence among people accessing substance misuse services, particularly in areas of high deprivation.
• Strengthening partnership working to ensure service users receive consistent advice and seamless support.
• Working within existing outreach models to engage people experiencing homelessness and other underserved populations.
• Supporting consistent smoke-free messaging across community venues and bringing cessation support closer to where people live.

The role will contribute to Forward Trust and local commissioner targets, with a strong focus on measuring outcomes and demonstrating positive health improvements.

Flexibility is essential, as the role may involve some evening and weekend working, as well as travel to different projects and community settings across East Kent.

About You

We are looking for someone who is compassionate, motivated and confident in supporting people to make positive changes to their health and wellbeing.

You will have experience of working within substance misuse and/or mental health services, with the ability to buil