Smoking Cessation Advisor
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,124 to £32,946 per year |
| Additional salary information: | including London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | Harrow, London |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | JOB0183 |
Summary
Are you a fluent Romanian speaker passionate about health and wellbeing?
Join our established Via service as a Smoking Cessation Advisor and help Romanian-speaking residents in Harrow quit smoking. Your language skills will provide vital, culturally sensitive support to those with limited English, empowering them to make healthier choices.
We’re looking for a committed, organised, and motivated individual who understands the challenges of quitting smoking and wants to make a real difference.
The Role
You will:
• provide evidence-based specialist smoking cessation support to both adult and young people in a variety of settings including, primary care i.e., G.P. Practices, mental health services, maternity unit, educational institutions community settings.
• build relationships to establish referral routes from/to the above groups and deliver stop smoking groups in the community and alongside health and social care professionals, voluntary and community workers in Harrow.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service and help make positive changes in the lives of service users and their families through a non-judgemental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.
The Service
Via Harrow is an established community integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as robust family and carers and service user involvement provision.
Location
Harrow Recovery Centre is at 97 Pinner Road, Harrow, HA1 4ET.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
This is a fixed term role, until 31 March 2026. Full time hours are preferred, but part time hours will be considered.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Dhanusha Balakrishnan, Smoking Cessation Senior Practitioner via Dhanusha.Balakrishnan@viaorg.uk or 07759 131859 or alternatively Allen Quine, Service Manager via Allen.Quine@viaorg.uk or 07973 459001.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 25 June at midnight.
We encourage early applications, as suitable candidates will be invited to interview as they apply, and the advert may close early if the position is filled.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Join our established Via service as a Smoking Cessation Advisor and help Romanian-speaking residents in Harrow quit smoking. Your language skills will provide vital, culturally sensitive support to those with limited English, empowering them to make healthier choices.
We’re looking for a committed, organised, and motivated individual who understands the challenges of quitting smoking and wants to make a real difference.
The Role
You will:
• provide evidence-based specialist smoking cessation support to both adult and young people in a variety of settings including, primary care i.e., G.P. Practices, mental health services, maternity unit, educational institutions community settings.
• build relationships to establish referral routes from/to the above groups and deliver stop smoking groups in the community and alongside health and social care professionals, voluntary and community workers in Harrow.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service and help make positive changes in the lives of service users and their families through a non-judgemental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.
The Service
Via Harrow is an established community integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as robust family and carers and service user involvement provision.
Location
Harrow Recovery Centre is at 97 Pinner Road, Harrow, HA1 4ET.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
This is a fixed term role, until 31 March 2026. Full time hours are preferred, but part time hours will be considered.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Dhanusha Balakrishnan, Smoking Cessation Senior Practitioner via Dhanusha.Balakrishnan@viaorg.uk or 07759 131859 or alternatively Allen Quine, Service Manager via Allen.Quine@viaorg.uk or 07973 459001.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 25 June at midnight.
We encourage early applications, as suitable candidates will be invited to interview as they apply, and the advert may close early if the position is filled.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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