Overview
Health Promotion Fife is looking for a full time Stop Smoking Advisor to support the delivery of the Fife Health & Social Care Partnership’s Smoking Cessation Local Delivery Plan standard for 2025/26. The Stop Smoking Service contributes towards improving the health of the local population in line with national and local stop smoking strategies and policy.
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Responsibilities
* Delivery of evidence-based stop smoking interventions across Fife, ensuring that the work targets people/families identified as priority groups by the Scottish Government: from a range of community, primary care, acute, outreach, mobile and workplace settings.
* Increasing engagement through promotion and awareness sessions at a community level for identified priority groups receiving support from community and inequalities groups from across the Fife HSCP, Fife NHS and 3rd sector organisations.
* Undertake client assessments, make appropriate pharmacotherapy decisions, provide ongoing client support and undertake follow-ups.
* Demonstrate effective engagement strategies and approaches to work with the 4 priority groups to support referrals to the service.
* Experience of delivering behaviour change models with health improvement knowledge and skills is desirable.
* Understand health inequalities and how this relates to the smoking of tobacco and vaping.
Qualifications
* Relevant professional or academic qualification or significant experience in stop smoking support delivered on a one-to-one or group basis. This is a non-nursing post.
* PVG Scheme: A requirement of this post is to become a member prior to appointment.
* Desirable: experience in health improvement and behaviour change models.
Additional information
* Right to work in the United Kingdom: legal requirement and routes of permission (UK Visa and Immigration Service, GOV.UK guidance).
* Pre-employment checks will confirm entitlement to work in the UK; sponsorship via UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa may be possible for eligible posts if the employer is a licensed Sponsor and salary conditions apply.
* Be sure to check you have the appropriate right to work or sponsorship eligibility before submitting your application.
* NHS Scotland is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of society. Flexible working, family-friendly policies, and reasonable adjustments are available for disabled candidates and those with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent.
For informal enquiries, please email Patricia Allan (patricia.allan3@nhs.scot) or call Tel: 0800 025 3000, Mobile: 07845 410708.
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