Job overview

As our new Tobacco Dependency Advisor, you’ll work in our mental health services to support patients to reduce or stop smoking.  As a developmental post, we will support and encourage your career progression within our Trust.

People with severe mental illness are more likely to experience poorer physical health than the general population. In Coventry and Warwickshire, we want to be a lead for reducing health inequalities and this an exciting post to support this ambition.

You’ll be at the forefront of this work, providing 1:1 behavioural stop smoking support and advice for people who wish to quit and to support temporary abstinence during a hospital admission. This will be for all acute adult inpatients, using the support of interventions such as brief advice, Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). 

You’ll also deliver tobacco harm reduction assessments, advice and support sessions, including advice on stop-smoking medications, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face-to-face sessions in a variety of settings and venues across the Trust.

You’ll promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service by signposting them to healthy lifestyle advice and support services.

This role offers a genuine opportunity to reach a wide number of people with severe mental illness and address one of the biggest determinants of physical health; smoking.  

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached job description and person specification for more information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements. 

Working for our organisation

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• flexible working opportunities
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.