Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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 groups.We 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 37.5 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 (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

  • 89.7%believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
  • 73.3%would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
  • 82.4%agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
  • 76.7%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.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a subject enabling the post holder to demonstrate psychological mindedness eg psychology, social sciences or health OR Evidence of ability to study successfully at undergraduate year 1 level / Regulated Qualifications Framework Level 5 OR Mental Health Worker (e.g. mental health practitioner) with relevant primary care experiences
  • Significant experience of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.
  • Ability with a computer-based information system and to record all client activity on the system
  • Ability to be resilient, work under pressure and manage own personal stress

Desirable

  • Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
  • Able to facilitate large and small psycho educational groups.

Driving Licence

Essential

  • Access to transport for work purposes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 24 December 2024

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