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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Are you someone with lived experience of mental health difficulties who wants to use that experience to support others? Do you believe in the power of connection, hope, and personal empowerment? If so, we'd love to hear from you.</p><p>We are recruiting a Mental Health Peer Support Worker (MH PSW) to join the Somerset Team for Early Psychosis (STEP), based in Taunton. This is a unique and rewarding opportunity to support people who are experiencing similar mental health challenges and walk alongside them in their recovery journey.</p><p>As a MH PSW, you will draw upon your personal lived experience of mental health difficulties to offer emotional, practical, and motivational support. You'll become a vital member of a multi-disciplinary team, providing compassionate, peer-based support that goes beyond clinical models.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul><li><p>Use your lived experience to provide mutual, non-judgemental support to people navigating their own mental health journeys.</p></li><li><p>Support people in building strong, healthy relationships and reconnecting with their communities.</p></li><li><p>Help individuals reclaim their identity and overcome stigma associated with mental illness.</p></li><li><p>Encourage personal empowerment by helping people focus on strengths and take control of their recovery.</p></li><li><p>Promote meaning and purpose by supporting people to explore what makes life valuable to them.</p></li><li><p>Maintain appropriate interpersonal and professional boundaries while fostering a sense of trust and equality in peer relationships.</p></li><li><p>Work closely with clinical teams, carers, families, and community services to support integrated care.</p></li></ul><p>Please note: All successful applicants will be required to complete an enhanced Peer Support Training Programme aligned with national competencies.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>At <strong>Somerset NHS Foundation Trust</strong>, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:</p><ul><li><strong>Flexible working options</strong> to help you balance work and life</li><li><strong>NHS pension scheme</strong> for long-term financial security</li><li><strong>Generous annual leave allowance</strong> to recharge and relax</li><li>A strong focus on <strong>career development</strong> to help you grow and achieve your potential</li></ul><p>Additionally, you'll gain access to our <strong>Blue Light Card</strong>, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.</p><p>We are proud to foster a <strong>diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce</strong>, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.</p><p><strong>Why Somerset?</strong> Somerset offers the perfect blend of <strong>idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty</strong>, and <strong>breathtaking coastlines</strong>, with vibrant cities like <strong>Bristol</strong>, <strong>Bath</strong>, and <strong>Exeter </strong>just a short drive away - and only two hours to <strong>London</strong>.</p><p>The region is home to excellent <strong>educational facilities</strong>, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.</p><p><strong>Somerset truly has it all</strong> - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>07 August 2025</p>

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

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
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      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>184-OL-GR-2938</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Foundation House</p>
      <p>Wellsprings Road</p>
      <p>Taunton</p>
      <p>Somerset</p>
      <p>TA2 7PQ</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>This role is grounded in the values of peer support and the belief that lived experience is a powerful tool in supporting recovery. As a Mental Health PSW, your work will include:</p>Peer Support Practice<ul><li><p>Drawing on personal lived experiences to build connections and foster hope.</p></li><li><p>Supporting individuals to develop coping strategies and personal recovery goals.</p></li><li><p>Helping people to engage in meaningful activities and access services.</p></li><li><p>Offering a non-directive presence and validating individual experiences.</p></li></ul>Teamwork and Advocacy<ul><li><p>Collaborating with clinical teams and community organisations to promote recovery-focused care.</p></li><li><p>Bringing a lived experience perspective to team discussions and service planning.</p></li><li><p>Promoting anti-stigma and mental health equality across services.</p></li></ul>Learning and Development<ul><li><p>Participating in supervision, reflective practice, and ongoing training.</p></li><li><p>Completing a nationally recognised peer support training programme within 12 months of starting the role.</p></li></ul>Wellbeing and Professionalism<ul><li><p>Maintaining focus on self-care and personal wellbeing.</p></li><li><p>Understanding professional boundaries, safeguarding protocols, and ethical frameworks.</p></li><li><p>Adhering to information governance and Trust policies.</p></li></ul>
  

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>This role is grounded in the values of peer support and the belief that lived experience is a powerful tool in supporting recovery. As a Mental Health PSW, your work will include:</p>Peer Support Practice<ul><li><p>Drawing on personal lived experiences to build connections and foster hope.</p></li><li><p>Supporting individuals to develop coping strategies and personal recovery goals.</p></li><li><p>Helping people to engage in meaningful activities and access services.</p></li><li><p>Offering a non-directive presence and validating individual experiences.</p></li></ul>Teamwork and Advocacy<ul><li><p>Collaborating with clinical teams and community organisations to promote recovery-focused care.</p></li><li><p>Bringing a lived experience perspective to team discussions and service planning.</p></li><li><p>Promoting anti-stigma and mental health equality across services.</p></li></ul>Learning and Development<ul><li><p>Participating in supervision, reflective practice, and ongoing training.</p></li><li><p>Completing a nationally recognised peer support training programme within 12 months of starting the role.</p></li></ul>Wellbeing and Professionalism<ul><li><p>Maintaining focus on self-care and personal wellbeing.</p></li><li><p>Understanding professional boundaries, safeguarding protocols, and ethical frameworks.</p></li><li><p>Adhering to information governance and Trust policies.</p></li></ul>
    
  


      
  
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        <li>Proven experience of providing Peer Support or Peer Mentoring.</li>
        
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        <li>Experience of drawing directly on own lived experiences of mental health difficulties</li>
        
        <li>Experience of using mental health services such as being a hospital inpatient, housing and community services.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques to support health and well-being</li>
        
        <li>Experience of collaboration and/or working in a person-centred way to help people develop coping and problem-solving skills</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working as part of a team</li>
        
        <li>Experience of communicating in a respectful and non-judgemental way and supporting people in a way that is tactful and sensitive</li>
        
