Workplace Health Stop Smoking Practitioner
This role focuses on engaging with workplaces across Nottinghamshire to support employers and their staff in improving health and wellbeing. You will work closely with local businesses to provide training, guidance, and access to services that promote healthier lifestyles, with a particular emphasis on reducing health inequalities related to tobacco use and increasing awareness of ABL services. As a Workplace Health Advisor, you will play a key role in delivering evidence-based interventions within communities, including those in areas of greatest deprivation, helping individuals make positive and sustainable behaviour changes. This is a highly rewarding position where you can make a real difference to peoples lives, requiring flexibility, the ability to work independently and collaboratively, and a proactive approach. The role also includes delivering stop smoking support through face-to-face and telephone clinics, with full training provided to achieve NCSCT Level 2 Stop Smoking Practitioner status.
Main duties of the job
This is a varied, challenging, and rewarding role focused on delivering high-quality smoking cessation support across community and workplace settings. You will engage with local businesses to build partnerships, assess workforce needs, and develop referral pathways into the Stop Smoking Service, while collaborating with external organisations to promote wellbeing at work and reduce health inequalities. A key part of the role involves providing client-focused support, motivating individuals to overcome nicotine addiction and adopt healthier behaviours through evidence-based interventions, including one-to-one sessions, group delivery, drop-ins, and remote support, in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme. You will work with clients to set realistic quit goals, offer ongoing behavioural and motivational support, and facilitate peer support groups to help prevent relapse. Working collaboratively with other professionals, you will embed smoking cessation into routine care and maximise the overall health impact within the community. The role also involves analysing health and equalities data to respond to local needs, contributing to service development, and ensuring delivery is efficient, high-quality, and accessible across diverse populations. You will maintain accurate and compliant records in line with ABL Health standards and use your organisational skills to manage competing priorities effectively.
About us
ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective, and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.
Job responsibilities
To engage and work with workplaces in offering support and training to workforces within Nottinghamshire in supporting their staff to achieve a healthy lifestyle and access to services. Working with local business to support reducing health inequalities in relation to tobacco control and promotional of ABL services across Nottinghamshire.
This role is extremely rewarding in making a difference to peoples lives. The role of the Workplace Health Advisor is to support the delivery of evidenced based services to help to reduce the inequalities throughout the contracted localities. This will include the delivery of services within areas of most deprivation. It is essential that the postholder can work flexibly, independently and as part of a team.
This Post holder will always be trained to NCSCT level 2 stop smoking practitioner level. With an expectation to support the service in deliver of stop smoking clinics via face to face or telephone.
Training will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.
Your key responsibilities will be:
Community and Workplace Engagement
To engage with local businesses, build a portfolio, and assess workforce needs to support referral routes into the Stop Smoking Service.
Collaborate with external organisations to support and promote wellbeing-at-work practices.
Support efforts to reduce health inequalities within workplace and community settings.
Client-Focused Smoking Cessation Support
Motivate and empower clients to address nicotine addiction and adopt healthier behaviours.
Explain the principles of nicotine addiction and the Stop Smoking Service to support informed client choices.
Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions (one-to-one, drop-in, group sessions, telephone, or online), in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
Work with individuals to set realistic and sustainable quit goals.
Provide ongoing motivational support and education on behavioural change techniques.
Lead peer support groups for successful quitters to prevent relapse.
Work with other professionals to embed smoking cessation as part of routine client care.
Maximise the health impact of smoking cessation and contribute to reducing health inequalities across the community.
Service Development and Data Use
Analyse health and equalities data, including service-level data, to identify and respond to local needs.
Contribute to the delivery of high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective services across diverse community settings.
Administrative and Record-Keeping
Ensure all client and service records are accurate, up to date, and comply with ABL Health documentation standards.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in smoking cessation or addiction.
This role will be demanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.
Duties and Responsibilities
This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.
Skills and Competencies Required
Be an experienced Workplace Health Stop Smoking Practitioner within the community. (Training will be given)
Experience of working with evolving and developing services
Positive and proactive outlook with the ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.
Adept in communication; A strong communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, staff, and volunteers at all levels.
Build strong relationships, foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders throughout community settings.
Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
Organisational and Time Management Skills Capable of managing a caseload efficiently while balancing administrative and outreach responsibilities.
Client-Centred Approach Demonstrate empathy, compassion, and cultural sensitivity in supporting clients through behaviour change.
Business Engagement and Relationship Management Skilled at engaging and building sustained relationships with a wide range of employers, HR professionals, and workplace wellbeing leads.
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in community settings
* Experience of working on health inequalities
* Experience of working with stakeholders in partnership working
* Knowledge of child protection and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
* Experience of developing and delivering training to target audiences.
* Understanding of national guidance and ability to disseminate research and best practice.
Qualifications
* Higher level education or health/social care/public health)/ professional qualification, or experience working within smoking cessation other addiction or behaviour change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Employer name
ABL Health Ltd
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