Smoke-Free Community Advisor & Training Lead

Change Grow Live; Lancaster; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Weekly wellbeing hour

Employee wellbeing support and pension

Discounts across shopping, leisure and

Learning and career progression

Opportunity to make a difference

Job summary

Change Grow Live is recruiting a Smoke Free Advisor to deliver stop smoking support across Lancashire, engaging with employers, healthcare professionals and community groups to promote services and referrals. You will also train professionals and volunteers, building ambassador networks and embedding cessation work within local communities.

Location is Lancashire-based with community outreach; 37.5 hours per week; permanent contract.

Qualifications

• Experience in health, wellbeing, public health, community development or social care settings.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Confident engaging with professionals, stakeholders, employers and community groups.
• Experience delivering training, presentations or workshops.
• Proactively identifying opportunities and building partnerships.
• Ability to motivate people from diverse backgrounds.
• Good IT skills and accurate record-keeping.
• Commitment to equality, inclusion and reaching health-inequality communities.
• Understanding of smoking cessation interventions or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based stop smoking support one-to-one, group or remote.
• Build relationships with businesses, healthcare providers and community groups.
• Promote Smokefree Lancashire across communities and events.
• Identify opportunities to increase referrals and service reach.
• Deliver training and awareness sessions to professionals and communities.
• Develop networks of community ambassadors to champion messages.
• Collaborate with partner agencies to improve local outcomes.
• Tailor interventions for priority and underserved groups.
• Maintain records and contribute to performance and quality improvements.
• Keep up to date with national policy and best practices.

Skills

Public health experience

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Training delivery

Partnership development

Motivate diverse groups

Organisational IT skills

Equality and inclusion

Cessation knowledge

Job description

Change Grow Live is recruiting a Smoke Free Advisor to deliver stop smoking support across Lancashire, engaging with employers, healthcare professionals and community groups to promote services and referrals. You will also train professionals and volunteers, building ambassador networks and embedding cessation work within local communities.

Location is Lancashire-based with community outreach; 37.5 hours per week; permanent contract.