Workplace Wellbeing Advisor

Job description

Job summary

This is a highly rewarding role where you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to peoples lives while contributing to the ambition of creating a smoke-free generation. As a Workplace Wellbeing Advisor, you will play a key role in delivering evidence-based, equitable stop smoking services across Gloucestershire, helping to reduce health inequalities and support individuals to improve their health. The role focuses on working directly with employers and employees to provide smoking cessation support within workplace settings, with particular emphasis on reaching those in routine and manual occupations. The successful candidate will be able to work flexibly, both independently and collaboratively, as part of a wider team committed to improving community health and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will work with employers and occupational health teams to promote smoke-free workplaces and deliver place-based smoking cessation services that support employees to quit smoking. You will provide evidence-based stop smoking interventions in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme, delivering support through one-to-one sessions, drop-ins, group programmes, telephone and online support. The role involves motivating and empowering clients to address nicotine addiction, providing education on smoking cessation and behavioural change, and supporting individuals to set realistic and sustainable goals. You will collaborate with a range of professionals to embed smoking cessation within routine care, lead peer support groups to help prevent relapse, and ensure services maximise health gains while reducing health inequalities. You will also analyse service and population data to understand local needs, deliver services across diverse community and workplace settings, maintain accurate records in line with ABL Health policies, and effectively prioritise a varied workload to meet service demands. The post will work under the line management of the Workplace Wellbeing Programme Lead and will play a key role in embedding the service across workplaces in the borough.

About us

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective, and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role is extremely rewarding you will be making adifference to peoples lives and contributing towards creating a smoke freegeneration. The role of the Workplace Wellbeing Advisor is to support thedelivery of evidenced based, equitable stop smoking services to help to reducethe inequalities throughout Gloucestershire. This will focus on supportingpeople to quit within a workplace setting, with particular emphasis on clientswho work in routine and manual roles. It is essential that the postholder canwork flexibly, independently and as part of a team.

Training will be given to ensure staff /applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Work with employers/occupational health toinfluence smoke free workplaces and deliver placebased smoking cessationservices to support employees.

Motivate and empower clients to make changes toaddress their addiction.

Explain to clients the principles of thenicotine and Stop Smoking Service to enable them to make informed -choices.

Deliver evidence-based stop smokinginterventions, these include one to one, drop in, group sessions, telephone, oron-line support, these must be in accordance with the NCSCT Standard TreatmentProgramme.

Work with other professionals to embed smokingcessation as part of routine client care.

Maximise the impact of smoking cessation onhealth gains and reduce health inequalities.

To understand the analysis of health andequalities data including service data identifying local need to inform localservice need.

Provide a high quality, efficient andcost-effective services throughout a diverse range of community settings.

Lead peer support group sessions for successfulquitters following intervention to prevent relapse.

Provide evidence-based education in all aspectsof smoking cessation and behavioural change as well on-going motivationalsupport.

Work with individuals to set realisticsustainable goals.

Ensure all client and service records are up todate, accurate and satisfy the ABL Health documentation policies.

You will be a motivated,passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience insmoking cessation or addiction.

This role will bedemanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. Itwill be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competingdemands and workload effectively to specific timescales.
Duties and Responsibilities
This post will work under theline management of the Workplace Wellbeing Programme Lead. The role will bevaried, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all localworkplaces across the borough.

Skills and Competencies Required
Be an experienced Specialist Stop SmokingPractitioner within the community. (Or willing to undergo trainingprovided to become one)

Experience of working with evolving and developing services

Positive and proactive outlook withthe ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the higheststandards and outcomes.

Adept in communication; A strongcommunicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience includingclients, staff, and volunteers at all levels.

Build strong relationships, fostertrust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders throughout communitysettings.

Quality driven; you naturally seekhigh standards and actively seek to improve them.

Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

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

Job description
Job responsibilities

This role is extremely rewarding you will be making adifference to peoples lives and contributing towards creating a smoke freegeneration. The role of the Workplace Wellbeing Advisor is to support thedelivery of evidenced based, equitable stop smoking services to help to reducethe inequalities throughout Gloucestershire. This will focus on supportingpeople to quit within a workplace setting, with particular emphasis on clientswho work in routine and manual roles. It is essential that the postholder canwork flexibly, independently and as part of a team.

Training will be given to ensure staff /applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Work with employers/occupational health toinfluence smoke free workplaces and deliver placebased smoking cessationservices to support employees.

Motivate and empower clients to make changes toaddress their addiction.

Explain to clients the principles of thenicotine and Stop Smoking Service to enable them to make informed -choices.

Deliver evidence-based stop smokinginterventions, these include one to one, drop in, group sessions, telephone, oron-line support, these must be in accordance with the NCSCT Standard TreatmentProgramme.

Work with other professionals to embed smokingcessation as part of routine client care.

Maximise the impact of smoking cessation onhealth gains and reduce health inequalities.

To understand the analysis of health andequalities data including service data identifying local need to inform localservice need.

Provide a high quality, efficient andcost-effective services throughout a diverse range of community settings.

Lead peer support group sessions for successfulquitters following intervention to prevent relapse.

Provide evidence-based education in all aspectsof smoking cessation and behavioural change as well on-going motivationalsupport.

Work with individuals to set realisticsustainable goals.

Ensure all client and service records are up todate, accurate and satisfy the ABL Health documentation policies.

You will be a motivated,passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience insmoking cessation or addiction.

This role will bedemanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. Itwill be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competingdemands and workload effectively to specific timescales.
Duties and Responsibilities
This post will work under theline management of the Workplace Wellbeing Programme Lead. The role will bevaried, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all localworkplaces across the borough.

Skills and Competencies Required
Be an experienced Specialist Stop SmokingPractitioner within the community. (Or willing to undergo trainingprovided to become one)

Experience of working with evolving and developing services

Positive and proactive outlook withthe ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the higheststandards and outcomes.

Adept in communication; A strongcommunicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience includingclients, staff, and volunteers at all levels.

Build strong relationships, fostertrust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders throughout communitysettings.

Quality driven; you naturally seekhigh standards and actively seek to improve them.

Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Higher level education or health/social care/public health/ professional qualification, or experience working within smoking cessation other addiction or behaviour change.

Desirable

• NCSCT Practitioner Relevant degree.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of engagement work with key partners within the community.
• Understanding concepts of behaviour change and how to implement these.
• Understanding and evidence of adhering to information governance policies.

Desirable

• Experience of developing and delivering training to target audiences
• Experience of supporting occupational or workplace
• health initiatives.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Higher level education or health/social care/public health/ professional qualification, or experience working within smoking cessation other addiction or behaviour change.

Desirable

• NCSCT Practitioner Relevant degree.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of engagement work with key partners within the community.
• Understanding concepts of behaviour change and how to implement these.
• Understanding and evidence of adhering to information governance policies.

Desirable

• Experience of developing and delivering training to target audiences
• Experience of supporting occupational or workplace
• health initiatives.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

ABL Health Ltd
Address

Healthy Lifestyles Gloucestershire

Eastgate Street

Gloucester

GL1 1PX

United Kingdom

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