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EWS Tobacco Dependency Specialist Advisor
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Main area Stop Smoking Project
Grade Band 4
Contract Fixed term: 12 months (12 months from start date)
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will include evening and weekend)
Job ref 828-PROVIDE4280
Employer
Provide CIC
Employer type NHS
Site 900 The Crescent Town Colchester
Salary £28,392 - £31,157 Per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 25/09/2026 23:59
Job Overview
The Essex Wellbeing Service (EWS) Tobacco Control Team is a passionate and dedicated team committed to improving the health and wellbeing of Essex residents. Through the delivery of evidence-based smoking cessation support, the team plays a vital role in reducing health inequalities, preventing smoking-related illness, and helping individuals make positive, lasting changes to their lives.
Working as part of a supportive and forward-thinking service, the Tobacco Control Team provides personalised support to a diverse range of clients, helping them to overcome nicotine dependence and achieve a smoke-free future. The team works closely with healthcare professionals, community organisations, and local partners to ensure smoking cessation services are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of local communities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is making a real difference every day. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about public health, motivated by helping others, and committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred support. In return, you will be part of a welcoming and collaborative environment where innovation, professional development, and continuous improvement are encouraged and valued.
Main duties of the job
- To manage caseloads efficiently and in line with service priorities.
- To engage with individuals by telephone, using a holistic triage approach to assess readiness for change and identify the support needed to improve their lifestyle and wellbeing.
- To support the SPA in onboarding and training new smoking specialist services.
- To deliver training to SPA Care Navigators on the new smoking specialist service introduced into the SPA.
- The role involves supporting all individuals, with a strong focus on including vulnerable adults, MH, seldom heard communities. LTCs through the Single Point of Access and within clinic settings on an unsupervised basis. This may include instructing, assessing, providing advice and/or guidance on well-being, and requires full adherence to safeguarding and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure all interactions comply with relevant policies, procedures, and professional standards.
- When required, assist in delivering and promoting community health events and awareness campaigns across Essex to raise awareness about smoking cessation services.
- Accurately record and manage client information using systems such as SystmOne and Priority Digital Health.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
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We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see full job description for a detailed description of the role and a list of the main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant Foundation degree in health and social care or community development
- Or Relevant Diploma plus relevant experience health improvement and community development
- Making Every Contact Count training or willingness to undertake it
Desirable criteria
- Mental Health First Aid Level 2
- Stop Smoking
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working in public health.
- Clear understanding of behaviour changes methods and evidence of applying it
- Clear and demonstrable understanding of health inequalities and the main issues of health affecting the local community.
- Evidence of experience in partnership working and community development
- Experience of multi-agency working
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to support behaviour change by applying behaviour change techniques.
- Able to manage own time.
- Excellent communications skills both written and verbal.
- Ability to interpret individual client data for optimal intervention planning
- Proactive in working collaboratively to achieve individual outcomes.
- Ability to be developmental and creative in approach.
- Solution-focused attitude.
- Must be IT literate with experience of all Microsoft Office applications.
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake further training as appropriate
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- The Post holder be required to work from multiple sites within the locality as well as working from home
- Working in a mobile and agile way
- Flexible working within the operating hours of the service which will include evenings and weekends.
- Car owner/driver or ability to travel independently.
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All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails. As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager. If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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