Smoking Cessation Adviser Apprentice
THRIVE TRIBE LTD
London (E20 3BS)
Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 23 September 2026
Contents
Summary
The purpose of the role is to support people to improve their health through quitting smoking. This is achieved through providing pharmacotherapy and behaviour change support. We also deliver marketing and engagement efforts to promote the service and the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle.
- Wage
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£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Community health and wellbeing worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm, with a 30 minute lunch. There may be the opportunity for flexible working over evenings and weekends if the candidate is looking for alternative hours.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Friday 16 October 2026
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
A typical day as a Stop Smoking Advisor might include :
- Delivering evidence-based interventions that focus on smoking
cessation, behaviour change, and psychological support to save
lives by helping smokers quit for good - Running stop smoking clinics across different settings by working
with clients on both a one-to-one and group basis - Working with partner organisations and colleagues in Primary
Care to help improve patient uptake and meet targets - Provide tailored or adapted programmes focused on specific
priority groups - Ensuring an excellent and safe experience for clients, in alignment
with our policies and procedures - Engaging in training relevant to your role, such as NCSCT Stop
Smoking training and Behaviour Change Level 1 and 2 - Working with colleagues across all of our Thrive Tribe services to
contribute to new projects and service developments – we’re
always looking to share knowledge and resources - Ensuring due consideration is given to Information Governance
and Clinical Governance legislation, requirements and guidance
Where you'll work
Here East
London
E20 3BS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
Training course
Community health and wellbeing worker (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- recognise, and help others to also recognise, the factors that impact on a person’s health and wellbeing that they can or cannot control or influence.
- assist individuals, groups and communities to recognise their needs, what is important to them, and their strengths in relation to their health and wellbeing.
- help people, groups and communities to identify and address barriers that can be overcome to achieve better health and wellbeing.
- work with people and communities to identify and access local resources and assets that support their health and wellbeing.
- work with people and communities so that they continue to make changes and solve problems on their own.
- build partnerships and connections with local people, groups and organisations to reach shared solutions to local needs or issues.
- work with, support or supervise people working as volunteers whilst recognising the boundaries of their roles.
- recognise whether non-statutory community and voluntary groups and services are safe and sustainable to support people’s health and wellbeing needs, and escalate any concerns.
- identify where different organisations collaborate successfully or interface seamlessly and build on these strengths to extend provision.
- identify and highlight competition or conflict between services where this does not work in the interests of the local community or works against the best use of local assets.
- research local provision, including online, for a wide range of interventions, projects and services that can support individuals and communities who are seeking to better manage their health and wellbeing.
- keep information on local and digital provision up to date.
- identify barriers preventing individuals from accessing local services, including how services are promoted or communicated.
- receive and manage referrals recognising situations where appropriate onward referral, escalation or signposting can be made within scope of practice.
- manage people’s personal data safely and securely when completing and storing records or sharing data.
- recognise when someone is in distress or crisis and how to ensure that the right support is available for them at the point of need.
- develop relationships with local health and wellbeing service providers to ensure appropriate referrals or signposting can be made and the service offer is understood.
- manage a caseload and potential waiting lists and be able to prioritise in line with service guidance within scope of own practice.
- help people to identify the key issues impacting on their health and wellbeing, actively listening to a person’s story without judgement.
- work with individuals or groups to navigate health-related and service-related information to make decisions about their health and wellbeing.
- work with individuals and groups who want to make changes to their behaviours and lifestyle choices to improve their health and wellbeing.
- use behaviour change tools and techniques to develop and agree a plan of action, or set goals with a person to help them to address the issues and priorities they have identified regarding their health and wellbeing.
- help people to review and access services relevant to them and their needs to optimise access and choice, including services that can address wider issues (such as social, financial or environmental) affecting their health and wellbeing.
- work with individuals to support self-care behaviours that will continue beyond the engagement of health and wellbeing services.
- deliver interventions that meet the needs of local communities including the consideration of cultural and faith-based factors.
- support local communities through the implementation of strategies and policies that improve health outcomes and address health inequalities.
- facilitate access to and promote services delivered by a range of public and voluntary sector agencies in the community, and services that are accessible digitally or online.
- apply the most recent evidence to improve the effectiveness of strategies, policies and interventions.
- communicate complex public health messages to people in a way that is relevant and meaningful to them.
- communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds, including professionals from different sectors, and citizens of different cultures.
- facilitate consistent and helpful communications for people to make local services easier to understand and access.
- facilitate communication and collaboration between people, communities and service providers where better connections and networks would support easier access and better provision.
- act in accordance with relevant legislation, local policies and protocols regarding information governance, data security, data sharing and record keeping when handling people’s personal data and information.
- use different types of data and information to identify priorities and measure health outcomes.
- use recognised tools and data so that changes to people’s health and wellbeing can be measured or monitored at an individual, group or community level.
- seek people’s consent to record and use their data, explaining to people who use services how their data and information will be used, and how it will be stored safely.
- contribute to service evaluation by using different types of data and information and different types of evaluation.
- work in partnership with people and groups when implementing policies and protocols in their communities.
