Stop Smoking Advisor at Queen Mary University of London
Job Description
About the Role
Stop Smoking Advisors provide multi-sessional behavioural support and advice on stop smoking medicines to people from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and ages. They will be required to work flexibly across different satellite sessions ensuring their skills and expertise are fully utilised. They will contribute to the activities of the Health and Lifestyle Research Unit. The unit specializes in health behaviours and provides smoking cessation and weight programme services for three local boroughs as well as innovative research into both smoking and weight gain.
About You
The post holder will have a good educational background and experience working in healthcare settings (or another relevant subject). You will be confident in using computer software to run activities and have the ability to organise and prioritise your own workload. We are looking for someone to join our team who is hard working, a good communicator and happy to work as part of a team.
About the Institute/Project
The Wolfson Institute of Population Health harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health and preventive medicine. The Institute is organised into five research centres and the Centre for Public Health & Policy (CPHP) draws together groups focussing on women’s health, global public health, the national diet, and individual health and lifestyle.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
The post is based at the Stepney Green Campus. It is full time fixed-term appointment until 31 August 2024 (with the possibility of extension until 31 August 2025, contingent upon the renewal of grant funding). The proposed start date is 01 April 2024. The starting salary will be Grade 3, spine point 19 (£31,421) inclusive of London Allowance.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
