2gether NHS Foundation Trust is holding a careers fair at the Europa Hotel in Belfast on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th March 2019.

2gether provides specialist mental health and learning disability services to the people of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire and we have a wide range of roles currently available.

Whether you are newly qualified or currently working in community health or inpatient settings, we’d love to meet you.

We can offer:

• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Excellent pension scheme
• Incremental pay
• Relocation packages
• Flexible working opportunities and family friendly policies
• The chance to experience a range of working environments, teams and services
• Dedicated occupational health and wellbeing service
• Career progression opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Business mileage payments for work-related travel
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Access to local and national staff discounts

Our clinicians and HR advisors will be available to answer any questions and you can also apply and have an interview on the day.

It is an exciting time to work for 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust. We’re working together to bring mental health, learning disability and physical community health services together. From October 2019, we hope to be a joint Trust.

Find out more and book your place here. 

Today (Thursday 21 February), we celebrate all things mental health nursing!

Read Katherine’s blog post about her first year of her mental health nursing degree.

Read Steve’s blog post. He’s been a mental health nurse at 2gether for 11 years.

Penny is studying mental health nursing. Read her blog here.

Find out more about our careers event – taking place TODAY!

Find out more about the path to mental health nursing on the Health Careers Website.

Take a look at all our current vacancies here.

Our dynamic and motivated eating disorders service based in Cheltenham are looking for full time band 5 and 6 clinicians to join their community team.

The service provides specialist assessment, treatment and support for individuals who are experiencing an eating disorder and their families within Gloucestershire.

The role includes carrying out initial assessments and the delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Enhanced (CBT-E) sessions. It will also include the treatment of young people and their families, using Family Based Treatment (FBT) as well as managing those identified as at risk.

The successful candidates will have excellent communication skills, be enthusiastic in their approach and demonstrate an understanding of the complexities involved in this specialist area of mental health.

For an informal chat, please contact Anne-Marie Willis on 01242 634263.

Band 5 role

Band 6 role

Gloucestershire is excited to have secured £5m national funding to improve specialist mental health support in schools and waiting times for other mental health services and we are looking to recruit a number of Education Mental Health Practitioners.

The funding is being used to set up four Mental Health Support Teams in a number of schools across the county, including primary, secondary, special schools and other settings.

The teams will be staffed by a combination of experienced, qualified counsellors working alongside NHS staff; the balance of skills, experience and training within the teams will be flexible in order to meet the specific needs of the children in each type of school.

Education Mental Health Practitioners will play a key role in these teams, and will focus on improving the resilience of students in schools, providing early support to prevent issues from escalating. They will also identify children and young people who need more specialist help and ensure they receive the support they need.

Post holders will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust for the first year whilst undergoing training, and, once qualified, by 2gether NHS Foundation Trust.

For full details and information about how to apply, visit NHS jobs.

2gether NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust are delighted to announce the appointment of a Joint Chief Executive for both organisations.

Paul Roberts has been selected in the role of Joint Chief Executive following a thorough national selection process, which included discussions with service users, partners and representatives from both Trusts, in addition to a formal interview.

He will take up his position on Monday 16 April and lead the work to formally unite the two Trusts, in line with plans announced last September.

Paul said: “I am delighted to have been appointed to this exciting new role. Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust and 2gether NHS Foundation Trust are both already very strong, high quality organisations.

“I look forward to building on these strengths over the coming months and years as the two organisations work even more closely together.

“I have no doubt that this closer integration will benefit service users, carers and the local community more generally and I am looking forward to playing my part in leading this development.”

Paul has been a Chief Executive for over twenty years and spent more than five years in Wales leading a large Health Board responsible for community, mental health and learning disability services as well as for four acute hospitals. Prior to that he spent fourteen years in Plymouth as Chief Executive of the community and mental health services, and then the acute teaching hospital NHS Trust.

An Oxford University graduate, he has also held a variety of national roles across the NHS, including being a trustee of the NHS Confederation, vice-chair of the Association of UK University Hospitals and a member of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.

Ingrid Barker, who took up her position as chair of both Trusts on January 1, said: “Everyone understands that this is a critical appointment, and there was complete agreement that Paul stood out from an extremely strong field of candidates.

“His leadership, experience, compassion and dedication to our Trusts’ strategic vision will be invaluable as we lay down a blueprint for mental health, learning disability and physical health services which offer better co-ordinated, and more effective, care.”

Arrangements are being planned with Katie Norton, CEO at Gloucestershire Care Services, and Colin Merker, acting CEO at 2gether to ensure a seamless transition over the next five weeks.

Our commitment to working in partnership with carers has been recognised with a second gold star under a national scheme.

The Triangle of Care scheme is run by the Carers Trust, and brings carers, service users and professionals closer together to jointly promote the recovery of people with mental health conditions.

We were accepted as a member of the scheme in April 2015, gained our first gold star in 2016, and have now been awarded our second gold star. This is the highest level that a Trust such as ²gether, which currently has no community health services, can attain.

Professor Jane Melton, Director of Engagement and Integration for the Trust, said: “The Triangle of Care programme has given us a great opportunity to embed the principles of working with family members and other carers across our teams in both Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

“We are delighted that this work has been recognised with a second gold star – the highest rating a Trust like ours can achieve. However, membership of the scheme is about much more than accreditation.

“We hope that it demonstrates to people who use our services, families and communities, that we hold carers, and the role that they play, in the highest regard and are committed to ensuring their involvment. Carers not only need our full support; they are also experts in their own right who should be fully included in the delivery of health and social care whenever possible .

“We’d like to thank our partners – Carers Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Young Carers and Herefordshire Carers Support – as well as the Carers Trust for their continued support. In addition, we express our sincere appreciation to the carers and staff members who have enabled this work to progress”

To gain the second star, community teams in both counties had to complete a number of actions, as well as appointing carer champions within their teams and nominating young carer champions.

Joanna Denney, Consultant Occupational Therapist for Social Inclusion,  ²gether NHS Foundation Trust, has led the work to gain the second gold star. She said: “Carers of all ages play an essential role in supporting the recovery and wellbeing of so many service users.

“They can offer emotional support, speak up for loved ones, get involved in care planning, remind someone to take their medication, and help them with day-to-day activities. This makes a big difference to people who use our service users, and improves their chances of living the life they want to live.

“As this formal programme comes to an end, we will remain strongly committed to the principles of Triangle of Care and make sure they are followed routinely throughout the Trust.”

If you have become a parent in the past five years and have experienced mental health difficulties during this time, why not come along to a ‘Whose Shoes?’ event and share your views?

We’d love to hear your experiences of any help received with mental health issues either during or after pregnancy; good, bad or indifferent.

Date: Thurs 24 May 2018
Arrive from: 09:30am for coffee
Event from: 10:00 until 2:15 pm
Venue: Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester, GL1 3AX

Lunch is provided, partners/fathers welcome and of course babies are more than welcome to attend!

Spaces are limited so please let us know that you are interested by contacting us on 01452 894092.