Smoking Cessation Advisor – Cambridgeshire (County Wide), United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact:
Amy.Watling-Cash@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
About you
You will be passionate about working face-to-face with individuals to improve their health outcomes. As such you will have a minimum of 2 years experience in health and social care and preferably have experience as a NCSCT Stop Smoking Practitioner. You will have a high level of interpersonal skills, undertaking multi-agency work with partner organisations, providers, individuals, families and carers.
You must:
Have a relevant health or social work qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience in the field of smoking cessation in the community.
Have an interest in working with people facing multiple disadvantage, such as homelessness, mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, contact with the criminal justice system or have experienced domestic abuse.
Able to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently. A driver preferably, with access to your own vehicle.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification.
Please apply with a personal supporting statementensuring you explain how you meet the personal specification, what interests you about the role and what you can bring to the service and team.
This is a full time, fixed term post for 1 year. Continuation beyond this is dependent on securing further funding.
PLEASE NOTE: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Interviews to be held: Friday 11th December 2026
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