Job Description

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



Be an active member of the LGT's Stop Smoking Team, working in close liaison with the LGT 's Emergency Department Team



Act as a point of contact dealing with queries from stakeholders regarding COSTED implementation



Understand patient numbers and trends for A&E attendances and delivering the COSTED intervention at location(s) and times agreed with the Emergency Department



Engage with patients attending the A&E, identifying current smokers and applying behavioural change techniques to motivate them to take up the COSTED intervention



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



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



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



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



Manage a caseload of participants for the COSTED intervention independently



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:



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



Widening access (anchor institution) and employability



Improving the experience of staff with disability



Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development



Making equalities mainstream

J ob 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 :



Emergency Department (A&E), Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Stadium Road, London SE18 4QH



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:



Brief advice on smoking cessation, followed up at 1, 3, 6 months



Provision of a vape starter kit plus advice on its use



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 - base d practice for the effective delivery of stop smoking interventions using the standards laid out in NICE guidelines (NG209) and by the NCSCT .