Tobacco Dependency Practitioner for Community Mental Health

Tobacco Dependency Practitioner for Community Mental Health

Salary: £26,000 per year

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - Fixed Term 12 months

Location: Wirral

Closing Date: 22nd December 2025

Please quote job reference: ABL 807b

Role Purpose

The Government has set ambitious targets to reduce the prevalence of smoking nationally to 5% by 2030. Mental Health service users will die on average 10-20 years earlier than their non-smoking peers. Helping these clients to stop smoking will have the greatest impact on reducing health inequalities.

As a Mental Health Tobacco Dependency Practitioner, you will be an integral part of Smoking Cessation in the acute setting, ensuring a medical model of care for tobacco dependency is an integrated part of routine client care by all health professionals. Ultimately this programme will lead to the most significant referral route for the overall smoking cessation service within the borough.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Embed smoking cessation / tobacco dependency into routine community mental health care
• Assist clinical teams in providing advice to help tobacco users to stop smoking or using other forms of tobacco
• Ensure all tobacco dependency interventions comply with NICE, NCSCT
• Work cohesively with other services to ensure multi agency working is integrated into tobacco dependency
• Identify opportunities to develop and improve services for clients
• Contribute to the development of community Mental Health staff
• Be responsible for the assessment, planning and delivery of a programme of smoking cessation / tobacco dependency care to clients with Mental Health conditions in the community

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive individual with experience in smoking cessation / tobacco dependency.

This role will be demanding as the programme develops and becomes integrated as part of routine clinical care. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.

Duties and Responsibilities

This post will work under the line management of the ABL Health Head of Service. The role will be varied, challenging and rewarding as the services develop within Mental Health settings as part of the national plan.

Skills and Competencies Required

• Be an experienced Smoking Cessation / Tobacco Dependency Practitioner ideally within an Acute health system
• Experience of evolving and developing services within a complex health environment
• Positive and proactive outlook with the ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the highest standards and outcomes
• Adept in communication; a strong communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients and staff at all levels
• Build strong relationships, foster trust and co operation among colleagues, stakeholders throughout the Acute settings
• Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them

Employee Benefits

• Birthday Day off
• Flexible Annual Leave scheme
• 37.5 hours working week
• Flu jabs
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• Leadership and staff away days
• Training and Development

Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role