Stop Smoking Advisor (LW)

NHS Scotland; Wideopen; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Health Promotion Fife is seeking a Stop Smoking Advisor to support the delivery of NHS Fife’s Stop Smoking Service and contribute to the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership’s Smoking Cessation Local Delivery Plan Target for 2026/27.

This full-time post will play an important role in improving the health and wellbeing of people across Fife by delivering high-quality, evidence-based stop smoking support in line with national and local tobacco control strategies, policy and service priorities.

Qualifications

• Must have professional or academic qualification or significant stop smoking experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions across Fife, focusing on priority and inequalities groups.
• Increase engagement at community level, especially in deprived communities and with health inequality groups.
• Undertake client assessments, make pharmacotherapy decisions, provide ongoing support and complete 4- and 12-week follow-ups.
• Use effective engagement to support referrals from four priority groups into the Stop Smoking Service.

Skills

Health promotion

Behaviour change

Community engagement

Referral pathways

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Job description

Health Promotion Fife is seeking a Stop Smoking Advisor to support the delivery of NHS Fife’s Stop Smoking Service and contribute to the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership’s Smoking Cessation Local Delivery Plan Target for 2026/27.

This full-time post will play an important role in improving the health and wellbeing of people across Fife by delivering high-quality, evidence-based stop smoking support in line with national and local tobacco control strategies, policy and service priorities.

Working closely with the Tobacco Lead, you will deliver targeted stop smoking interventions, support community engagement activity, raise awareness of the Stop Smoking Service and strengthen referral pathways across a range of settings, including communities, primary care and workplaces.

You Will Be Responsible For

Delivering evidence-based stop smoking interventions across Fife, with a focus on people and families within priority and inequalities groups.

Increasing engagement at community level, particularly within the most deprived communities and with groups experiencing health inequalities.

Undertaking client assessments, making appropriate pharmacotherapy decisions, providing ongoing client support and completing 4-week and 12-week follow-up outcomes.

Using effective engagement approaches to support referrals from the four priority groups into the Stop Smoking Service.

You should be able to demonstrate an understanding of health inequalities and how these relate to tobacco use and vaping. Experience of delivering behaviour change interventions, along with knowledge and skills in health improvement, would be desirable.

You should hold a relevant professional or academic qualification or have significant experience of providing stop smoking support on a one-to-one and group basis.

Please note that this is a non-nursing post.

For informal enquires, please contact by email Patricia Allan ([e-mail]) or talk to Patricia on Tel: [phone] Mobile - 07845 410708.

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Please note the salary is pro rata for part time hours.

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