Job Title:
Agency: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Gloucestershire, Stroud, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 27,485 – 30,162 £ / Year
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 base in Stroud to support our dedicated therapy teams in providing Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to our public. This role will be relevant to those who are interested in starting a career as a qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWPs). We pride ourselves on 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.
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 candidates will be able to request this upon completion of the local induction, which we expect to take a few months.
- We would expect the preferred candidate to be in post by the end of February 2026.
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.
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: 17 December 2025
How to Apply;
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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