Smoking Cessation Team Leader
| Posting date: | 23 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £39,548 to £42,248 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | Huntingdon, PE29 3AD |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Ref/1735/6200 |
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead on a new pilot project delivering a bespoke smoking cessation service for the homeless and multiple disadvantage population across Cambridgeshire.
This pilot service is being grant funded by Public Health on an annual basis with the pilot stage expected to last three years.
Smoking rates are incredibly high among adults experiencing homelessness, with rates of 76-85% being reported. However at least 50% of those who smoke and are experiencing homelessness want to quit but face barriers to quitting, including accessing information about quitting and support, peer group pressure, and use of smoking to relieve boredom and/or stress. Poor mental health, a higher use of alcohol and illicit drugs, along with the challenges of being homeless make effective smoking cessation support harder to access and quitting harder to sustain. This service is part of the government’s ambition to make England smokefree by 2030 (smoking rates of 5% or less).
This service is being overseen by Changing Futures and Housing First, two services within the County Council who have extensive experience working with people facing multiple disadvantage. You will be working with the managers from these services to set up the service and will line manage two Smoking Cessation Advisors. The approach will be innovative and bespoke, meeting the individuals where they are. In the setting up stage the Team Leader will be making links with partner agencies across the county to raise awareness of the service and what it has to offer, as well as recruiting the two Smoking Cessation Advisors, with the support of your line manager.
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
What will you be doing?Once in post you will be offering support and guidance to the Smoking Cessation Advisors to provide a flexible and trauma informed, assertive approach to support individuals to quit smoking. You will maintain accurate up to date records on the relevant case management systems and collect and provide information in line with service requirements.
You will attend multi-agency meetings at operational level, and support the line manager in providing monitoring reports, attend monitoring meetings and liaise with funders on key issues relating to the Smoking Cessation Service.
About youYou will be passionate about improving people’s health outcomes, a great leader and someone who is keen to share your knowledge and experience with others. As such you will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in health and social care and preferably have experience as a NCSCT practitioner. You will have a high level of interpersonal skills, undertaking multi-agency work with partner organisations, providers, individuals, families and carers.
You must:
Have a relevant health or social work qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience in the field of smoking cessation in the community.
Have an interest in working with people facing multiple disadvantage, such as homelessness, mental health, drug and alcohol, criminal justice and domestic abuse.
Able to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification.
Please apply with a personal statement ensuring you explain how you meet the personal specification, what interests you about the role and what you can bring to it.
This is a full time, fixed term post for 1 year. Continuation beyond this is dependent on securing further funding.
For more information or to arrange to have a chat about this opportunity please contact Andrew Moore at andrew.moore@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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