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          <li>Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques to support health and well-being</li>
          
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
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    <p>Somerset NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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      <p>Foundation House</p>
      <p>Wellsprings Road</p>
      <p>Taunton</p>
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          <p>Foundation House</p>
          <p>Wellsprings Road</p>
          <p>Taunton</p>
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            <p><a href="https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

NHS Jobs

Peer Support Worker

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><strong>For those candidates requiring a VISA to work in the UK, please be aware that significant knowledge and experience of at least 2 years, (preferably within the NHS) is required to meet the pay threshold for a Health and Care Visa.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Please do not apply if you are unable to meet these criteria.</strong></p>
<p>The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental distress, or experience of caring for a friend or family member experiencing mental distress. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is achievable.</p>
<p>The Sussex Community Rehabilitation Pathway provides high quality, safe and effective rehabilitation for adults with psychosis and complex mental disorder across Sussex. The service is aimed at helping people achieve their own individual aspirations and to live a meaningful and rewarding life as independently as possible.</p>
<p>Our service has a strong commitment to recovery, multi-disciplinary working, service user involvement, and equality.</p>
  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>As the Peer Support worker you will work collaboratively to assist in improving the wellbeing of service users, families and carers within Community Rehabilitation Service</p>
<p>Examples include:</p>
<ul>
<li>To support individuals who are overcoming mental health challenges in their journey to recovery and wellbeing.</li>
<li>To be a positive role model for service users and use parts of your recovery story, where appropriate, to inspire hope.</li>
<li>To support and enable individuals to resolve conflicts and regain control, responsibility, hope and enjoyment based on the principles of peer supported recovery.</li>
<li>Using a peer approach, working with service users (both individually and/or in groups) to meet holistic needs (e.g. education, welfare, employment, financial, leisure, housing and spiritual), alongside the multidisciplinary care team (MDT).</li>
<li>Supporting service users to engage in participation, co-production and service development opportunities</li>
</ul>
<p>This role is a vital part of our plan to continually improve the service we provide and is aimed at people who have lived experience of using mental health care services. We are looking for people who can use their experience of mental distress, recovery and use of peer networks to inspire others.</p>
<p>We have a strong network of diverse and supportive peer support colleagues who meet regularly as part of peer networking across Sussex. We offer full training to new peer support workers, one-to one peer supervision and ongoing development opportunities.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex.</p>
<p>Working in Sussex:</p>
<ul>
<li>Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed</li>
<li>Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London</li>
<li>With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure.</li>
</ul>
<p>We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission.</p>
      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>06 August 2025</p>

  
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    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>354-AC-21175</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>New Park House</p>
      <p>North Street</p>
      <p>Horsham</p>
            <p>RH12 1RJ</p>
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    <p>To support others who are overcoming mental health challenges in their journey to recovery and wellbeing.</p> <p>To plan, promote and deliver delegated activities in accordance with the service users needs to meet goals identified in the individuals Recovery Plan.</p> <p>For a full outline please see the attached job description and person specification.</p>  <p>Being a car driver is an essential component to this role, due to travelling to rural area's with poor public transport.</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>To support others who are overcoming mental health challenges in their journey to recovery and wellbeing.</p> <p>To plan, promote and deliver delegated activities in accordance with the service users needs to meet goals identified in the individuals Recovery Plan.</p> <p>For a full outline please see the attached job description and person specification.</p>  <p>Being a car driver is an essential component to this role, due to travelling to rural area's with poor public transport.</p>
    
  


      
  
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        <li>A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning</li>
        
        <li>Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills acquired through experience or formal teaching qualification (Band 4)</li>
        
        <li>A recognised Peer Support qualification (Band 4)</li>
        
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          <li>Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills (Band 3)</li>
          
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        <li>Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity</li>
        
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        <li>Experience working as part of a team</li>
        
        <li>Experience of being supervised</li>
        
        <li>Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties</li>
        
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          <li>Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning</li>
          
          <li>Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills acquired through experience or formal teaching qualification (Band 4)</li>
          
          <li>A recognised Peer Support qualification (Band 4)</li>
          
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          <li>Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity</li>
          
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    <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>
  

  


 
  
    
      
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        <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>
      

      
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        <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>
      

      
    
  


      
  
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    <p>Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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      <p>North Street</p>
      <p>Horsham</p>
            <p>RH12 1RJ</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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          <p>New Park House</p>
          <p>North Street</p>
          <p>Horsham</p>
                    <p>RH12 1RJ</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>The Rainbow Mother and Baby Unit is a specialist 6 bedded unit. The unit provides mental health care and treatment for women during the late stages of pregnancy and up to one year after the birth of their baby.</p> <p>The Rainbow Unit aims to:</p> <ul>  <li>Deliver the highest quality of care to mothers and theirbabies in a safe, friendly and supportive environment.</li>  <li>Maintain the safety of all mothers and their babies whilst treating the mother's mental illness.</li>  <li>Offer support to the families and carers involved in the mother's and or baby's care.</li>  <li>Help sustain the developing relationship between mother, baby and other family members.</li> </ul>  <p>Through the understanding of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) in relation to lived experiences within inpatient settings, the hope and reflection of recovery can be promoted within perinatal services</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Using your own lived experiences, the role of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) is to support and understand the impact of accessing services when experiencing mental health challenges.</p>
<p>As a PSW, you will work collaboratively with service users and the wider MDT to support the implementing of care and promoting recovery.</p>
<p>You will provide support and understanding to care givers and family members whilst underpinning recovery principles and socially inclusive practice</p>
<p>PSW's can support in building therapeutic relationships with service users to promote choice, offer advocacy support and understanding of position through lived experiences of being admitted to a Mother and Baby Unit.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;</p> <ul>  <li>Season Ticket Loans</li>  <li>NHS discounts for staff</li>  <li>Excellent Training facilities and opportunities</li>  <li>Buying and Selling annual leave scheme</li>  <li>The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas</li>  <li>Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work</li>  <li>Day One Flexible Employer</li> </ul> <p>The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment</p> <p>Join our Staff bank</p> <p>What is Staff Bank?</p> <p>Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.</p> <p>All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.</p> <p>If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.</p>


