Workplace Health Practitioner

ABL Health Ltd; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization is looking for a Workplace Health Advisor to engage local businesses and deliver smoking cessation services. The role focuses on reducing health inequalities by promoting effective smoking cessation programs within workplaces. Key responsibilities include motivating clients, delivering health interventions, and collaborating with stakeholders. Candidates must have a higher level education in health-related fields and experience working in community settings. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on public health in Mansfield, UK.

Qualifications

• Experienced Workplace Health Stop Smoking Practitioner, passion for health improvement.
• Proven experience working in community settings with health inequalities.
• Ability to engage and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engage with local businesses and community organisations to assess workforce needs.
• Deliver evidence-based smoking cessation interventions to clients.
• Support efforts to reduce health inequalities in workplace settings.

Skills

Communication

Motivational Skills

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Relationship Management

Education

Higher level education in health, social care, or public health

Job description

To engage and work with workplaces in offering support and training to workforces within Nottinghamshire in supporting their staff to achieve a healthy lifestyle and access to services. Working with local business to support reducing health inequalities in relation to tobacco control and promotional of ABL services across Nottinghamshire.

Main duties of the job

As part of the ABL Health Stop Smoking Service, you’ll play a vital role in supporting individuals and workplaces to lead healthier, smoke-free lives. You’ll engage with local businesses and community organisations to build partnerships, assess workforce needs, and promote wellbeing-at-work initiatives that reduce health inequalities. Working directly with clients, you’ll deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions through one-to-one sessions, group support, or digital platforms motivating and empowering people to overcome nicotine addiction and adopt lasting healthy habits. You’ll collaborate with other professionals to embed smoking cessation into everyday care and use health data to shape services that meet local needs. With a focus on quality, impact, and compassion, you’ll help strengthen ABL Health’s commitment to creating healthier communities while ensuring accurate, high‑standard record keeping and service delivery.

About us

ABL is an exciting fast‑paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective, and relevant healthcare services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.

Job responsibilities

This role is extremely rewarding in making a difference to people’s lives. The role of the Workplace Health Advisor is to support the delivery of evidence based services to help to reduce the inequalities throughout the contracted localities. This will include the delivery of services within areas of most deprivation. It is essential that the postholder can work flexibly, independently and as part of a team.

This Post holder will always be trained to NCSCT level 2 stop smoking practitioner level. With an expectation to support the service in delivery of stop smoking clinics via face to face or telephone.

Training will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Community and Workplace Engagement

• To engage with local businesses, build a portfolio, and assess workforce needs to support referral routes into the Stop Smoking Service.
• Collaborate with external organisations to support and promote wellbeing-at-work practices.
• Support efforts to reduce health inequalities within workplace and community settings.

Client‑Focused Smoking Cessation Support

• Motivate and empower clients to address nicotine addiction and adopt healthier behaviours.
• Explain the principles of nicotine addiction and the Stop Smoking Service to support informed client choices.
• Deliver evidence‑based stop smoking interventions (one‑to‑one, drop‑in, group sessions, telephone, or online), in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
• Work with individuals to set realistic and sustainable quit goals.
• Provide ongoing motivational support and education on behavioural change techniques.
• Lead peer support groups for successful quitters to prevent relapse.
• Work with other professionals to embed smoking cessation as part of routine client care.
• Maximise the health impact of smoking cessation and contribute to reducing health inequalities across the community.

Service Development and Data Use

• Analyse health and equalities data, including service‑level data, to identify and respond to local needs.
• Contribute to the delivery of high‑quality, efficient, and cost‑effective services across diverse community settings.

Administrative and Record‑Keeping

• Ensure all client and service records are accurate, up to date, and comply with ABL Health documentation standards.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in smoking cessation or addiction.

This role will be demanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.

Duties and Responsibilities

This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.

Skills and Competencies Required

Be an experienced Workplace Health Stop Smoking Practitioner within the community. (Training will be given)

Experience of working with evolving and developing services

Positive and proactive outlook with the ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.

Adept in communication; A strong communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, staff, and volunteers at all levels.

Build strong relationships, foster trust and co‑operation among colleagues, stakeholders throughout community settings.

Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.

Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

Organisational and Time Management Skills Capable of managing a caseload efficiently while balancing administrative and outreach responsibilities.

Client‑Centred Approach Demonstrate empathy, compassion, and cultural sensitivity in supporting clients through behaviour change.

Business Engagement and Relationship Management Skilled at engaging and building sustained relationships with a wide range of employers, HR professionals, and workplace wellbeing leads.

Standard Information

Information Governance

Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.

The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The postholder must comply with ABL’s policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABL’s records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.

Health & Safety

Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.

Safeguarding is Everyone’s Business

ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABL’s employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABL’s safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.

ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.

Training

The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.

The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.

Equality, Diversity & Human Rights

It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in community settings
• Experience of working on health inequalities
• Experience of working with stakeholders in partnership working
• Experience of developing and delivering training to target audiences.
• Understanding of national guidance and ability to disseminate research and best practice.
• Knowledge of the wider tobacco control agenda

Qualifications

• Higher level education or health/social care/public health or professional qualification, or experience working within smoking cessation other addiction or behaviour change.

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

ABL Health Ltd

Address

Suite 1, The Willows Ransom Wood Business Park