Advisor, Healthcare, Mental Health

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Leicestershire Partnership Trust for the position of Smoke Free Advisor within the established Smoke Free Service across the Directorate of Mental Health.

This is a 12 months Fixed Term, part time role of 18.75 hours which can be worked flexibly between the hours of 9am to 5pm Mon
- Fri.

The service provides advice and support in the form of information, behavioural support in groups and one to one, and support with identifying appropriate Nicotine Replacement Therapies and Vapes. You will have the opportunity to establish positive therapeutic relationships with smokers in our inpatient wards and leverage those relationships to improve patient's lives. This role would suit anyone who thrives when working with a large degree of autonomy, has great leadership and collaboration skills, and feels strongly about a smoke free agenda personally and socially.

Duties will include designing tailored care plans with patients and implementing those care plans through nicotine replacement and vaping advice and one to one and group behaviour support sessions, all to help those who engage with the service improve their relationship with tobacco and ultimately improve their lives.

As well as delivering the service you will provide support for the maintenance of the Trusts Smoke Free Policy. Advisors will act as Smoke Free champions within the Trust. The service represents a crucial opportunity to improve health and life-expectancy of a hard-to-reach cohort and in doing so reduce health inequalities and further the NHS's Long-Term Plan.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long‑term goals and work to your strengths.

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work‑life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• Various Staff Support Networks

For an informal chat, please contact Emily Lucocq at

As a Smoke Free Advisor, you will provide tobacco treatment advice and support to individuals and groups of service users, who want to stop smoking, reduce their harm from tobacco or for temporary abstinence when in hospital.

You will work with service users to change their behaviour to improve their health, coordinate Trust‑wide activities in support of the above: promotion of activities, organisation of activities.

You will liaise with clinical teams to agree which services users will be offered support from the Smoke Free Service and to promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering one‑to‑one and group tobacco addiction advice and support.

The role will include providing advice and support to ward staff, providing or reinforcing training provided to inpatient teams to reduce harm from tobacco and the promotion of smoke free settings.

Ensure robust discharge planning for the patients ongoing tobacco dependency treatment for patients wishing to quit or who have an ongoing harm reduction programme.

You will be required to have a comprehensive mental health founded knowledge of the health harms of smoking and the benefits that cessation…