Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

The role of the Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) team leader will involve delivering coordination and supervision of PWP's within the NHS Gloucestershire Talking Therapy (IAPT) service North Team, providing caseload and clinical skills supervision to trainee and qualified PWP's. The role will be multi-faceted and will involve consultation, education, training and supervision as well as carrying a reduced clinical caseload. You will be required to contribute to the smooth running of all aspects of the service where the PWP role has an influence, ensuring that assessments and ongoing treatment are delivered at a high-quality level and consistent with operational standards.

Potential candidates will hold a Post Graduate Certificate (PG Cert) for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies for a minimum of 2 years, and will have had previous experience of working with individuals experiencing mental health difficulties within Primary Care Services. You must be prepared to undertake further training in delivering supervision if you do not hold this qualification. This post requires a high level of communication skills, including effective liaison with key staff both within service and the wider organisation and NHS. The post holder must be able to demonstrate the ability to work under pressure within a new role in a developing service.

We have in excess of 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 Survey gives 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 aGreat Place to Work.