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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>As the successful applicant you will join our dedicated 24/7 team based in Gloucester A&amp;E Department. You will participate in the provision of a responsive, needs-led mental health assessment and short-term intervention service to people presenting to the General Hospital experiencing mental distress, mental illness and/or self harm.</p>
<p>This role is a role that would have an expectation of working a mixture of days and nights, the frequency of these can be discussed at interview.</p>
<p>We will work with you to ensure that we support your professional and developmental needs, this includes a personalised induction to ensure that you are fully prepared and supported in delivering this service.</p>
<p>Our aim is to work closely with our Acute Hospital colleagues to deliver a pro-active, patient focused service that delivers the right care at the right time and our co-streaming innovation ensures that patients don't have to wait for their mental health care.</p>
<p>If you have excellent interpersonal skills, the desire to deliver high quality care and you want to develop as a professional then we want to hear from you.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul>
<li>Offer an assessment service to patients presenting at the emergency departments with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses</li>
<li>Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the departments</li>
<li>Delivering a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients who have predominantly self-harmed</li>
<li>Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations</li>
<li>Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff</li>
<li>Representing mental health services within the Hospitals Trust.</li>
<li>Providing a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>The qualification, training &amp; experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.</strong></p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>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.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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%.</p>
<p>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.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>01 October 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 6</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
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      £38,682 to £46,580 a year
      
        per annum
      
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  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Full-time,
        
      
        
          Flexible working,
        
      
        
          Compressed hours
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>327-25-818</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>GRH/CGH</p>
      <p>Beacon House, Great Western Road, Gloucester</p>
      <p>Gloucester, GL1 3NN</p>
            <p>GL1 3NN</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.</p> <p><strong>Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.</strong></p> <p>The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit -<strong></strong><strong><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas</a></em></strong></p>
  

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.</p> <p><strong>Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.</strong></p> <p>The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit -<strong></strong><strong><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas</a></em></strong></p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
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          Clinical Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Professional Health or Care Qualification (MHSW, SROT, RMHN, RNLD)</li>
        
        <li>Demonstrate clinical expertise in undertaking Self Harm assessments of adults and young people and/or adults. Demonstrate extensive experience of providing consultation/ training and advice to partner agencies</li>
        
        <li>Proven knowledge and experience of providing effective therapeutic evidence based interventions for individuals following episodes of self -harm</li>
        
        <li>Comprehensive knowledge of the MHA and Mental Capacity Act</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Recognised qualification in a  specific model of therapy e.g.  family therapy, CBT etc.</li>
          
          <li>Significant proven post qualifying experience of working with adults and young people who may present with both physical and mental health needs.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working in a general hospital setting</li>
          
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          Professional
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Demonstrate experience in developing/providing and evaluating professional development and education to a diverse workforce</li>
        
        <li>Demonstrate experience in working and supporting colleagues through the processes of change</li>
        
        <li>Demonstrate experience in the mentorship of students</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Ability to participate in service development processes at a strategic level</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrate experience and ability in the use of IT systems (including EPR)</li>
          
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        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
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            Clinical Experience
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Professional Health or Care Qualification (MHSW, SROT, RMHN, RNLD)</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrate clinical expertise in undertaking Self Harm assessments of adults and young people and/or adults. Demonstrate extensive experience of providing consultation/ training and advice to partner agencies</li>
          
          <li>Proven knowledge and experience of providing effective therapeutic evidence based interventions for individuals following episodes of self -harm</li>
          
          <li>Comprehensive knowledge of the MHA and Mental Capacity Act</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
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            <li>Recognised qualification in a  specific model of therapy e.g.  family therapy, CBT etc.</li>
            
            <li>Significant proven post qualifying experience of working with adults and young people who may present with both physical and mental health needs.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working in a general hospital setting</li>
            
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            Professional
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Demonstrate experience in developing/providing and evaluating professional development and education to a diverse workforce</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrate experience in working and supporting colleagues through the processes of change</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrate experience in the mentorship of students</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
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            <li>Ability to participate in service development processes at a strategic level</li>
            
            <li>Demonstrate experience and ability in the use of IT systems (including EPR)</li>
            
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    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>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.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>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 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>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. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
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      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>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.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>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 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>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. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <p>Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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      <p>GRH/CGH</p>
      <p>Beacon House, Great Western Road, Gloucester</p>
      <p>Gloucester, GL1 3NN</p>
            <p>GL1 3NN</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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          <p>GRH/CGH</p>
          <p>Beacon House, Great Western Road, Gloucester</p>
          <p>Gloucester, GL1 3NN</p>
                    <p>GL1 3NN</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/" target="_blank">https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

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