Locality Lead

Queen Mary University of London - Wolfson Institute of Population Health

About the Role

This post contributes to the operational delivery of the Unit’s Specialist Tobacco Cessation Service and supports other projects and activities undertaken by the Unit, including research and teaching.

Locality Leads provide logistical and operational support to the Specialist Tobacco Cessation Service Manager by ensuring clinical governance compliance and service delivery aligns with local authority contract specifications. The role provides guidance to Stop Smoking Advisors, who deliver multi-session behavioural support to people who smoke or use other tobacco products and wish to quit. These roles act as the single point of contact with health and social care professionals and the wider team.

About You

The post requires a strong academic background and excellent communication skills to support effective engagement with members of the public and healthcare professionals. The role includes delivery of clinics outside normal office hours and therefore requires flexibility in working arrangements.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Health and Lifestyle Research Unit, within the Centre for Public Health and Policy, is directed by Professor Hayden McRobbie. It provides Specialist Tobacco Cessation Services for three London boroughs, a Weight Management Clinic for Tower Hamlets, and conducts research into smoking and weight management. The team includes academic staff and operational service teams, comprising Research Health Psychologists, Research Fellows, Stop Smoking Advisors, and Administrators.

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.

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.