Freedom of Information request Agency Spend & Service Leads for Mental Health Roles

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 404-2025

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.

You asked:

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information regarding agency spend and hiring responsibility within your organisation:

1. The total agency spend for the financial year 2023-2024 broken by Agencies on the following roles:

• • Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)
  • Social Worker
  • CAMHS Practitioner
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT)
  • Mental Health Practitioner
  • Psychologist
  • Psychotherapist

2. The total agency spend from April 2024 to the present date broken by Agencies on the same roles listed above.

If possible, please provide a breakdown of spend per role. If this information is held in a different format or is only available in part, please provide any relevant data that you do hold.

Our response:

We do not record or report on information in a way that would enable us to provide a response to this question, as we cannot analyse expenditure by staff group type, but the vast majority of this spend was with ID Medical Limited.

You asked:

3. The name and job title of the appointed Service Lead or responsible hiring manager for each of the above staff groups. If direct names cannot be disclosed, please provide the relevant job titles and departments responsible for recruitment in these areas.

Our response:

The Temporary Staffing Team Manager is responsible to recruit bank workers for the staff groups mentioned on the request.

Next steps:

Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:

Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk

If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.