Job Details

Smokefree Lancashire has been commissioned to deliver the stop smoking service across 12 districts of Lancashire. Our goal is to make smoking cessation a priority for everyone. We provide advice and information to people who want to quit smoking and develop personalised plans during one-to-one support sessions. We also offer groupwork sessions, pharmacotherapy and deliver training to our partner agencies.

We have an exciting opportunity for 3 Specialist Advisors to join our Smokefree Lancashire service. The new post holders will join our dedicated Telehealth team, providing advice and information to people who want to quit smoking.

• To promote the benefits of stopping smoking and the stop smoking service.
• To work as part of the specialist team providing brief advice and structured programmes.
• Work as part of the NRT and E-cigarette protocol.
• Support key workstreams to ensure that services are appropriately tailored and targeted to specific groups
• Engage with the wider community to increase understanding of the impacts of smoking on health and wellbeing and encourage appropriate referrals.
• Ensure all interventions are recorded accurately through record management systems

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.

• Understanding and knowledgeable of the harmful effects of smoking
• Ability to maintain accurate records of work undertaken
• Be able to work as part of a team
• Respond flexibly to the demands of the post
• Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Show capacity to work alone and ability to keep calm under pressure
• Respond appropriately and proactively to potential challenges in engaging peers and professionals