Tobacco Control Strategic Partnerships Lead

Contract- Temporary Until 31/07/2029 

Hours- 37 per week 

Salary- NJC Grade H6 £65,787 - £72,563 per annum 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a candidate with specialist knowledge of tobacco control and leadership experience to join the Cumbria & Lancashire Public Health Collaborative. The Collaborative is a partnership including the Director’s of Public Health and their senior teams, and NHS partner organisations with the purpose to improve health and wellbeing by working together on innovative and effective interventions and area wide public health programmes.

Working with the Lancashire & South Cumbria Public Health lead for tobacco control based at Blackpool Council, you will be responsible for the strategic co-ordination and proactive management and delivery of the Lancashire & South Cumbria Tobacco Free Strategy. This includes ensuring equitable access to effective NHS Inpatient and Maternity tobacco addiction and treatment services and growing the work to stop people starting to smoke in the first place. You will need to build, promote and maintain strong and effective working relationships and provide system leadership across a variety of partner organisations (statutory and voluntary, local, regional and national) to ensure that the Strategy is delivered successfully.

If you have the experience, knowledge and skills to direct and implement the delivery of the Cumbria & Lancashire Tobacco Free Strategy by co-ordinating tobacco control activity to achieve; increased quit attempts, successful quits and reduced smoking prevalence then we would love to hear from you. 

Applicants seeking part time opportunities are welcome to apply.

Interviews will be held on Monday 29th June

The post is initially until March 2029 but may be extended depending on securing future funding from partner organisations.

Interested? You can find out more about Smokefree Lancashire & South Cumbria here; Smokefree Lancashire & South Cumbria

to view the Job Description.

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This post requires access to PSN (Public Services Network) services or networks and the successful post holder will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure check of unspent convictions through Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). This post is also subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of legal working in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.