Job summary
We are looking for an exceptional individual to join our maternity teams as an advisor for Treating Tobacco Dependence.

Working at St Michael's Hospital, you will have an opportunity to support the implementation of the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Treating Tobacco Dependency (TTD) programme to help reduce smoking in pregnancy rates and improve health outcomes.

This role is suitable for individuals currently working in a clinical or non-clinical setting.

Main duties of the job
Within this role, you will:

This postholder will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting pregnant service users, their significant others and families to stop smoking. It focuses on engaging with people in communities and offering them practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals.

The postholder will provide intermediate targeted smoking cessation support throughout pregnancy and the post-natal period, using the support of interventions such as CO monitoring and Nicotine Replacement Therapy, along with administration of the smokefree pregnancy data collection and collation.

The postholder will work and liaise closely with local stop smoking services as well as local Public Health teams. The postholder is responsible for acting as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day to day work and seeking out opportunities to develop and implement stop smoking services in a range of health and community settings.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Details
Date posted: 02 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 4
Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Closing date: 16 November 2026

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE level English and Mathematics or equivalent.
• Essential: NVQ level 3/4 or equivalent health related studies OR substantial successful experience delivering stop smoking interventions/support
• Desirable: Smoking cessation Advisor Intermediate level qualification (or willingness to undertake)

Experience

• Essential: Experience of providing healthcare advice or promoting healthy lifestyle advice to patients or members of the public.
• Essential: Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Essential: Experience of providing help, support and/or counselling on either a one-to-one basis or as part of a group setting.
• Essential: A record of working with pregnant service users.
• Desirable: Experience of providing smoking cessation support.
• Desirable: Experience of developing and delivering successful health promotion interventions.

Skills

• Essential: A good level of understanding of evidence-based practice in relation to smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and benefits to quitting
• Essential: An understanding of human behaviour in relation to making healthy lifestyle changes and decisions
• Essential: The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with professionals/individuals from a variety of different professional background
• Essential: Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and listening skills. A good standard of computer skills.
• Essential: Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload and coordinate own schedule without direct supervision.
• Essential: Accurate and sufficient record keeping
• Desirable: Smoking cessation NCSCT trained. Experience of using Quit Manager or another database/electronic clinical record system.

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.

Contact
Treating Tobacco Dependency Lead (Maternity), Jesal Mehta, Jesal.Mehta@nbt.nhs.uk, 07407817480

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