Job summary

Are you interested in a career with an established NHS Talking Therapies service based in Gloucestershire, are you dedicated, organised and passionate about mental health? If so read on.

We are excited to be able to offer an Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner role at our Cheltenham base to support our dedicated therapy team in providing Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to our public. These roles will be relevant to those who are interested in starting a career as a qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs). We pride ourselves with our training schemes and the opportunities we provide for job progression within the service and the high standard of therapy we provide to our public.

We will be interviewing on 7th January 2025.

Please be aware that if we receive a high volume of applications, the vacancy may be closed early.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will assist PWPs in co-facilitating face-to-face and online psycho-educational courses to patients across the county.

Assisting in administrative tasks such as writing referrals, clinical notes and collecting data & feedback from patients.

Developing our service by performing outreach to local teams within the trust, as well as external agencies and stakeholders such as GPs and local community offer regular opportunities for Continuing Professional Development as well as reflective practice in clinical supervision and have fully funded access to the Bespoke training service.

Flexible working arrangements within hours per week, with core service hours of 8am-8pm.

We currently offer a hybrid working pattern for staff and the candidates will be able to request this on completion of local induction and their line managers discretion.

About us

We have more than 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views ( It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that :

• believe they are making a positive difference to patients / service users;
• would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. We want to know what matters to you and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description / Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026).

Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Driving Licence

Essential