- recognise when the support needs of people or communities are beyond the scope of the role, and escalate in a timely manner particularly if a person is ‘at risk’.
- represent the interests of people when engaging with service providers, while managing expectations regarding service availability and access.
- identify and apply ethical frameworks and guidance relevant to practice in public or population health.
- keep a record of training and development opportunities that have been accessed and how these have informed their practice.
- maintain high standards of professional and personal conduct, including duty of care for the safety and welfare of self and others.
- engage with performance appraisal and reflective practice in line with organisational procedures and management processes.
- recognise, and help others to also recognise, the factors that impact on a person’s health and wellbeing that they can or cannot control or influence.
- assist individuals, groups and communities to recognise their needs, what is important to them, and their strengths in relation to their health and wellbeing.
- help people, groups and communities to identify and address barriers that can be overcome to achieve better health and wellbeing.
- work with people and communities to identify and access local resources and assets that support their health and wellbeing.
- work with people and communities so that they continue to make changes and solve problems on their own.
- build partnerships and connections with local people, groups and organisations to reach shared solutions to local needs or issues.
- work with, support or supervise people working as volunteers whilst recognising the boundaries of their roles.
- recognise whether non-statutory community and voluntary groups and services are safe and sustainable to support people’s health and wellbeing needs, and escalate any concerns.
- identify where different organisations collaborate successfully or interface seamlessly and build on these strengths to extend provision.
- identify and highlight competition or conflict between services where this does not work in the interests of the local community or works against the best use of local assets.
- research local provision, including online, for a wide range of interventions, projects and services that can support individuals and communities who are seeking to better manage their health and wellbeing.
- keep information on local and digital provision up to date.
- identify barriers preventing individuals from accessing local services, including how services are promoted or communicated.
- receive and manage referrals recognising situations where appropriate onward referral, escalation or signposting can be made within scope of practice.
- manage people’s personal data safely and securely when completing and storing records or sharing data.
- recognise when someone is in distress or crisis and how to ensure that the right support is available for them at the point of need.
- develop relationships with local health and wellbeing service providers to ensure appropriate referrals or signposting can be made and the service offer is understood.
- manage a caseload and potential waiting lists and be able to prioritise in line with service guidance within scope of own practice.
- help people to identify the key issues impacting on their health and wellbeing, actively listening to a person’s story without judgement.
- work with individuals or groups to navigate health-related and service-related information to make decisions about their health and wellbeing.
- work with individuals and groups who want to make changes to their behaviours and lifestyle choices to improve their health and wellbeing.
- use behaviour change tools and techniques to develop and agree a plan of action, or set goals with a person to help them to address the issues and priorities they have identified regarding their health and wellbeing.
- help people to review and access services relevant to them and their needs to optimise access and choice, including services that can address wider issues (such as social, financial or environmental) affecting their health and wellbeing.
- work with individuals to support self-care behaviours that will continue beyond the engagement of health and wellbeing services.
- deliver interventions that meet the needs of local communities including the consideration of cultural and faith-based factors.
- support local communities through the implementation of strategies and policies that improve health outcomes and address health inequalities.
- facilitate access to and promote services delivered by a range of public and voluntary sector agencies in the community, and services that are accessible digitally or online.
- apply the most recent evidence to improve the effectiveness of strategies, policies and interventions.
- communicate complex public health messages to people in a way that is relevant and meaningful to them.
- communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds, including professionals from different sectors, and citizens of different cultures.
- facilitate consistent and helpful communications for people to make local services easier to understand and access.
- facilitate communication and collaboration between people, communities and service providers where better connections and networks would support easier access and better provision.
- act in accordance with relevant legislation, local policies and protocols regarding information governance, data security, data sharing and record keeping when handling people’s personal data and information.
- use different types of data and information to identify priorities and measure health outcomes.
- use recognised tools and data so that changes to people’s health and wellbeing can be measured or monitored at an individual, group or community level.
- seek people’s consent to record and use their data, explaining to people who use services how their data and information will be used, and how it will be stored safely.
- contribute to service evaluation by using different types of data and information and different types of evaluation.
- work in partnership with people and groups when implementing policies and protocols in their communities.
- recognise when the support needs of people or communities are beyond the scope of the role, and escalate in a timely manner particularly if a person is ‘at risk’.
- represent the interests of people when engaging with service providers, while managing expectations regarding service availability and access.
- identify and apply ethical frameworks and guidance relevant to practice in public or population health.
- keep a record of training and development opportunities that have been accessed and how these have informed their practice.
- maintain high standards of professional and personal conduct, including duty of care for the safety and welfare of self and others.
- engage with performance appraisal and reflective practice in line with organisational procedures and management processes.
Training schedule
- The apprenticeship is delivered as a weekly day release at our campus in Stratford, E15.
- Level 3 Community Health and Wellbeing
- Behaviour, Skills and Knowledge
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
The role requires travel across the City of London and the Borough of Hackney to deliver smoking cessation clinics and attend health promotion events.
About this employer
We deliver Smoking Cessation support to the residents of the City of London and the Borough of Hackney
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
There is an opportunity that the job role could become a full-time role following the completion of the 12 month apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055046.
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Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 11:59pm)