      
        
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  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>06 August 2025</p>

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

    
      
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      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,625 to £25,674 a year
      
        per annum, pro rata
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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  <p>364-A-9143-A</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>The Linden Centre</p>
      <p>Broomfield Hospital</p>
      <p>Chelmsford</p>
            <p>CM1 7LF</p>
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    <p>As a Peer support worker, you will have a wide range of responsibilities.</p>
<p> working one to one and supporting service users or patients</p>
<p> helping to support individuals to develop goals</p>
<p> supporting people in care planning</p>
<p> helping people engage with activities</p>
<p> supporting group work</p>
<p> helping support people develop recovery plans</p>
<p> regular 1-1 meetings including review with supervisor to discuss any challenges and talk through sessions</p>
<p> meeting regularly with a small group of volunteers to discuss general topics, daily guidelines, and handovers.</p>
<p> participating in activities such as tutoring, mentoring, or creating and running a workshop for a class as volunteers or one-on-one meetings.</p>
<p> providing guidance, tutoring, and social support to volunteers, fellow students, or others interested in learning more about PSW.</p>
<p> coordinating volunteer opportunities with local non-profit organizations or community groups.</p>
<p> organizing support groups or peer-led clubs focused on PSW.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>As a Peer support worker, you will have a wide range of responsibilities.</p>
<p> working one to one and supporting service users or patients</p>
<p> helping to support individuals to develop goals</p>
<p> supporting people in care planning</p>
<p> helping people engage with activities</p>
<p> supporting group work</p>
<p> helping support people develop recovery plans</p>
<p> regular 1-1 meetings including review with supervisor to discuss any challenges and talk through sessions</p>
<p> meeting regularly with a small group of volunteers to discuss general topics, daily guidelines, and handovers.</p>
<p> participating in activities such as tutoring, mentoring, or creating and running a workshop for a class as volunteers or one-on-one meetings.</p>
<p> providing guidance, tutoring, and social support to volunteers, fellow students, or others interested in learning more about PSW.</p>
<p> coordinating volunteer opportunities with local non-profit organizations or community groups.</p>
<p> organizing support groups or peer-led clubs focused on PSW.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Education
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Evidence of continuing professional and personal development</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Completed Peer Support Worker training</li>
          
          <li>Completed further training within mental health sector</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to demonstrate personal knowledge of recovery from perinatal mental health challenges with lived experience</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with people with mental health challenges and supporting them to access opportunities beyond mental health services</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of positively sharing own life experiences, and personal recovery journey with service users, carers and others</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Education
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Evidence of continuing professional and personal development</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Completed Peer Support Worker training</li>
            
            <li>Completed further training within mental health sector</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to demonstrate personal knowledge of recovery from perinatal mental health challenges with lived experience</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with people with mental health challenges and supporting them to access opportunities beyond mental health services</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of positively sharing own life experiences, and personal recovery journey with service users, carers and others</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <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>
  

  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <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>
      

      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>The Linden Centre</p>
      <p>Broomfield Hospital</p>
      <p>Chelmsford</p>
            <p>CM1 7LF</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://eput.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://eput.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>The Linden Centre</p>
          <p>Broomfield Hospital</p>
          <p>Chelmsford</p>
                    <p>CM1 7LF</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://eput.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://eput.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>This is an exciting arts therapies opportunity with Newham Arts Therapies, working with adult service users with complex mental health needs, in hospital and the community. The clinical provision is to cover for maternity leave, and may include individual and group work. You will be well supported with supervision from very experienced arts therapies clinicians. You will be part of a well-established arts therapies, and specialist psychotherapy service. We are looking for interested applicants who can work autonomously and be part of a very committed team. Team meetings take place on Wednesdays, 9.30-11am online. This full-time fixed-term role may be split across more than one modality, days to be negotiated accordingly.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>You will work as part of Newham Arts Therapies, offering clinical provision, including assessment, individual and group work, to in-patient and community service users with complex mental health needs. This work takes place in different locations, including Newham Centre for Mental Health, 409 High Street and other community locations, and will include picking up ongoing referrals, and setting up of some new work in the community. You will be qualified and registered as an Arts Therapist (art psychotherapy, dramatherapy, music therapy and dance movement psychotherapy), with work experience relevant to the role. We are looking for committed and enthusiastic applicants who want to work as part of a team and contribute meaningfully to service user experience and recovery.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Newham Arts Therapies is a well-established very committed team of therapists. The work is complex and challenging, but we are a close-knit team working together to create best outcomes. We meet regularly for business and clinical meetings, with regular team supervision and reflective practice. Supervision will also be provided on a regular individual basis.</p>
<p>Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>08 August 2025</p>

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

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

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £44,485 to £52,521 a year
      
        per annum pro rata Inc HCA
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time,
        
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>363-NEW7379034</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>409 High Street</p>
      <p>409 High Street</p>
      <p>Stratford</p>
            <p>E15 4QZ</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>For full details of the job and responsibilities please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>For full details of the job and responsibilities please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Education
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Degree in relevant area</li>
        
        <li>MA or equivalent qualification in Arts Therapy Modality</li>
        
        <li>For Art therapist/Art Psychotherapist, Music Therapist &amp; Dramatherapist: Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council</li>
        
