# Smoke Free Pregnancy Practitioner - Peterborough/Huntingdon > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/smoke-free-pregnancy-practitioner-peterboroughhuntingdon/c5477d31-ffac-4880-91fd-cb3779594506 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/smoke-free-pregnancy-practitioner-peterboroughhuntingdon/c5477d31-ffac-4880-91fd-cb3779594506.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Peterborough - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 6 months (Secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-11T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-28T13:03:49.131Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Edith_Cavell_Campus_Bretton_Gate_Peterborough/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Maternity/Maternity-v8042905 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8042905?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview As a Smoke Free Pregnancy Practitioner you will work with the Lead Treating Tobacco Dependency Specialist Midwife to deliver smoking cessation support to women within the Maternity Service at  NHS North West Anglia Foundation Trust. ### Main duties of the job The Smoke free Pregnancy Practitioners role will contribute to tackling health inequalities through promoting and supporting Smoke free Pregnancies across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough System. It will focus on engaging pregnant women and the families to adopt healthy lifestyles through providing tobacco dependence treatment in line with Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle v2, NICE Guidance and the NHS Long Term Plan. The post holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining communication with pregnant women who smoke, in which strong interpersonal skills are essential.  A commitment to working collaboratively with community stakeholders, service users and carers, to help reduce health inequalities across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is essential. The post holders will be delivering evidence-based interventions that focus on behaviour change, and licenced treatment aids of which training can be offered to enable delivery. To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate the core values of the NHS, reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes for all. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached job description which gives full details of the role.  Alternatively call to arrange an informal visit to meet the team. ## Job Details As a Smoke Free Pregnancy Practitioner you will work with the Lead Treating Tobacco Dependency Specialist Midwife to deliver smoking cessation support to women within the Maternity Service at NHS North West Anglia Foundation Trust. ## Job Description The Smoke free Pregnancy Practitioners role will contribute to tackling health inequalities through promoting and supporting Smoke free Pregnancies across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough System. It will focus on engaging pregnant women and the families to adopt healthy lifestyles through providing tobacco dependence treatment in line with Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle v2, NICE Guidance and the NHS Long Term Plan. The post holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining communication with pregnant women who smoke, in which strong interpersonal skills are essential. A commitment to working collaboratively with community stakeholders, service users and carers, to help reduce health inequalities across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is essential. The post holders will be delivering evidence-based interventions that focus on behaviour change, and licenced treatment aids of which training can be offered to enable delivery. To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate the core values of the NHS, reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes for all. ## Responsibilities Please see the attached job description which gives full details of the role. Alternatively call to arrange an informal visit to meet the team. ## Person Specification ### other **Essential** - Ability to prioritise own workload, to work unsupervised and to use initiative ### Experience **Desirable** - Previous experience within a maternity setting - Experience working in a Healthcare environment or for local authority services - Experience delivering smoking cessation advice ### Education and qualifications **Essential** - 4 GCSEs (grades A-C) including English Language and Maths or significant equivalent previous proven experience - Proficient in the use of suite of Microsoft packages **Desirable** - NVQ 3 in Care or equivalent plus additional training to diploma level equivalent, or equivalent through short courses or experience - NSCST smoking in pregnancy practitioner registered Accredited Health Education and Promotion qualification - Accredited Health Education and Promotion qualification ### Key skills/ability and knowledge **Essential** - Able to demonstrate sound knowledge of the impact smoking has on pregnancy Knowledge and understanding of NICE Guidelines - Excellent IT Skills - Excellent communicator - Good organisation skills - Ability to work on own initiative - Ability to work with a range of stakeholders - Always understands the importance of professional behaviour - Diplomacy and negotiation skills Ability to cope under pressure with high levels of concentration - Ability to adapt to different situations - Ability to deal with potentially emotional situations such as babies going into care or adoption. - Ability to act sensitively, using tact and empathy in order to minimise parental anxiety ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886) - [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865) - [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745) - [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788) - [smoke free pregnancy practitioner - jd (pdf, 448.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10331517) - [smoke free pregnancy practitioner - ps (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10331518) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.