Pastoral

Pastoral Care

The Profesional Support & Wellbeing Team aims to help promote trainee well-being and personal development by providing support and assistance in tackling obstacles or key transitions – professional or personal.

We understand how stressful and demanding working as a trainee doctor can be, as well as the effect events in our personal lives can have on us, which is why we feel offering a support service to Severn Postgraduate Medical Education trainees is crucial.

What we do

PSW offers a confidential, supportive 1-1 meeting with one of their experienced team to talk through your situation and come up with an action plan. 

They are completely separate to your educational training. 

They offer a range of support and work with you to develop a bespoke plan. For more information on how they can help you go to their website.

Non-urgent advice: heather.samuel@hee.nhs.ukCareers Advice

Within the Gloucestershire Postgraduate Department, Susannah Jenkin (Susannah.jenkin@glos.nhs.uk) is the Career Tutor.

The requirement of this role is to talk through any aspects of a trainees career by one-to-one sessions to discuss topics like specialty choice, career change, or how to achieve better work/life balance as well as running mock interview scenarios and delivery of career sessions to the Foundation Doctors and Core Trainees.