        <li>For Dance Movement Psychotherapist: Membership of ADMP UK Professional Register</li>
        
        <li>o For Dance Movement Psychotherapist: Evidence of working towards: UKCP Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist</li>
        
        <li>Membership of Professional Body</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>For Dance Movement Psychotherapist: UKCP Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Pre-arts therapy qualification experience of working in adult mental health</li>
        
        <li>Experience of providing individual and group arts therapy in an adult mental health setting</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working as part of a Multi-disciplinary team</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working as an Arts Therapist in an NHS mental health setting</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li>
        
        <li>Developed interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic relationships to be developed and maintained with clients who have complex needs</li>
        
        <li>Ability to apply specialist skills in individual and group based assessments and interventions.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Other
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Physical skills including specialist use of the body as required to facilitate a wide range of activities both on a one-to-one and group basis, including using equipment as required.</li>
        
        <li>Mental and emotional effort required to undertake intense concentration for clinical interventions on both a one-to-one and group basis.</li>
        
        <li>Active involvement in ongoing professional and team development.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to travel independently across all sites</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to speak a local community language</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Education
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Degree in relevant area</li>
          
          <li>MA or equivalent qualification in Arts Therapy Modality</li>
          
          <li>For Art therapist/Art Psychotherapist, Music Therapist &amp; Dramatherapist: Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council</li>
          
          <li>For Dance Movement Psychotherapist: Membership of ADMP UK Professional Register</li>
          
          <li>o For Dance Movement Psychotherapist: Evidence of working towards: UKCP Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist</li>
          
          <li>Membership of Professional Body</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>For Dance Movement Psychotherapist: UKCP Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Pre-arts therapy qualification experience of working in adult mental health</li>
          
          <li>Experience of providing individual and group arts therapy in an adult mental health setting</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of working as part of a Multi-disciplinary team</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working as an Arts Therapist in an NHS mental health setting</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li>
          
          <li>Developed interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic relationships to be developed and maintained with clients who have complex needs</li>
          
          <li>Ability to apply specialist skills in individual and group based assessments and interventions.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Other
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Physical skills including specialist use of the body as required to facilitate a wide range of activities both on a one-to-one and group basis, including using equipment as required.</li>
          
          <li>Mental and emotional effort required to undertake intense concentration for clinical interventions on both a one-to-one and group basis.</li>
          
          <li>Active involvement in ongoing professional and team development.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to travel independently across all sites</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Ability to speak a local community language</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>
    <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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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <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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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>East London NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>409 High Street</p>
      <p>409 High Street</p>
      <p>Stratford</p>
            <p>E15 4QZ</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.elft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>East London NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>409 High Street</p>
          <p>409 High Street</p>
          <p>Stratford</p>
                    <p>E15 4QZ</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.elft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Arts Therapist

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><strong>We are looking for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to work alongside an integrated mental health team based at HMP Full Sutton.</strong></p><p>Rethink Mental Illness work alongside Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) and Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust to deliver an integrated stepped care mental health service within HMP Full Sutton.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>You will work as part of
an integrated primary care mental health team within the Prison to provide high
volume, low intensity interventions which will be a range of cognitive
behavioural therapy (CBT) based self-management interventions, for clients with
mild to moderate anxiety and depression.
This includes providing guided self-help in both 1:1 and group formats,
in line with the current Step 2 IAPT guidelines. I am an accredited PWP, either with BPS or BABCP</p><p>You will also work
with the following people and teams within Rethink:</p><ul><li>Associate
Director for Criminal Justice and Care Navigation</li><li>Head
Criminal Justice and Secure Care</li><li>Head of Care
Navigation</li><li>Psychological
Wellbeing Practitioners</li><li>Counsellors</li><li>Senior Psychological
Wellbeing Practitioners</li><li>Health and
Wellbeing Coaches</li><li>Care
Navigators</li></ul>  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>The team compromises a range of highly skilled professionals who work collaboratively to provide the highest quality of care for those with mental health needs within the prison and for Rethink Mental Illness employees, this is carried out between 0800 1600 Monday to Friday.</p><p>You will work as part of an integrated care mental health team delivering Step 1 interventions, working alongside other professionals to support the mental health of the prison population.The team support people with a common mental health problem in the self-management of their recovery, building a professional relationship of trust in a non-judgmental manner with every client as a basis for developing and enabling therapeutic relationships.This ranges from providing informal information, support, and signposting, facilitating group activities and forums, to developing and training Peer Mentors and delivering service user engagement activities. You will work alongside the other staff in the mental health team to deliver high quality, mental health support during an individuals time in prison and in onward planning for their release into the community.</p><p>Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity and thats why equity is one of our core values.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>07 July 2025</p>

