Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
This exciting new post will deliver the CoSTED Project at UHL and QE hospitals. The project provides free e-cigarettes to smokers whilst they wait in the Emergency Department.
The role will oversee the delivery of the project under the guidance of the Stop Smoking Team Lead and will work with band 4 colleagues to set up, run, and analyse the project on a day-to-day.
Having strong communication and partnership skills and exerience, as well as being a trained stop smoking advisor, are vital for this post.
Travelling between sites will be a regular requirement of the role,
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this post
Interview date 17th October 2025
Main duties of the job
1. Be an active member of the LGT’s Stop Smoking Team, working in close liaison with the LGT’s Emergency Department Team
2. Act as a point of contact dealing with queries from stakeholders regarding COSTED implementation
3. Understand patient numbers and trends for A&E attendances and delivering the COSTED intervention at location(s) and times agreed with the Emergency Department
4. Engage with patients attending the A&E, identifying current smokers and applying behavioural change techniques to motivate them to take up the COSTED intervention
5. Work collaboratively with Public Health colleagues and providers of community stop smoking services, ensuring optimal support pathways for smokers who are willing to quit smoking
6. Be responsible for accurate and timely data entry onto the required system including baseline data and follow-up data at 4 weeks, 3 and 6 months, and assisting in the preparation and submission of reports
7. Be responsible for liaising with the provider of vape starter kits, ensuring correct data entries on the order platform and clear communication with participants in terms of accessing top-up e-liquid for vaping
8. Develop stop smoking resources and materials including written patient information as required and use existing appropriate resources to inform participants according to individually assessed needs
9. Manage a caseload of participants for the COSTED intervention independently
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
10. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
11. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
12. Improving the experience of staff with disability
13. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
14. Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Summary:
Accountable to Stop Smoking Team Lead.
The Cessation of Smoking Trial in Emergency Department (COSTED) intervention is based on an intervention delivered as part of research trial recruiting people attending the Emergency Department (A&E) who smoke. The research trail shows that people were around twice as likely to report quitting smoking having received the intervention than not.
The Stop Smoking Advisor for COSTED will be expected to support and contribute to the delivery of the LGT stop smoking service objectives. This post has a particular focus on the implementation of COSTED at the following sites, as one of South East London (SEL) Vital 5 tobacco projects:
15. Emergency Department (A&E), Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Stadium Road, London SE18 4QH
16. Emergency Department (A&E), University Hospital Lewisham (UHL), Lewisham High Street, London SE13 6LH
The post holder will deliver the COSTED intervention at the A&E consisting of three elements:
17. Brief advice on smoking cessation, followed up at 1, 3, 6 months
18. Provision of a vape starter kit plus advice on its use
19. Referral to local stop smoking services
The post holder will proactively engage with patients attending the A&E identifying current smokers, delivering the COSTED intervention to those who would like to take part and referring those who are willing to quit smoking to local stop smoking services.
The post holder will feel comfortable and work flexibly and adaptably in the Emergency Department environment handling potential knockbacks. The post holder will work collaboratively with the LGT’s Stop Smoking Team, Public Health colleagues and providers of local stop smoking services, ensuring that optimal support pathways are developed and implemented for those who are willing to quit smoking, contributing to the reduction of smoking rates and thus improving health of local populations and reducing smoking-related ill health and death in SEL. The post holder will contribute to SEL shared learning with colleagues delivering the COSTED intervention at other SEL trust sites and wider stakeholders.
The post holder will have passed the NCSCT practitioner assessment and will be competent to provide effective patient care in a range of settings, having a close regard for relevant Trust policies to ensure safe and effective working practices when working with vulnerable patients, maintaining patient confidentiality, and designing individually tailored support programmes according to evidence-based practice for the effective delivery of stop smoking interventions using the standards laid out in NICE guidelines (NG209) and by the NCSCT.
Person specification
Essential criteria
20. Educated to degree level or appropriate professional qualification e.g. nursing, social work, counselling, health promotion
21. NCSCT Practitioner Certification
22. Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
23. SCTRP ‘Setting up and running stop smoking groups’
Experience
Essential criteria
24. Experience in delivering health improvement programmes
25. Experience of delivering behaviour change programmes to vulnerable groups
26. Experience of project development and management
27. Experience of designing and delivering training to a wide range of professions.
28. Experience of successful partnership work across agencies and/ or professional groups
29. Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written
30. Able to formulate and verbalise views
31. Able to anticipate and forward plan
32. Able to use initiative and work with minimum supervision
Desirable criteria
33. Working with smokers
34. Working with vapers
35. Supporting people to change behaviours
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
36. Ability to work under pressure and remain calm
37. Understands key issues around smoking cessation delivery in acute and community settings
38. Can translate national guidance into local practices
39. Able to analyse data and to evaluate the effectiveness of different initiatives
40. Able to recognise stress in self and others and support colleagues through stressful situations.
41. Able to create press releases and statements to concisely elucidate service activity and benefits to the wider Trust teams.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.