Job Description

Job details

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Job reference
REQ6022
Date posted
30/07/2025
Application closing date
13/08/2025
Location
Leicester General Hospital
Salary
27,711 - 30,060 Per Year
Package
Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): 40,825.24
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Public Health
Attachments
July 2025 (11).pdf

Stop Smoking Advisor

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Job description
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / 12 Month Fixed Term due to backfilling secondment





Make a difference to the citizens of Leicester and their health and wellbeing,



Join us to deliver on a secondary care treatment programme for tobacco addiction. As a valued member of our local authority Stop Smoking Services team, you'll work on this exciting programme for smokers across University Hospitals Leicester. Working with the Service Lead, community and hospital-based midwives and maternity support workers, we aim to provide Stop Smoking support to pregnant women to promote smoke free pregnancies and smoke free homes.





This is a full-time, 12-month fixed term position working 37 hours per week. You'll be able to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends by agreement, to provide sessions to meet service user needs. You'll work across two sites - Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital.





We will consider this vacancy on a secondment basis for Leicester City Council employees. If you wish to apply for this post on a secondment basis then please make your line manager aware before applying.

What you'll be doing

Working predominantly in hospital wards and clinics within maternity services, you'll also counsel pregnant women on stopping smoking from the community. You'll manage a caseload of clients and monitor their progress, as well as make further referrals to other services to support clients to enhance their health and wellbeing. This will include planning and delivering treatment sessions, using motivational interviewing techniques and providing clients with tools to help them with stopping smoking during their pregnancy and the post-natal period. You'll work closely with Public Health midwife, Service Lead and stop smoking services to develop, inform, and implement strategies to ensure health professionals are adequately trained to support women and their families with health improvement measures.

What you'll need

With previous experience of supporting individuals to change their behaviour and helping them to facilitate these changes, you will understand 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 will have completed the NCSCT (National Centre for Smoking Cessation & Training) Knowledge and Skills programme OR be able to complete this within 1 month of commencement in the post.



You will have completed the NCSCT (National Centre for Smoking Cessation & Training) Standard Treatment Programme for Pregnant Women programme OR be able to complete this within 1 month of commencement in the post.

What we can offer you

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.

Join us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.





If you would like a chat about the role please contact Ben Austin on 0116 454 1982 or at ben.austin@leicester.gov.uk





Assessment/Interviews will take place on 20th of August