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

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 5</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £28,407 to £34,581 a year
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>B0008-25-0018</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>HMP Full Sutton</p>
            <p>York</p>
      <p>East Riding of Yorkshire</p>
      <p>YO41 1PS</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p> To accept
referrals via agreed protocols within the service. Make decisions on suitability of new
referrals, adhering to referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to
the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary; or steps-up
the persons treatment to high intensity.</p><p> Assess and
support people with mental health problems in the self-management of their
recovery.</p><p> Undertake
person-centred interviews identifying areas where the person wishes to see
change and or recovery and make an accurate assessment of risk to self and
others.</p><p> Provide
assessment and Low intensity interventions e.g., psycho-educational
interventions, Guided Self Help, drawing from CBT theories and techniques.</p><p> Implement and
support a range of evidence-based interventions utilising a self-management
model of mental health care. </p><p> Attend
multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment.</p><p> Work closely
with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down
arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.</p><p> Ensure that
client confidentiality is protected at all times.</p><p> Record and
evaluate `outcome measures` as part of the ongoing therapy process</p><p> Ensure the
accurate entry of clinical data onto agreed systems, maintaining the highest
standards of clinical record keeping.</p><p> Work in
partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and
non-statutory agencies as appropriate, in relation to continuing care on
release from prison.</p><p>
Adhere
to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts
offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise
waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.</p><p>
Support the collation of
monthly performance data for service management team.</p><p>
Communicate effectively
with patients, stakeholders, colleagues, and relevant professionals, both in
verbal and written form</p><p>
You will have an open and
transparent attitude to work, utilizing all elements of supervision
appropriately </p><p>
Uphold the values of Rethink
Mental Illness at all times and represent the best interests of the company in
all I do</p><p> Flexible approach to work and prepared to provide contingency cover to other prisons if required</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p> To accept
referrals via agreed protocols within the service. Make decisions on suitability of new
referrals, adhering to referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to
the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary; or steps-up
the persons treatment to high intensity.</p><p> Assess and
support people with mental health problems in the self-management of their
recovery.</p><p> Undertake
person-centred interviews identifying areas where the person wishes to see
change and or recovery and make an accurate assessment of risk to self and
others.</p><p> Provide
assessment and Low intensity interventions e.g., psycho-educational
interventions, Guided Self Help, drawing from CBT theories and techniques.</p><p> Implement and
support a range of evidence-based interventions utilising a self-management
model of mental health care. </p><p> Attend
multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment.</p><p> Work closely
with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down
arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.</p><p> Ensure that
client confidentiality is protected at all times.</p><p> Record and
evaluate `outcome measures` as part of the ongoing therapy process</p><p> Ensure the
accurate entry of clinical data onto agreed systems, maintaining the highest
standards of clinical record keeping.</p><p> Work in
partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and
non-statutory agencies as appropriate, in relation to continuing care on
release from prison.</p><p>
Adhere
to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts
offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise
waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.</p><p>
Support the collation of
monthly performance data for service management team.</p><p>
Communicate effectively
with patients, stakeholders, colleagues, and relevant professionals, both in
verbal and written form</p><p>
You will have an open and
transparent attitude to work, utilizing all elements of supervision
appropriately </p><p>
Uphold the values of Rethink
Mental Illness at all times and represent the best interests of the company in
all I do</p><p> Flexible approach to work and prepared to provide contingency cover to other prisons if required</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Successfully completed academic course of study in line with the IAPT Low Intensity National Programme and qualified as a PWP, e.g., Post Grad Diploma in Psychological Therapies.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy. </li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge / relevant experience in other therapy modalities that are relevant to practice as Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (e.g., solution focused therapy, supervision training).</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Post-qualification experience in offering and delivering the full range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions at Step 2.</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of working within a stepped care service with people who have experienced a mental health problem delivering and demonstrating recovery outcomes.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of assessment procedures, screening, referral, record-keeping, and evidence-based brief psychological interventions.</li>
        
        <li>Demonstrates an understanding use of evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients and practice in a non-discriminatory manner, respecting the beliefs and cultural practices of individuals and groups. </li>
        
        <li>Operates at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of using clinical outcome measures to inform practice.</li>
        
        <li>Confident communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.</li>
        
        <li>Good working knowledge of standard IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel, and use of database / information systems.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and be self-reflective in own personal and professional development.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience working in a prison environment or experience of working with offenders.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to prioritise workload demands and positively respond to unforeseen challenges.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to deal with stressful and difficult situations in a calm manner.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to utilise continued professional development, in collaboration with supervisor and line manager to ensure work remains at the highest possible standard.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Successfully completed academic course of study in line with the IAPT Low Intensity National Programme and qualified as a PWP, e.g., Post Grad Diploma in Psychological Therapies.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy. </li>
            
            <li>Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.</li>
            
            <li>Knowledge / relevant experience in other therapy modalities that are relevant to practice as Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (e.g., solution focused therapy, supervision training).</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Post-qualification experience in offering and delivering the full range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions at Step 2.</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of working within a stepped care service with people who have experienced a mental health problem delivering and demonstrating recovery outcomes.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of assessment procedures, screening, referral, record-keeping, and evidence-based brief psychological interventions.</li>
          
          <li>Demonstrates an understanding use of evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients and practice in a non-discriminatory manner, respecting the beliefs and cultural practices of individuals and groups. </li>
          
          <li>Operates at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of using clinical outcome measures to inform practice.</li>
          
          <li>Confident communicator with excellent verbal and written skills.</li>
          
          <li>Good working knowledge of standard IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel, and use of database / information systems.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and be self-reflective in own personal and professional development.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience working in a prison environment or experience of working with offenders.</li>
            
            <li>Ability to prioritise workload demands and positively respond to unforeseen challenges.</li>
            
            <li>Ability to deal with stressful and difficult situations in a calm manner.</li>
            
            <li>Ability to utilise continued professional development, in collaboration with supervisor and line manager to ensure work remains at the highest possible standard.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <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="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>
    </p>
  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <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="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>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Rethink Mental Illness</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>HMP Full Sutton</p>
            <p>York</p>
      <p>East Riding of Yorkshire</p>
      <p>YO41 1PS</p>
    
  

