Stop Smoking Coach (Norwich) na Reed

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed Wellbeing is a public service provider delivering lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health.

Pay Range

£24,750 - £31,500 PRORATED

Job Description

Are you skilled in building a supportive, non-judgemental environment with people from all backgrounds?

Are you passionate about supporting people to make healthier lifestyle choices?

Then consider the role of a Stop Smoking Coach at Reed Wellbeing!

Please note, this is a part time role for 2.5 days a week, and will require flexibility to work evenings and weekends.

Internal applications for this role close on 10th November 2025.

Formed in 2015, Reed Wellbeing has expanded rapidly, developing, and delivering evidence-based lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health. Guided by psychologists, dietitians, physical activity experts and other specialists our local teams support people to make sustainable, positive behavioural changes using engaging and interactive interventions that address individuals’ needs.

What is the job is about?

Stop Smoking Coaches are critical to the successful delivery of Reed Wellbeing’s world class evidence-based health and wellbeing behavioural lifestyle interventions. Comprising of both group-based and one-to-one health and wellbeing interventions, the Stop Smoking Coach will be responsible for delivering a series of stop smoking appointments over a 12-week period with the intention of supporting a participant through their quit journey with behavioural support and pharmacotherapies.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Delivering the ‘Reed Wellbeing Stop Smoking’ Program and other elements of service in a manner that engages and interests all participants on a 1:2:1 and group basis.
• Capturing key metrics at different points in the participants’ journey i.e. monitoring and recording participants’ progress on their quit date.
• Liaising with professionals including GPs and primary care staff to promote and generate referrals to the service.

What’s in it for you?

Alongside a generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. All travel for sessions will be reimbursed, and you will have access to the full range of Reed Wellbeing benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time)     
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with:

Required skills and experience:

• REPs Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification or equivalent; or
• Level 3 qualification in health improvement or promotion or public health or equivalent (eg. City & Guilds Level 3 Health Trainer or equivalent); or
• Level 3 qualification in nutrition; or
• Level 3 Training qualification (eg. PTTLs/Award in Education & Training); or
• NCSCT Certificate in Assessment of Knowledge & Skills to become an accredited and registered Smoking Cessation Practitioner including the following areas smoking cessation, mental health, pregnancy and post-partum period, VBA and second-hand smoke.
• Driver licence and access to a car is essential

Willingness and flexibility to travel with access to own car to deliver programmes across designated region.

Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.

• Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups (e.g. pregnant smokers, smokers with mental illness, routine and manual workers, young people)
• Experience of/interest in working with individuals or groups to achieve behavioural or lifestyle change.
• Non-judgemental, professional

Desirable Attributes:

• Experience in using coaching skills to help individuals to improve their chances of quitting smoking
• Experience of using behavioural techniques to help individuals improve their chances of quitting smoking
• Fluency in community languages. Community languages may include: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Vietnamese, Dari, Yoruba, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Guajarati, Polish, Serbian and Greek (dependent on location of service delivery).
• An understanding of current guidelines and good practice for delivering stop smoking services (e.g. NCSCT National Standard Treatment Programme)
• An understanding of the lifestyle and behaviour challenges that can impact on a participant making necessary changes to bring about sustained health improvement (e.g. Stopping smoking, Weight loss, increased physical activity, reduction in alcohol intake).

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity.  We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.