Specialist Health Advisor | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	11 November 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£27,485 - £30,162 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	11 December 2025
Location:	Halifax, HX3 0PW
Company:	Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7609836/372-CORP1974-A

Summary

The long-term plan gives commitment that all people admitted to hospital and those who are pregnant that smoke will be offered NHS Funded tobacco treatment services by 2023/2024.

The Specialist Health Advisor role will provide smoking cessation support to patients who are admitted as an inpatient to CHFT, following the maternity pathway or attendee in ED. This will include smoking cessation support and advice to access pharmacotherapy e.g. Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and including vapes. Providing ongoing support to people to quit, both in hospital as an inpatient and following discharge.

The smoking cessation service will increase the support we offer to people accessing our services, to help them to stop smoking or to reduce harm from tobacco and be smoke-free. The service will also help keep our hospital sites and grounds smoke-free and help protect all patients, staff and visitors.

The Trust aims to design and implement services, policies and measures that meet the diverse needs of our service, population and workforce, ensuring that none are placed at a disadvantage to others.
• Promote the health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering specialist stop smoking advice, information and support.
• Make contact withpatients/women who smoke upon admission or at their pregnancy booking appointment and attend A&E. Actively try to recruit into the smoking cessation service.
• Encourage patients to change their behaviour (e.g. to try a quit attempt/abstain, to try stop smoking medication, to accept a referral for further support).
• Work withpatients to change their behaviour to improve their health by stopping smoking
• Use persuasive skills to encourage patients to change their behaviour (e.g. to try a quit attempt/abstain, to try stop smoking medication NRT, to accept a referral for further support).
• Ensure robustdischarge planning to meet the needs of the patient’s ongoing stop smoking support, including arranging onward referral/appointment (e.g. to a community stop smoking service, community pharmacy), signposting (GP, self-help resources), agreeing follow-up appointments/contacts, co-ordinating continued supply of medication or prescription, feeding back to health care partners e.g. GP/primary care
• Deliver stop smoking assessments, specialist advice and support, including advice on stop smoking pharmacotherapy and e-cigarettes, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face to face and virtual working



CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

The postholder will be responsible for the following duties:


• Promote the health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering specialist stop smoking advice, information and support.
• Make contact with patients/women who smoke upon admission or at their pregnancy booking appointment and attend A&E. Actively try to recruit into the smoking cessation service.
• Encourage patients to change their behaviour (e.g. to try a quit attempt/abstain, to try stop smoking medication, to accept a referral for further support).
• Work with patients to change their behaviour to improve their health by stopping smoking
• Use persuasive skills to encourage patients to change their behaviour (e.g. to try a quit attempt/abstain, to try stop smoking medication NRT, to accept a referral for further support).
• Concentration required to prepare reports and check data.
• Frequent interruptions from phone calls, personal visits and urgent work which would require shifting focus of attention and dealing with urgent matters as they arise.
• The work to be undertaken will be unpredictable in terms of working closely with many patients on a daily basis who will have varying needs, requiring frequent mental effort to adapt and respond appropriately.
• Mental effort required to adapt stop smoking advice and support depending on the patients’ needs.
• Mental effort required to quickly assess whether a patient can be approached to offer support.
• Mental effort required to effectively communicate with a patient who does not wish to stop smoking but who would benefit from support e.g. to abstain whilst in our care.
• Manage own caseload of patients and responsible for all associated tasks, including follow-up visits, and managing diary commitments.
• Will have some exposure to sensitive emotional or distressing circumstances depending on the patient, they might be angry or upset when asked about their smoking status.
• Act as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day-to-day work.
• Support clinical staff to provide more effective stop smoking support for their patients, through providing up to date information and guidance.
• Provide training to new colleagues on smoking cessation services and a range of options that are available and educate CHFT colleagues and patients.
• Persuade other staff groups to support stop smoking activity with their patients and within their departments more generally, identifying and supporting smoke-free champions across the Trust.
• Ensure robust discharge planning to meet the needs of the patient’s ongoing stop smoking support, including arranging onward referral/appointment (e.g. to a community stop smoking service, community pharmacy), signposting (GP, self-help resources), agreeing follow-up appointments/contacts, co-ordinating continued supply of medication or prescription, feeding back to health care partners e.g. GP/primary care
• Deliver stop smoking assessments, specialist advice and support, including advice on stop smoking pharmacotherapy and e-cigarettes, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face to face and virtual work and will require working closely with partners including Trust clinicians and pharmacy colleagues, Community Stop Smoking Service, and community pharmacists. For maternity patients the advisor will continue to provide support throughout the pregnancy.
• Speed and accuracy required for care planning, data inputting and report writing.
• Maintain and order stock control of NRT/e-cigarettes rotation and accurate records of stock supplied and or returned. Manoeuvring trolley to and from the A&E department that contains heavy resource materials.
• Manoeuvring heavy boxes of e-cigarettes several times a day, unload crates and add stock to cupboard and shelves for safe storing.
• Lifting and transporting education and training materials and equipment.
• Physical effort required to visit patients throughout the Trust.
• Physical effort required to ensure appropriate resources are to hand for every patient interaction e.g. CO monitoring equipment and disposables, health promotion resources, demonstrating stop smoking medication available to the patient.
• Locating patients as and where required throughout the Trust sites. At times, visiting patients in other locations will also be required e.g. community venue, home visit.
• Responsible for own management of day-to-day workload.
• Communicate with a wide range of health professionals and other staff to advise them on effective methods of stop smoking behavioural support.
• Undertake Carbon Monoxide (CO) testing for patients who engage with the service. Both at first contact with the service and 28 days following discharge (where possible) if required on this pathway.
• Develop individually tailored stop smoking support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs and monitoring and adjusting plans as required.
• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the service, including the completion of the minimum data set (NHS England mandatory requirement). This will include following up patients following discharge to monitor stop smoking outcomes.
• Implement new services throughout the Trust and help imbed across different departments, maintain and update knowledge, competence and skill with a particular focus on new developments for stop smoking.
• Plan and organise own daily activities, visiting a range of patients across the Trust.
• Plans will require adjusting depending on patient needs and, for example, if a patient has been moved or is unable or unwilling to engage.
• Work closely with Community Stop Smoking Services and other providers ensuring a smooth hand over of patient care where appropriate.
• Ensure administrative duties are carried out efficiently and effectively to meet the needs of the service.
• Attend meetings as and when required, preparing agendas, and may include taking notes and preparing minutes, both formal and action plans
• Be able to support other services using transferable skills as a Health advisor when and as required.

This job description is an outline only and is not definitive or restrictive in any way. It will be regularly reviewed and may be amended in the light of changing circumstances following consultation with the post holder.


This advert closes on Sunday 16 Nov 2025