  
    <br>
    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.rethink.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rethink.org/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Rethink Mental Illness</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>HMP Full Sutton</p>
                    <p>York</p>
          <p>East Riding of Yorkshire</p>
          <p>YO41 1PS</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.rethink.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rethink.org/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Band 6 Specialist Psychological Practitioner (2-year fixed term position)</p>
<p>An exciting job opportunity has arisen to recruit a Specialist Psychological Practitioner to support the delivery of a 2-year pilot, community step-down accommodation for women being discharged from secure care. This pilot aims to extend the inpatient treatment model into a community residential setting to promote recovery beyond discharge. The role will provide opportunities for both inpatient and community work, and to be involved in service innovation.</p>
<p>Clinically the role will involve working with women presenting with complex trauma, personality disorder and mental illness, both directly through the provision of specialist psychological interventions and indirectly through supervision, reflective practice, consultation and training. The successful candidate will work alongside MDT colleagues sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of services along the pathway. There will be lots of opportunities for collaborative working with service users and staff, as well as involvement in service innovation and improvement. In relation to the pilot step-down accommodation, you would contribute significantly to the development of the psychological pathway and evaluation of this. Working across both the rehabilitation ward and the step-down accommodation, the post holder will have the opportunity to develop strong therapeutic relationships with services users.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>The role will involve working within the WSBS at Ardenleigh and at our step-down accommodation at Balsall Heath and there will be an expectation to travel between sites. You will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team under the supervision of a registered clinical/forensic psychologist. In your role you will provide psychological support for service users transitioning from inpatient care to community integration. The post holder will support the direct assessment, formulation, and delivery of a range of individual and group interventions addressing emotional, behavioural, and relational factors to improve service user' recovery and wellbeing. Central to the role is working with the wider MDT, to support psychological understanding of a person's difficulties, which will involve providing training and supervision, as well as conducting evaluations of interventions.</p>
<p>We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with, supporting, and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences, including trauma and neglect, and have a history of offending behaviour. This post is best suited to a professional with a background in teaching, counselling, social work, family work or nursing, who has some prior training and experience of delivering psychological interventions. Prior experience of providing support or supervision to a staff group would also be desirable.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.</p>
<p>Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.</p>


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

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

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

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £38,682 to £46,580 a year
      
        per annum, pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>24 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>436-7358078</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Ardenleigh</p>
      <p>Kingsbury Road</p>
      <p>Erdington</p>
            <p>B24 9SA</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Degree or equivalent level of training/education in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years professional practice.</li>
        
        <li>Completed relevant training course in accredited psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, CAT, DBT or Art Psychotherapy) or relevant to discipline and practice</li>
        
        <li>Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e.HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/NMC/BASW</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention.</li>
        
        <li>Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds</li>
        
        <li>Receptivity to understanding of group dynamics and processes</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to work with people with ethnic minority and cultural diverse backgrounds</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Personal
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to manage own anxiety and the anxiety of others, and able to work under pressure using effective problem solving skills</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Experience in delivering individual psychological interventions</li>
        
        <li>Experience in delivering group psychological interventions</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties</li>
          
          <li>Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Degree or equivalent level of training/education in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years professional practice.</li>
          
          <li>Completed relevant training course in accredited psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, CAT, DBT or Art Psychotherapy) or relevant to discipline and practice</li>
          
          <li>Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e.HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/NMC/BASW</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention.</li>
          
          <li>Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds</li>
          
          <li>Receptivity to understanding of group dynamics and processes</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Ability to work with people with ethnic minority and cultural diverse backgrounds</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Personal
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to manage own anxiety and the anxiety of others, and able to work under pressure using effective problem solving skills</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience in delivering individual psychological interventions</li>
          
          <li>Experience in delivering group psychological interventions</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties</li>
            
            <li>Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <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>
    </p>
  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <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>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Ardenleigh</p>
      <p>Kingsbury Road</p>
      <p>Erdington</p>
            <p>B24 9SA</p>
    
  

  
    <br>
    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Ardenleigh</p>
          <p>Kingsbury Road</p>
          <p>Erdington</p>
                    <p>B24 9SA</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Band 6 Specialist Psychological Practitioner - Ardenleigh

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>BAND 6 SPECIALIST PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTITIONER - REASIDE CLINIC</p>
<p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) invite applications specifically for a 12-month fixed term role for REASIDE CLINIC, Rubery, Birmingham - a 92 bedded, medium secure inpatient service for adult males.</p>
<p>We are seeking enthusiastic, innovative and resilient professionals to join our expanding Secure Care and Offender Health Services (SCOH) across the Trust, for the role of Specialist Psychological Practitioner. This role is well suited to professionals working in the mental health or education sector, who have experience of delivering psychological interventions and are keen to develop their knowledge and skill in working psychologically with individuals with complex needs.</p>
<p>We welcome applications from motivated people interested in working directly with individuals with complex presentations, balancing clinical needs with risk management to support and enhance the lives of people who have encountered adverse life experiences, including trauma and neglect, and have a history of offending behaviour. A core part of this role will be to work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of the service.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Post holders, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, will assist in delivering a range of individual and group interventions addressing emotional, behavioural and relational factors in order to improve service users' recovery and wellbeing. The post holders will support the direct assessment, formulation and delivery of interventions to address a full range of complex forensic mental health problems. They will also contribute to the production of risk assessments and behavioural management plans and be key in providing psychologically informed advice and support for those directly involved in the care of the individual. They would also support training, supervision and evaluation of the delivery of individual behavioural management plans, risk management activity and service user involvement. The post holders should have some experience in providing some supervision to a staff group and be able to identify and co-ordinate the need for systemic support. Ideally, post holders may also have a background in some of the following: teaching, counselling, social work, family work or nursing.</p>
<p>We are looking for enthusiastic, robust, resilient, creative, and innovative practitioners interested in working with people who have complex presentations, encompassing risk, personality difficulties and mental health. We have identified resources supporting continuing professional development, including excellent multi-model supervision structures.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.</p>
<p>Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.</p>


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

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

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

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £38,682 to £46,580 a year
      
        per annum, pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>436-7358075</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Reaside Clinic</p>
      <p>Birmingham Great Park</p>
      <p>Birmingham</p>
            <p>B45 9BE</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
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      <p>For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Degree or equivalent level of training/education in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years professional practice.</li>
        
