About the role
Salary: £28000.00 to £30000.00
ABL Health have expanded the Kent stop smoking offer with a Specialist Stop Smoking Outreach Service, commissioned by Kent County Council. This transformative service seeks to work collaboratively with communities and Secondary Care to transform the lives of the local Kent population. The service will support residents to help them stop smoking and improve their wellbeing - all embedded in sustainable behaviour change.
As the Service Lead, you will provide day-to-day leadership and professional support to a team of Specialist Stop Smoking Advisors and an Administrator, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based tobacco dependency interventions to priority community groups and the CoSTED Programme across Kent. You will lead service planning, development and continuous improvement, using audits, observations, performance reviews, feedback and evaluation to maintain high standards of practice and drive positive outcomes. You will oversee performance against KPIs, ensure accurate and timely client records and service data, produce high-quality reports, and support robust governance processes to ensure the service remains safe, effective, responsive and well-led. Working closely with clinical and professional leads, the data team and senior management, you will identify opportunities to improve service delivery, increase referrals and strengthen outcomes. You will also build effective relationships with stakeholders across community, primary and secondary care settings, support referral pathways and feedback processes, deliver brief stop smoking advice training to professionals, contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, campaigns and social value initiatives, and represent the service professionally at partnership meetings and external events.
you will lead a team to provide targeted outreach, flexible, bespoke tobacco dependency support, with a focus on priority cohorts where smoking prevalence is high and engagement requires a consistent innovative co-productive approach. The priority cohorts you will be supporting are: