Job responsibilities
This role is extremely rewarding in making a difference to peoples lives. The role of the Workplace Health Advisor is to support the delivery of evidenced based services to help to reduce the inequalities throughout the contracted localities. This will include the delivery of services within areas of most deprivation. It is essential that the postholder can work flexibly, independently and as part of a team.
This Post holder will always be trained to NCSCT level 2 stop smoking practitioner level. With an expectation to support the service in deliver of stop smoking clinics via face to face or telephone.
Training will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.
Your key responsibilities will be:
Community and Workplace Engagement
- To engage with local businesses, build a portfolio, and assess workforce needs to support referral routes into the Stop Smoking Service.
- Collaborate with external organisations to support and promote wellbeing-at-work practices.
- Support efforts to reduce health inequalities within workplace and community settings.
Client-Focused Smoking Cessation Support
- Motivate and empower clients to address nicotine addiction and adopt healthier behaviours.
- Explain the principles of nicotine addiction and the Stop Smoking Service to support informed client choices.
- Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions (one-to-one, drop-in, group sessions, telephone, or online), in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
- Work with individuals to set realistic and sustainable quit goals.
- Provide ongoing motivational support and education on behavioural change techniques.
- Lead peer support groups for successful quitters to prevent relapse.
Collaborative Practice
- Work with other professionals to embed smoking cessation as part of routine client care.
- Maximise the health impact of smoking cessation and contribute to reducing health inequalities across the community.
Service Development and Data Use
- Analyse health and equalities data, including service-level data, to identify and respond to local needs.
- Contribute to the delivery of high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective services across diverse community settings.
Administrative and Record-Keeping
- Ensure all client and service records are accurate, up to date, and comply with ABL Health documentation standards.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in smoking cessation or addiction.
This role will be demanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.
Duties and Responsibilities
This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.
Skills and Competencies Required
Be an experienced Workplace Health 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.
Organisational and Time Management Skills Capable of managing a caseload efficiently while balancing administrative and outreach responsibilities.
Client-Centred Approach Demonstrate empathy, compassion, and cultural sensitivity in supporting clients through behaviour change.
Business Engagement and Relationship Management Skilled at engaging and building sustained relationships with a wide range of employers, HR professionals, and workplace wellbeing leads.
Standard Information
Information Governance
Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.
The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.
Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Safeguarding is Everyones Business
ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABLs employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABLs safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.
Smoke Free
ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.
Training
The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.
The ra nge of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.
Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.
