Stop Smoking Advisor

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Live Well Leicester is an integrated healthy lifestyle service which supports the residents of Leicester city to improve their health and wellbeing by offering support with smoking cessation, increasing physical activity, managing alcohol levels, healthy eating, and weight management. We have a fantastic opportunity for a compassionate yet enthusiastic Stop Smoking Advisor to join our Live Well Leicester team to support the residents of Leicester to stop smoking.

Working closely with officers within the Live Well team and the wider Public Health team, as well as other internal and external services. You will provide people with the tools to make positive health changes, motivating them to stop smoking.

This is a full time post based at Braunstone Health and Social Care Centre working Monday to Friday, however you must be able to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends by agreement to provide sessions to suit service users and be willing & able to work occasionally outside normal office hours.

What you'll be doing

As a Stop Smoking Advisor, you'll manage your caseload of clients and monitor their progress as well as making onward referrals where appropriate, to support clients in further enhancing their health and wellbeing. By implementing behaviour change techniques and providing clients with the tools they need to succeed, you'll aim to help them overcome tobacco dependency and provide clinical advice. As a confident IT user, you'll maintain accurate records on the client record management systems.

With previous experience of supporting individuals to change their behaviour and helping them to facilitate these changes, you will have an understanding of the national and local agenda in relation to smoking cessation and tobacco and the impact of smoking on an individual's health. Using your excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills you will have the ability to listen actively and provide clear explanations and clinical advice to clients and other professionals as well as ability to engage, influence and persuade others. You'll have NCSCT National Centre for Smoking Cessation & Training - Knowledge and Skills programme completed OR a willingness to complete this within 1 month of commencement in the post.

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.