Tobacco Dependency Advisor

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The closing date is 11 March 2026

An exciting opportunity to work with Northumbria Healthcare Public Health team's tobacco dependency treatment service. This team is key to delivering the ambitions of the NHS Long Term plan to provide treatment for tobacco dependency for all patients admitted to hospital, making a significant contribution to public health and reducing health inequalities.

This post holder will specifically support work in our Emergency Department and our in patient wards vel to other hospital sites may also be required.

We welcome applications from those with practical experience in a health and care setting.

This post will involve working directly with patients to assess their needs related to tobacco dependency and to work with them to identify treatment and support to enable them make a successful quit attempt. Support may be face to face, remote consultation or via telephone.

Other duties will include supporting the wider public health team in developing and delivering training packages on tobacco dependency and a range of public health issues.

To support the day to day running of the tobacco dependency service to ensure safe, well organised and evidence based care is provided to all that access the service. Provide support in a range of settings as required.

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 working with patients to identify the most appropriate tobacco dependency treatment pathway.

Identifying and engaging with individuals and groups from target areas.

Supporting individuals to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing and supporting them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioural changes to improve their health.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.

We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

To work with the Tobacco Dependency team and Public Health team to provide behavioural support and treatment in relation to tobacco smoking.

To support the day to day running of the Tobacco Dependency service to ensure safe, well organised and evidence based care is 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.

• Level 3 qualification in relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Certificate/Professional qualification in a related area
• Level 2 smoking cessation training
• Motivational behaviour training

• Experience of working in a health or voluntary community setting.
• Experience of working and communicating with people.
• Experience of working with local community groups, health sector or voluntary sector in some capacity
• Knowledge of lifestyle factors that make people healthy and unhealthy
• Knowledge of behaviour change methods.
• Knowledge of health needs of the local community

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

£24,937 to £26,598 a year pro rata per annum

Fixed term

12 months

JN-HAS

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital