Tobacco Dependency Advisor - Band 4

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the NHS as a Tobacco Dependency Advisor, where you'll play a vital role in supporting mental health patients to reduce or quit smoking. This position promises career progression while making a significant impact on public health by addressing smoking-related issues among those with severe mental illness. You'll provide tailored support, promote healthy lifestyles, and work as part of a compassionate team dedicated to improving the community's wellbeing.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes for vehicles and gym memberships

Wellbeing support including in-house counselling

Qualifications

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust's Values.
• Experience of using computer systems and electronic records.
• Experience working as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 behavioral stop smoking support and advice.
• Deliver tobacco harm reduction assessments and advice sessions.
• Promote general health and wellbeing of service users.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Compassion

Proactivity

Education

GCSE Grade A-C in English and Maths or equivalent

NVQ/Diploma Level 3 or equivalent in healthcare

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Tobacco Dependency Advisor - Band 4

The closing date is 29 June 2025

As our new Tobacco Dependency Advisor, you'll work in our mental health services to support patients to reduce or stop smoking. As a developmental post, we will support and encourage your career progression within our Trust.

People with severe mental illness are more likely to experience poorer physical health than the general population. In Coventry and Warwickshire, we want to be a lead for reducing health inequalities and this an exciting post to support this ambition.

You'll be at the forefront of this work, providing 1:1 behavioural stop smoking support and advice for people who wish to quit and to support temporary abstinence during a hospital admission. This will be for all acute adult inpatients, using the support of interventions such as brief advice, Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).

You'll also deliver tobacco harm reduction assessments, advice and support sessions, including advice on stop-smoking medications, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face-to-face sessions in a variety of settings and venues across the Trust.

You'll promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service by signposting them to healthy lifestyle advice and support services.

This role offers a genuine opportunity to reach a wide number of people with severe mental illness and address one of the biggest determinants of physical health; smoking.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached job description and person specification for more information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• flexible working opportunities
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person Specification

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trusts Values
• Obtained an educational level of GCSE level A C English and Maths or equivalent.
• Smoking Cessation Training or willing to undertake within the 3 months of stating in post.
• Preferable NVQ/Diploma Level 3 or equivalent higher apprenticeship in healthcare. Experience of assessing patient needs and responding with relevant care plans
• Experience of supporting smoke free pathways
• Experience working as part of a team
• Experience of using computer systems and electronic records.
• Experience in working with patients in the delivery of the health promotion agenda.
• Ideally, experience of supporting patients who wish to give up smoking. Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
• Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals / individuals from different professional backgrounds
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening
• Competent IT skills experience with WORD and EXCEL
• Able to present information, written and orally in an accurate clear and logical manner
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Ability to write accurate and legibly in patient notes
• Ability to communicate in situations where patients may be difficult or dismissive
• Proactive
• Flexible
• Professional leadership qualities
• Flexibility to meet service needs
• Commitment to embed coproduction, lived experience and trauma informed approaches
• Able to take initiative when working alone
• Compassionate and caring nature
• Able to adapt to changing circumstances
• Recognition of own limitations

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Smoking Cessation Training or willing to undertake within the 3 months of stating in post

Experience

• Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
• Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals / individuals from different professional backgrounds
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload

Other

• Independent means of transport to attend meetings trust wide

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust