Stop Smoking Advisor

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Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

Are you passionate about supporting others with their health by building upon sustainable long-term changes?

We are looking to recruit two Stop Smoking Advisors on 4-year fixed term contracts, to join the North Northamptonshire Public Health Team’s Stop Smoking Service. You will be part of our highly skilled team who are dedicated to supporting our local residents who smoke to stop smoking. This is an exciting time to join our stop smoking service, as we have received additional funding to expand our service and support more people to quit smoking.

This is a hybrid role with its base at Sheerness House in Kettering, with clinics able to be delivered virtually and face-to-face, therefore applicants should be able to travel between locations in the North Northamptonshire area.

Your application should be structured on the essential and desirable criteria in the job description and person specification.

The two posts are fixed term appointments for a 4-year period.

The closing date for these posts is Wednesday 12th February 2025, 4pm.

In-person interviews will be held between Monday 24th February and Thursday 27th February.

If you have any further questions about this role, please contact smokefree@northnorthants.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

As a stop smoking advisor, you will support clients over 12-weeks to quit smoking successfully. You will do this by delivering evidence-based smoking cessation interventions including behavioural counselling and recommending stop smoking medications. The role requires managing your own caseload of clients, working within recommended protocols and guidance and recording progress of clients on an IT system. You will report to a Stop smoking specialist and may also support broader community projects being undertaken by the stop smoking service.

About you

We are seeking applicants with excellent personable and motivational skills, who are passionate about supporting people to make positive change. The successful applicants will also have effective organisational and communication skills, which are essential for managing a caseload and delivering individual clinics and other project work. A willingness to undertake the relevant training will be required. Above all, we are keen to attract people who will embrace the values and behaviours of North Northamptonshire Council to support services which positively impact our clients.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)