Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

The closing date is 26 June 2026

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 Gloucester base to support our dedicated therapy team in providing Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to the people of Gloucestershire. This role will be relevant to those who are interested in starting a career as a qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP). 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.

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. Some evening work will be required.

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. The successful candidate will be expected to work out of our Gloucester base for at least part of the working week.

When submitting your personal statement we encourage you to use your own wording and not artificial intelligence (AI) software, except for spelling and grammar purposes.

Please note that interviews will be conducted in‑person at our Gloucester base.

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

• 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
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication
• Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
• Able to facilitate large and small psycho educational groups.
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post

• Access to transport for work purposes
• Fluent in languages other than English

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.

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£28,392 to £31,157 a year per annum (pro rata)