Treating Tobacco Dependency Advisor

North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) have merged as of 1st July 2026 to become Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. This creates an exciting future that brings together the best of both organisations. As a single, strong and sustainable organisation, we will not only be able to deliver better outcomes for our patients and fairer care for our population, but it will also provide greater opportunities for our people.

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Job Overview

We are looking for an exceptional individual to join our maternity teams as an advisor for Treating Tobacco Dependence.

Working at St Michael's Hospital, you will have an opportunity to support the implementation of the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Treating Tobacco Dependency (TTD) programme to help reduce smoking in pregnancy rates and improve health outcomes.

This role is suitable for individuals currently working in a clinical or non-clinical setting.

Main duties of the job

Within This Role, You Will

This postholder will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting pregnant service users, their significant others and families to stop smoking. It focuses on engaging with people in communities and offering them practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals.

The postholder will provide intermediate targeted smoking cessation support throughout pregnancy and the post-natal period, using the support of interventions such as CO monitoring and Nicotine Replacement Therapy, along with administration of the smokefree pregnancy data collection and collation.

The postholder will work and liaise closely with local stop smoking services as well as local Public Health teams. The postholder is responsible for acting as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day to day work and seeking out opportunities to develop and implement stop smoking services in a range of health and community settings.

Working for our organisation

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. 

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached as PDFs to this advert.

Main Duties And Responsibilities Of The Post

To plan and deliver stop smoking advice and support sessions, including advice on stop smoking medications, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This may involve individual, telephonic, on-line and group work sessions in a variety of settings and venues.

• Identify and approach service users who are eligible for tobacco dependence conversations and treatment in a variety of different settings. These may be in a clinical area, virtually or in a persons home. Follow service users through their engagement with the service to the location of their care provision in order for integrated care.
• Develop individually tailored support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs.
• Provide general health, lifestyle advice and support to people using the service e.g. healthy eating, physical activity, stress management. This may include individual and group-based interventions, signposting and referring to other health, community, and voluntary services.
• Participate in educating pregnant service users, their significant others and families about the benefits of stopping smoking in pregnancy and give support to those service users, significant others and families wanting to quit. Promote smoke free homes and support and advise service users, significant others and families about passive smoking.
• Deliver Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring to a high standard and engage in the data collection and collation of CO rates in pregnancy and post-partum.
• Engage with the targeted Smoking Cessation intervention, keeping accurate records and enable good data collection. Maintain accurate up to date and comprehensive records at all times.
• Ensure that the relevant equipment is provided and maintained on an agreed schedule.
  
  

Report any failings of equipment or other environmental factors to the Clinical Lead.

• Respond effectively to referrals within stated timescales self-referrals from the individuals, and those from colleagues/other services.
• To be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of patient/client feedback, offering recommendations as part of the team to improve services.
• Be aware of how to report incidents, concerns or complaints and escalate any concerns or complexities to the Clinical Lead
  
  

Monitoring And Administrative Tasks

• To contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the service, including the completion of the minimum data set requirement. This will include following up quitters who do not attend for planned support.
• Maintain accurate patient and staff records in line with Trust guidelines.
• Ensure administrative duties are carried out efficiently and effectively in order to meet the needs of the service.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GCSE level English and Mathematics or equivalent.
• NVQ level 3/4 or equivalent health related studies OR substantial successful experience delivering stop smoking interventions/support
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Smoking cessation Advisor Intermediate level qualification (or willingness to undertake)
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of providing healthcare advice or promoting healthy lifestyle advice to patients or members of the public.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience of providing help, support and/or counselling on either a one-to-one basis or as part of a group setting.
• A record of working with pregnant service users.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of providing smoking cessation support.

Experience of developing and delivering successful health promotion interventions.

Skills

Essential criteria

• A good level of understanding of evidence-based practice in relation to smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and benefits to quitting
• An understanding of human behaviour in relation to making healthy lifestyle changes and decisions
• The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with professionals/individuals from a variety of different professional background
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and listening skills.
• A good standard of computer skills.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload and coordinate own schedule without direct supervision.
• Accurate and sufficient record keeping
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Smoking cessation NCSCT trained.
• Experience of using Quit Manager or another database/electronic clinical record system.
  
  

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
• BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

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