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Tobacco Dependency Advisor - Band 4

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
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Location
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Profession
Manager and corporate
Grade
Band 4
Deadline
29 Jun 2025
Contract Type
9 months (Fixed term contract until February 2026)
Posted Date
13 Jun 2025

Job overview

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person Specification

  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust’s 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
  • Enthusiastic
  • 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
  • Demonstrates enthusiasm