Tobacco Dependency Advisor

Provide CIC; Gorleston-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Provide CIC seeks a Tobacco Dependence Advisor to support the Emergency Department Stop Smoking Service across Norfolk’s three acute hospital Trusts. Based at James Paget University Hospital, the post may require movement across sites and flexible working within the Trust.

You will proactively engage adult smokers, deliver Very Brief Advice, offer vape starter kits, and record engagement data. The role emphasises compassionate, patient‑centred support and collaboration with ED teams to meet

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Very Brief Advice to patients.
• Experience in health promotion and lifestyle services.
• Excellent communication and empathetic patient-facing skills.
• Ability to work flexibly across Norfolk Trust sites.

Responsibilities

• Promote the new service in Norfolk Acute Trusts.
• Identify and engage adult patients and visitors who smoke and deliver VBA.
• Provide non-judgemental, evidence-based brief interventions in ED.
• Offer free vape starter kits to support quit attempts.
• Record engagement, quit attempts, and referrals for monitoring.
• Maintain contact with patients within 48 hours and weekly up to 6 weeks.
• Work toward monthly KPIs and adapt delivery to projected outcomes.

Skills

VBA delivery

Motivational interviewing

MECC

Health promotion

Tools

PharmOutcomes

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join us as a Tobacco Dependence Advisor (TDA), supporting the delivery of the new Emergency Department Stop Smoking Service operating within Norfolk's three acute hospital Trusts. You will be based at James Paget University Hospital. Although the post will have a designated base, the service operates across Norfolk's three acute hospital sites, and the post holder may be required to work flexibly across the Trust throughout the contract. This may include travelling to and working from different sites, such as:

• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn

The aim of this role is to proactively identify and engage adult smokers, including both patients and accompanying adults. You will provide brief interventions, offer advice, supply a vape kit, and deliver evidence-based support to help individuals begin their journey toward stopping smoking. This role is ideal for a Health Care Assistant seeking a new challenge, or someone with Lifestyle Services experience and a passion for improving public health. We also welcome applications from individuals who bring lived experience of tobacco dependence or behaviour change, as this insight can greatly enhance empathetic, patient-centred support. If you enjoy patient-facing work and are motivated by helping people achieve meaningful, long-term health improvements, this is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference.

• 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 lives by treating, caring and educating people. Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men's Networks. We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups.

• Reduce smoking prevalence and smoking-related health inequalities by providing evidence-based smoking cessation support to adult smokers attending Emergency Departments (EDs) in Norfolk.
• Reduce future Emergency Department attendances and hospital admissions linked to smoking-related conditions.
• Increase the number of quit attempts and successful smoking cessation outcomes.
• Contribute to improved population health outcomes and reduced burden on the NHS through early intervention.
• Support the Government's ambition for Smokefree communities by 2030.
• Reduce inequalities in smoking prevalence and tobacco-related harm among disadvantaged populations.
• Embed the smoking cessation offer as part of a whole-system approach in collaboration with acute, community, and public health partners.
• Manage a caseload of participants identified as part of the Emergency Department Stop Smoking Service independently
• Using techniques such as motivational interviewing and Making Every Contact Count (MECC) to support sustained behaviour change.
• Ensuring inclusive engagement with individuals and communities experiencing the highest burden of smoking-related harm.
• Working collaboratively with acute trusts, local authority public health teams, and community partners to develop and strengthen local cessation pathways.
• Where vaping is not deemed appropriate for the patient, establishing alternative support in the community.
• Patients that require alternative pharmacotherapy or more intensive support will be referred to the appropriate service.
• Recording the details of those using the service by completing the documentation supporting the project in accordance with agreed SOPs.
• Inputting patient data onto local system and PharmOutcomes, ensuring all data is input accurately and thereby monitoring and auditing reports.
• Working as part of the wider team with other TDAs, health professional and ED Smoking champions.
• To maintain professional working relationships within Norfolk Acute Trusts and other relevant organisations.
• To be responsible for continuous professional development, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of evidence-based practices, techniques, and emerging guidance (including NICE). Complete all mandatory Trust training and NCSCT modules as required and proactively engage with ongoing learning relevant to the service.
• To be responsible for managing own daily timetable of delegated tasks including time for supervision and training.
• Carry out administrative duties as required by the role.
• Attend educational events, ED departmental meetings.
• Responsibility for the promotion of the Service within ED.