Tobacco Dependency Treatment Advisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves advising patients, staff, and visitors on quitting and abstaining from smoking during and after hospital stays. You will signpost individuals to community support and contribute to staff training. The position requires working with the onsite Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service to provide behavioural support and treatment, ensuring safe and evidenced-based care. You will manage your own workload, prioritise tasks, and record activities and results.
Essential criteria
- Word processing skills including email, Microsoft office and excel.
- Ability to communicate effectively, using interpreters as required.
- Able to deliver factual information using reassurance, tact and empathy.
- Evidence of previous team working.
- An understanding of confidentiality and the ability to adhere to and implement Information Governance guidelines.
- Knowledge of tobacco treatment
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use carbon monoxide monitors.
- Effective communicator
- Qualification & Training
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Understanding of the drivers of ill health
- Level 2 smoking cessation training
- Knowledge and skills
- Word processing skills including email, Microsoft office and excel.
- Ability to communicate effectively, using interpreters as required.
- Able to deliver factual information using reassurance, tact and empathy.
- Evidence of previous team working.
- An understanding of confidentiality and the ability to adhere to and implement Information Governance guidelines.
- Knowledge of tobacco treatment
- Ability to use carbon monoxide monitors.
- Effective communicator
- Qualification & Training
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Understanding of the drivers of ill health
- Level 2 smoking cessation training
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Tobacco Dependency Treatment Advisor
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
To advise patients, staff and visitors on how to quit and / or abstain from smoking during a hospital stay and beyond.
Signpost to appropriate community support so patients can continue their quit journey following an inpatient stay.
Deliver / signpost staff training opportunities.
Main duties of the job
To work with the onsite Tobaccodependency Treatment Service (TDTS) and specialists to provide advice, behavioural support and treatment in relation to tobacco smoking.
To support the day to day running of the onsite TDTS to ensure safe, well organized and evidenced based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service. Provide support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of smoking cessation service.
To support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.
Organise own workload and work unsupervised in a busy team. Maintain a high standard of work and prioritise own workload according to the needs of the service, individual needs including equality, diversity and social inclusion in all aspects of work.
Take referrals, including self-referrals, into the service and work with patients to identify the most appropriate tobacc
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