About this role
Job summary
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and proactive Smoking Outreach Worker to lead the strategic and operational delivery of smoking cessation initiatives within General Practice settings. This role plays a pivotal part in supporting the Trust's smokefree ambitions and improving population health outcomes across Hampshire.
Working in close partnership with Hampshire County Council Public Health, NHS departments, and wider community stakeholders, you will drive the implementation of tobacco control programmes that strengthen referral pathways, enhance patient engagement, and embed consistent smokefree practices across primary care.
You will take responsibility for developing and maintaining integrated electronic clinical systems, ensuring accurate patient record management, and generating targeted cohort lists to support effective outreach. The role requires a high level of initiative, specialist knowledge, and resourcefulness to coordinate programme delivery, support staff training, and champion new smokefree referral pathways for patients, staff, and visitors.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about public health and behaviourchange interventions to make a meaningful impact within a supportive and forwardthinking NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
The smokefree outreach worker will promote a clear smoking cessation referral pathway, and be supportive of implanting new systems, collaborative working and sharing learning for practice staff, patients and visitors on-site by:
* Embedding a smoking cessation policy, protocol, and onward referral pathway into GP settings.
* Working closely with partners including clinicians, social prescribers, health coaches, mental health teams, pharmacy colleagues, domiciliary and Hampshire Smokefree advisors to embed a smokefree culture into the GP setting.
* Promoting all available smokefree training.
* Acting as the Smokefree champion, promoting the smokefree message in day-to-day work activities and across the site.
* Providing outreach to recorded smokers in the form of telephone calls, SMS / email communications, NHS App messaging or at events.
* Striving for excellence and aiming for quality of quits, through delivering Smokefree Very Brief Advice interventions, confident conversations
* Where applicable, across primary and secondary care services work with the IT and digital teams to streamline or integrate a smoking cessation referral template into the clinical system (Emis, SystmOne, Accurx, iPlato, Pharmoutcomes etc).
* Supporting quarterly and annual evaluation(s) for the above-mentioned activity and service outcomes.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated to GCSE (or equivalent) grade C / level 4 standard pass or above in English and Maths. Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work based learning and mandatory training.
Desirable
Specific training in health promotion interventions National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training -- Practitioner Training / Very Brief Advice+ / Swap-to-Stop specialist modules, Motivational interviewing Knowledge of NRT used in treatment
Experience Essential
Experience of working in Health and Social Care setting or community Experience of providing healthcare, healthcare advice or health improvement/promotion advice to patients or members of the public Experience of using Microsoft Office software
Desirable
Experience of delivering stop smoking brief interventions Experience of providing help, behavioural support and/or counselling on a one to one or group basis Experience of working in a health improvement related field Experience using EMIS Previous smoking cessation lived experience
Additional Criteria Essential
Excellent telephone communication and interpersonal skills Very good written and verbal communication skills Knowledge and experience of database management and an understanding of its importance in the effective day to day delivery of health services Ability to present data in a clear and easily understood format - both verbally and in writing, including the use of Excel Ability work on own initiative. Proven team worker with ability to motivate others. Aware of own strengths and development needs. Flexible, enthusiastic and committed Ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a team.
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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Stoke Road Medical Centre
The Medical Centre, 68 Stoke Road
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 1PA
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)