Salary: £26,000 per year (pro rata)
Hours: 18.75 hours per week
Location: Wirral
Contract type: Permanent
Closing Date: 18th June 2026
Please quote job reference: ABL 855b
Role Purpose:
As a Tobacco Dependency Practitioner for Secondary Care, you will be an integral part of Smoking Cessation in the hospital, working alongside existing colleagues and partners, ensuring a medical model of care for tobacco dependency is an integrated part of routine client care by all health professionals. Ultimately this programme will lead to the most significant referral route for the overall smoking cessation service within the Borough.
Training will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will assess, plan and deliver smoking cessation and tobacco dependency support to patients at the hospital bedside, ensuring seamless follow-up support within the community following discharge. Working under the line management of the Project Lead and Head of Service, and as part of the secondary care team under an honorary contract, the role will involve delivering evidence-based stop smoking interventions in line with NICE and NCSCT guidance through one-to-one, group, drop-in, telephone and online sessions. You will motivate and empower clients to address tobacco addiction using behaviour change techniques, help them set realistic and sustainable goals, and provide ongoing support to prevent relapse, including facilitating peer support sessions. The role includes working closely with hospital clinical teams and wider professionals to embed smoking cessation into routine patient care, ensuring clients have timely access to appropriate pharmacotherapy on admission, and supporting the development of secondary care staff. You will build strong relationships with hospital personnel and external partners to integrate tobacco dependency support across services and strengthen referral pathways. Responsibilities also include managing a caseload, maintaining accurate and confidential client records in line with ABL Health policies, engaging and recruiting clients through hospital and community events, supporting service administration, and contributing to service development and improvement. The postholder will attend relevant stakeholder and service meetings, participate in programme development within secondary care, and complete ongoing training to maintain knowledge of evidence-based practice. This is a varied and rewarding role requiring a motivated, organised and proactive individual who can effectively prioritise workload, use sound judgement, and support individuals to improve their health and wellbeing.
Skills and Competencies Required
- Be an experienced Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner within the community. (Training will be given)
- Experience of working with evolving and developing services
- Positive and proactive outlook with the ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.
- Adept in communication; A strong communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, staff, and volunteers at all levels.
- Build strong relationships, foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders throughout community settings.
- Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
- Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
Our Values:
The post holder will be expected to operate in line with our workplace values which are:
People Powered
Bold
Effective
Thoughtful
Employee Benefits:
Birthday Day off
Flexible Annual Leave scheme
Employee Referral scheme
37.5 hours working week
Flu jabs
Blue Light Card
Cycle to work scheme
Leadership and staff away days
Training and Development
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