        <li>Completed relevant training course in accredited psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, CAT, DBT or Art Psychotherapy) or relevant to discipline and practice.</li>
        
        <li>Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e.HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/NMC/BASW</li>
        
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          Knowldge
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Receptivity to understanding of group dynamics and processes.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention</li>
        
        <li>Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Ability to work with people with ethnic minority and cultural diverse backgrounds</li>
          
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Experience in delivering individual psychological inteventions</li>
        
        <li>Experience in delivering group psychological interventions</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties</li>
          
          <li>Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
          
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          Personal
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Ability to manage own anxiety and the anxiety of others and able to work under pressure using effective problem solving skills</li>
        
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        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
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            Qualifications
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Degree or equivalent level of training/education in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years professional practice.</li>
          
          <li>Completed relevant training course in accredited psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, CAT, DBT or Art Psychotherapy) or relevant to discipline and practice.</li>
          
          <li>Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e.HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/NMC/BASW</li>
          
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        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Knowldge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Receptivity to understanding of group dynamics and processes.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention</li>
          
          <li>Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Ability to work with people with ethnic minority and cultural diverse backgrounds</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Experience
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience in delivering individual psychological inteventions</li>
          
          <li>Experience in delivering group psychological interventions</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties</li>
            
            <li>Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Personal
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Ability to manage own anxiety and the anxiety of others and able to work under pressure using effective problem solving skills</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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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <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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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Reaside Clinic</p>
      <p>Birmingham Great Park</p>
      <p>Birmingham</p>
            <p>B45 9BE</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Reaside Clinic</p>
          <p>Birmingham Great Park</p>
          <p>Birmingham</p>
                    <p>B45 9BE</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Band 6 Specialist Psychological Practitioner - Reaside Clinic

Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>This is a unique opportunity for a motivated individual who has personal experience with the Criminal Justice System or prison custody.The position is perfect for someone eager to use their Lived experience in prison and the Criminal Justice Service to assist others who have faced similar challenges. You will help them connect with support networks.The outreach Service covers Shropshire, with its base being in Shrewsbury.Training will be given and Experience of support work is desirable but not required as the role depends more upon your ability to use your personal experience to support others and your desire to do so whilst being part of a NHS team that is supportive, approachable and dedicated to the role.The ability to commute independently across the Herefordshire area is essential.Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual. We actively seek peers who have lived experience of both the Criminal Justice System and who have a desire to use their own experiences to help others.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>As a Peer Support Worker, you would be working across the area with people who have come into contact with Liaison &amp; Diversion and then referred over to our Outreach service, building a good working relationship with them and helping them identify their needs alongside a senior Team Member.You will be then working with a caseload of these clients to support them in accessing health and support services for up to three months. You will be working as part of a larger team and under the supervision of Team lead and Senior Peer Support Worker, you will also be working alongside our Navigators and Support Time Recovery Workers and participate in the client's journey from referral to discharge.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Come and work with us at our award-winning NHS Trust, leading the way for trying new and better ways of working to help improve life for our local communities.</p> <p>We have around 9,000 staff who provide physical and mental healthcare, support for people with learning disabilities, and adult social care across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford &amp; Wrekin. We also run regional and national services, including help for new parents (perinatal care), eating disorders, forensic services, sexual health, and support for people in prison with mental health, drug, or alcohol problems.</p> <p>We offer great career development for both clinical and non-clinical roles, with ongoing training and support to help you learn and grow.</p> <p>We are 'United in our Uniqueness' and committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and can be themselves, no matter their background or identity. We want our staff to feel supported and valued, and we aim to build a team that reflects the communities we serve. Together, we can make sure every voice is heard, and every difference is respected.</p> <p><strong>Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications</strong></p> <p><strong>Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.</strong></p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>23 July 2025</p>

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

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
        pa pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>18 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>301-LBG-25-7349305</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>The Redwoods Centre</p>
            <p>Shrewsbury</p>
            <p>SY3 8DS</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong> Working in the Outreach service in West Mercia, with the flexibility of working across the locality Liaison &amp; Diversion Services, dependent on skill and service need. To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users, sharing own narratives to raise aspirations of life. To work primarily in direct work with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager. To help individuals identify strengths, interests and their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals. To support the implementation of groups. To support service users in developing other areas of interest. Draw upon own lived experience to inspire hope, model self-awareness and facilitate service users in developing their own resourcefulness for managing their health and wellbeing. Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable participation in activities, to maximise service user's opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity. Ensure that service users peer recovery goals are integrated into a Resettlement plan. To actively engage with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the needs of the client group are met through promoting recovery orientated, strengths based practice. To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings. To work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance of other professional colleagues within the team. To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks. To have an awareness of the IOH model and pathways. To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the work area. Adapt practice to meet the individuals circumstances, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences. Work collaboratively with members of the Health and Justice Team, HMPP, Health care Professionals and all relevant agencies involved within the role. To make records of work undertaken according to Trust documentation standards. To actively take responsibility for own health and wellbeing discussing/reviewing within supervision as necessary. To be willing to develop self through specialist training opportunities, relevant to your role, as agreed with team supervisor and team manager. To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the work area. To remain up to date and compliant with mandatory training requirements. To undertake other duties as may be required suitable to the banding of the post.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
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      <p><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong> Working in the Outreach service in West Mercia, with the flexibility of working across the locality Liaison &amp; Diversion Services, dependent on skill and service need. To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users, sharing own narratives to raise aspirations of life. To work primarily in direct work with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager. To help individuals identify strengths, interests and their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals. To support the implementation of groups. To support service users in developing other areas of interest. Draw upon own lived experience to inspire hope, model self-awareness and facilitate service users in developing their own resourcefulness for managing their health and wellbeing. Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable participation in activities, to maximise service user's opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity. Ensure that service users peer recovery goals are integrated into a Resettlement plan. To actively engage with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the needs of the client group are met through promoting recovery orientated, strengths based practice. To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings. To work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance of other professional colleagues within the team. To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks. To have an awareness of the IOH model and pathways. To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the work area. Adapt practice to meet the individuals circumstances, including regard for cultural and linguistic differences. Work collaboratively with members of the Health and Justice Team, HMPP, Health care Professionals and all relevant agencies involved within the role. To make records of work undertaken according to Trust documentation standards. To actively take responsibility for own health and wellbeing discussing/reviewing within supervision as necessary. To be willing to develop self through specialist training opportunities, relevant to your role, as agreed with team supervisor and team manager. To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the work area. To remain up to date and compliant with mandatory training requirements. To undertake other duties as may be required suitable to the banding of the post.</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Lived experience of the Criminal Justice System</li>
        
