Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

The closing date is 13 July 2025

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?

We are excited to be able to offer an Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner role at our bases throughout our county to support our dedicated therapy teams 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.

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. This involves presenting to groups of up to 35 patients at a time.

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 a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Date posted

25 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-25-508

Job locations

Stanway Centre

123 Swindon Road

Cheltenham

GL51 9EZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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

Desirable

Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.
Able to facilitate large and small psycho educational groups
Ability to be organised, resilient, work under pressure and manage own personal stress

Desirable

Ability with a computer-based information system and to record all client activity on the system

Person Specification

Qualifications

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

Desirable

Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.
Able to facilitate large and small psycho educational groups
Ability to be organised, resilient, work under pressure and manage own personal stress

Desirable

Ability with a computer-based information system and to record all client activity on the system

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).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stanway Centre

123 Swindon Road

Cheltenham

GL51 9EZ

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stanway Centre

123 Swindon Road

Cheltenham

GL51 9EZ

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)