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Job reference: 221471
Salary: Band 5 (£33,247 - £41,424)
Job closing date: 12/08/2025
Job Type: Personal and Social Care
Location: Fife Wide
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37
Job posted date: 29/07/2025
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Fife
Department: Health Promotion

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Health Promotion Fife is looking for a full time Stop Smoking Advisor to support the delivery of the Fife Health & Social Care Partnership’s Smoking Cessation Local Delivery Plan Target for 2025/26. The Stop Smoking Service contributes towards improving the health of the local population in line with national and local stop smoking strategies and policy.

The post holder will work closely with the Tobacco Lead in the delivery of targeted stop smoking interventions, use community engagement approaches, undertake awareness raising initiatives and support referral opportunities to the Stop Smoking Service. The postholder will have particular responsibility for:

  • Delivery of evidence based stop smoking interventions across Fife, ensuring that the work targets people/families living in deprived circumstances and specific groups in a range of settings for example communities, primary care, workplaces etc
  • Increasing engagement at community level within the most deprived communities and inequalities groups
  • Undertaking client assessments, make appropriate pharmacotherapy decisions, ongoing client support and undertake 4 and 12 week follow-ups.

You will be required to demonstrate effective engagement strategies and approaches to work with the 4 priority groups to support referrals to the service. Experience of delivering behavioural change models, and health improvement knowledge and skills is desirable. You will be required to demonstrate your understanding of health inequalities and how this relates to smoking tobacco and vaping.

You should have a relevant professional or academic qualification or have significant experience in stop smoking support delivered on a one to one and group basis. This is a non nursing post.

Informal Enquiries: Email Patricia Allan (patricia.allan3@nhs.scot) or talk to Patricia on Tel: 0800 025 3000 Mobile - 07845 410708 after reading the application pack.

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application. Please be advised that this job role does not qualify for a skilled worker visa/ sponsorship.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Fife welcomes applications from all sections of society.

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