        <li>Willingness to use own experiences to support others</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of supporting people in the community</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Other
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Able to fulfil the requirement to commute across the whole of the West Mercia Area</li>
        
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          <li>Personal values</li>
          
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            Experience
          
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          <li>Lived experience of the Criminal Justice System</li>
          
          <li>Willingness to use own experiences to support others</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
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            <li>Experience of supporting people in the community</li>
            
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            Other
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Able to fulfil the requirement to commute across the whole of the West Mercia Area</li>
          
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            <li>Personal values</li>
            
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>The Redwoods Centre</p>
            <p>Shrewsbury</p>
            <p>SY3 8DS</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.mpft.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
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        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>The Redwoods Centre</p>
                    <p>Shrewsbury</p>
                    <p>SY3 8DS</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.mpft.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><strong>BAND 6 SPECIALIST PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTITIONER (12-month Fixed Term position) on Laurel Personality Focused Recovery Service, Tamarind Medium Secure Service</strong></p>
<p>We are recruiting for a fixed term position on Laurel: a 12 bedded ward for men with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder. The specialist service offers a range of psychological individual and group interventions to help the men to gain insight into their difficulties and their offending behaviour with the overall aims of alleviating distress for the individual, improving emotional regulation, improving pro-social interactions, and reducing levels of risk' both to self and others.</p>
<p>Laurel is one of seven wards at The Tamarind Centre, which is an 89-bedded medium-secure service. The psychology team work across all wards and consist of a range of experienced Practitioner Psychologists, Art Therapist, and Assistant Psychologists.</p>
<p>We welcome applications from people interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part will be working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of the service. We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences and offending behaviour.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Post holders, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, will assist in delivering a range of individual and group interventions addressing emotional, behavioural, and relational factors to improve service users' recovery and wellbeing. The post holders will support the direct assessment, formulation, and delivery of interventions to address the full range of complex forensic mental health problems. They will also contribute to the production of risk assessments and be key in providing psychologically informed advice and support for those directly involved in the care of the individual. They would also support training, supervision, and evaluation of the delivery of individual behavioural management plans, risk management activity and service user involvement.</p>
<p>We are looking for an enthusiastic, robust, resilient, creative, and innovative Specialist Psychological Practitioner interested in working with people with complex presentations, encompassing risk, personality difficulties, and mental health. The service has identified resources for continuing professional development, and excellent multi-model supervision structures. Ideally post holders to have a background in some of the following: teaching, counselling, social work, family work, nursing, registered therapists (CBT, DBT or MBT).</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.</p>
<p>Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.</p>


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

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

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

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £38,682 to £46,580 a year
      
        per annum, pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>436-7358081</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Tamarind Centre</p>
      <p>Yardley Green Road</p>
      <p>Birmingham</p>
            <p>B95PU</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Degree or equivalent level of training/education in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years professional practice.</li>
        
        <li>Completed relevant training course in accredited psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, CAT, DBT or Art Psychotherapy) or relevant to discipline and practice.</li>
        
        <li>Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e.HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/NMC/BASW</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
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          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Experience in delivering individual psychological interventions.</li>
        
        <li>Experience in delivering group psychological interventions.   Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties</li>
          
          <li>Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Skills
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention.   Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds.</li>
        
        <li>Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds</li>
        
        <li>Receptivity to understanding of group dynamics and processes</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to work with people with ethnic minority and cultural diverse backgrounds</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
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            Qualifications
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Degree or equivalent level of training/education in Education (PGCE or equivalent), Social Work, Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, RMN, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, with significant years professional practice.</li>
          
          <li>Completed relevant training course in accredited psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, CAT, DBT or Art Psychotherapy) or relevant to discipline and practice.</li>
          
          <li>Registered with professional body or regulatory body as appropriate to psychological therapy discipline i.e.HCPC/UKCP/BACP/BABCP/NMC/BASW</li>
          
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            Experience
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience in delivering individual psychological interventions.</li>
          
          <li>Experience in delivering group psychological interventions.   Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of working with individuals with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties</li>
            
            <li>Recent experience in a mental health or equivalent setting</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Skills
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to reflect on clinical practice/intervention.   Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds.</li>
          
          <li>Understanding the needs and demands of working with clients with complex developmental and social backgrounds</li>
          
          <li>Receptivity to understanding of group dynamics and processes</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Ability to work with people with ethnic minority and cultural diverse backgrounds</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>
    <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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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <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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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Tamarind Centre</p>
      <p>Yardley Green Road</p>
      <p>Birmingham</p>
            <p>B95PU</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Tamarind Centre</p>
          <p>Yardley Green Road</p>
          <p>Birmingham</p>
                    <p>B95PU</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

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