Tobacco Dependency Advisor Band 4

United Lincolnshire Hospitals; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Tobacco Dependency Advisor to support the Trust-wide Tobacco Dependency Service, helping patients quit smoking and improve health. You will deliver behavioural support, advise on pharmacotherapy, assess patients, and develop personalised quit plans across inpatient and community settings.

Working with clinical teams across Lincolnshire, you will provide group and one-to-one support, monitor progress, maintain records, and contribute to service

Qualifications

• Good verbal and written communications skills and the ability to work autonomously.
• Clinical governance and patient data handling awareness.
• Qualifications in smoking cessation and health promotion methods.

Responsibilities

• Deliver smoking cessation interventions with behavioural support and pharmacotherapy guidance.
• Assess patients, develop personalised quit plans, and support across inpatient and community settings.
• Provide one-to-one and group support sessions with follow-up care.
• Identify smokers, offer evidence-based advice, and promote harm reduction.
• Support Tobacco Dependency pathway implementation and care governance.
• Collaborate with clinical teams and community services to ensure continuity of care.
• Monitor progress, record outcomes, and contribute to service evaluation.
• Promote smoke-free policies and contribute to health promotion campaigns.
• Maintain accurate patient records and comply with data protection standards.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Good verbal and written communications

Autonomous working

Flexible multi-site working

Education

NVQ/Apprenticeship level 3 in healthcare or equivalent

NCSCT Smoking Cessation Practitioner training

GCSE Maths and English (A-D or 3-9)

Level 2 smoking cessation training

Health promotion/behaviour change training

Tools

Careflow

ESR

ePMA

Job description

We are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the community it serves and welcome applicants from all sectors of the community.

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

The Tobacco Dependency Advisor will support the delivery of a Trust-wide Tobacco Dependency Service, helping patients to quit smoking and improve their overall health.

Main duties of the job

Deliver smoking cessation interventions, including behavioural support and advice on pharmacotherapy (e.g. nicotine replacement therapy).

Assess patients, develop personalised quit plans, and support individuals through their quit journey in both inpatient and community settings.

Provide one-to-one and group support sessions, including follow-up care (e.g. post-discharge telephone support).

Identify and engage patients who smoke, offering evidence-based advice and promoting harm reduction approaches.

Support the implementation of the Tobacco Dependency pathway and Ottawa Model of Care within the Trust.

Work collaboratively with clinical teams and community services to ensure continuity of care and effective referral pathways.

Monitor patient progress, record outcomes, and contribute to reporting requirements and service evaluation.

Promote smoke-free policies and contribute to health promotion campaigns (e.g. Stoptober).

Maintain accurate patient records and ensure compliance with data protection and governance standards.

Contribute to service development, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Qualifications (Academic, Professional & Vocational)

• NVQ/Apprenticeship level 3 in healthcare or equivalent experience
• NCSCT Smoking Cessation Practitioner training
• Grades A-D or 3-9 in GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
• Level 2 smoking cessation training
• Specific training in health promotion/behaviour change interventions

Previous Experience (Nature & Level)

• Experience of providing healthcare, healthcare advice or health promotion advice to patients or members of the public
• Understanding of the drivers of ill health and mental health.
• Evidence of previous team working
• Confidence in working with a wide variety of partners
• Self-awareness around limitations of skills and competencies and ability to work within them
• Experience of delivering smoking cessation support
• Experience of working in acute NHS secondary care sector
• Knowledge of tobacco treatment
• Experience working with people in a behaviour change context
• Experience of working in health promotion

Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes

• Good verbal and written communications skills.
• Work effectively and autonomously without direct supervision and/or as part of a team
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and service user.
• Confident in dealing with people, even in challenging circumstances.
• Ability to present an open and none-judgemental demeanour.
• Ability to activity listen and respond to needs of patients.Ability to maintain professional and confidential approach at all times.
• Awareness of the importance of taking personal responsibility and providing peer support for wellbeing.
• Ability to develop skills & Knowledge to achieve level NVQ within 2 years of joining TDA
• Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust
• Experience of use of ULHT clinical systems (Careflow,ESR,ePMA)
• Knowledge of ULHT Employment Assistant Programme (EAP)
• Ability to use carbon monoxide monitors

Specific Requirements

• Be able to travel independently between different sites across the Trust without the use of public transport

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

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