Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Effective communicator
- Knowledge and skills
Word processing skills including email, Microsoft office and excel.
- Knowledge and skills
Ability to communicate effectively, using interpreters as required.
- Knowledge and skills
Able to deliver factual information using reassurance, tact and empathy.
- Knowledge and skills
Evidence of previous team working.
- Knowledge and skills
An understanding of confidentiality and the ability to adhere to and implement Information Governance guidelines.
- Knowledge and skills
Knowledge of tobacco treatment
- Qualification & Training
GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Qualification & Training
Understanding of the drivers of ill health
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and skills
Ability to use carbon monoxide monitors.
- Qualification & Training
Level 2 smoking cessation training
Job overview
To advise patients, staff and visitors on how to quit and / or abstain from smoking during a hospital stay and beyond.
Signpost to appropriate community support so patients can continue their quit journey following an inpatient stay.
Deliver / signpost staff training opportunities.
Main duties of the job
- To work with the onsite Tobacco dependency Treatment Service (TDTS) and specialists to provide advice, behavioural support and treatment in relation to tobacco smoking.
- To support the day to day running of the onsite TDTS to ensure safe, well organized and evidenced based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service. Provide support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of smoking cessation service.
- To support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.
- Organise own workload and work unsupervised in a busy team. Maintain a high standard of work and prioritise own workload according to the needs of the service, individual needs including equality, diversity and social inclusion in all aspects of work.
- Take referrals, including self-referrals, into the service and work with patients to identify the most appropriate tobacco dependency treatment pathway.
- Support individuals to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing and support them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioural changes to improve their health.
- Record and report activities and results.
- Develop and sustain tobacco dependency support and referrals into the service.
- Travel is required across the Trust footprint , including occasional regional travel.
- The TDTS will operate seven days each week.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Tobacco Dependency Treatment Advisor with South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesbrough, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Advisor role. The advertised salary is £25,760 - £27,476 Per employee. The contract type is Fixed term: 10 months (will also consider Secondment opportunity - These are NHSE / ICB funded posts to the 31st March 2027). The application deadline is 21 Sep 2026.
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