Salary: £25,000 per year
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Kent
Closing Date: 1st September 2026
Please quote job reference: ABL 887e
One You Kent Service overview:
One You Kent is Kent’s free, countywide lifestyle and wellbeing service, supporting adults to make positive, sustainable changes to improve their health and reduce the risk of long-term conditions. The service provides evidence-based support including smoking cessation (whole of Kent), weight management, physical activity and healthy lifestyle interventions (East Kent only), delivered through a strengths-based, person-centred approach. Working closely with GP practices, Primary Care Networks, local authorities and community and voluntary sector partners, One You Kent is embedded within local communities to ensure support is accessible, inclusive and responsive to local need. The service plays a key role in reducing health inequalities across Kent through partnership working, community engagement and flexible delivery models.
Purpose of the Role
The role of the Stop Smoking Practitioner within One You Kent is to deliver high-quality, evidence-based stop smoking support to residents across Kent, with a specific focus on reducing health inequalities and improving population health outcomes.
The postholder will provide targeted and equitable stop smoking interventions to priority populations, including people living in areas of deprivation, individuals with mental health needs, young people, and those with long-term conditions or recently discharged from hospital.
The practitioner will work flexibly across community, health, and outreach settings, contributing to the wider One You Kent agenda by supporting behaviour change, prevention, and early intervention. The role requires the ability to work independently while also contributing effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will motivate, support, and empower individuals to address tobacco dependence and achieve sustained quit outcomes through the delivery of evidence-based smoking cessation interventions tailored to individual needs. This will include providing one-to-one, group, drop-in, telephone, and digital support across a variety of community and healthcare settings. You will ensure clients are fully informed about the principles and options available within the stop smoking service, enabling them to make informed decisions about their quit journey, while supporting individuals to set realistic, achievable, and sustainable goals, including harm minimisation approaches where appropriate. The role involves working collaboratively with health, social care, and community partners to embed stop smoking support within routine care pathways, particularly for priority groups, and contributing to reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes across Kent’s diverse communities. You will deliver evidence-based education on tobacco dependence, cessation methods, behaviour change, and harm reduction, while leading or contributing to peer support and relapse prevention initiatives for successful quitters. Responsibilities also include managing a caseload effectively, maintaining accurate client records and data in line with One You Kent, local authority, and national requirements, and using health needs and inequalities data to inform service delivery and identify opportunities for improvement. In addition, you will engage and recruit clients through outreach and community engagement activities, contribute ideas to support the development and enhancement of stop smoking pathways, maintain up-to-date knowledge of tobacco control policy and emerging research, and actively participate in service meetings, stakeholder forums, supervision, and training to support continuous improvement and service performance.
Skills and Competencies Required
· A strong understanding of tobacco dependence, addiction, and behaviour change principles.
· A positive, proactive, and compassionate approach with the ability to motivate and support individuals through change.
· Excellent communication skills, with the ability to adapt messages to suit diverse audiences, including clients, clinicians, and partners.
· Ability to build trusting and effective relationships with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders.
· Quality-driven approach with a commitment to high standards, continuous learning, and service improvement.
· An inclusive mindset, valuing diversity and remaining open to new ideas, innovation, and evidence-based practice.
Employee Benefits:
- Birthday Day off
- Flexible Annual Leave scheme
- Employee Referral 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