Home Group Limited

Mental Health Practice Lead

The closing date is 31 July 2025

Job summary

Mental Health Practice Lead

National (home based with travel)

Permanent, Full time (37.5 hpw), flexible hours

Salary Circa £40,000per annum, plus great benefits including health cash plan and brilliant work life balance

Main duties of the job

What youll do

  • Support and develop teams to boost customer independence and improve outcomes.
  • Help identify and manage risk to deliver the best results for customers.
  • Drive practice development by promoting open, reflective practice, group supervision, and build colleague confidence in supporting customers, coaching and guiding colleagues and managers.
  • Enhance colleague engagement with external professionals for a multi-professional approach.
  • Contribute and engage in service improvements and audits as required.
  • Theres no red tape or mounds of paperwork here!

About us

Our team

Youll join Jacqui our Operations Manager in the Midlands, who has managed supported services for over 17 years! Youll also join our Clinical Team Leader Alex along with the rest of the team.

As well as being part of the Clinical Hub you will be part of a well-established MHPL workforce who are very supportive of each other. Were a national team, and even though we are spread out a bit, were a communicative bunch and will help you settle right in.

Details

Date posted

21 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£40,000 to £40,001 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

B0120-251127

Job locations

Home Group Ltd

1 Strawberry Lane

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 4BX


Job description

Job responsibilities

At Home Group, clinical intervention and day-to-day support go hand in hand. Were breaking new ground in integrating health, housing, and care to help vulnerable people thrive.

As our Mental Health Practice Lead in our virtual national clinical hub, youll support colleagues across our national supported and general needs housing services to deliver life-changing outcomes for customers.

Youll use your expertise to guide, advise and inspire our teams nationwide - raising standards, embedding Psychologically Informed Environments, and helping customers live independently and reach their goals.

Job description

Job responsibilities

At Home Group, clinical intervention and day-to-day support go hand in hand. Were breaking new ground in integrating health, housing, and care to help vulnerable people thrive.

As our Mental Health Practice Lead in our virtual national clinical hub, youll support colleagues across our national supported and general needs housing services to deliver life-changing outcomes for customers.

Youll use your expertise to guide, advise and inspire our teams nationwide - raising standards, embedding Psychologically Informed Environments, and helping customers live independently and reach their goals.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Youre a Clinician registered with your relevant professional body youre either a qualified Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Desirable

  • Youll have experience working with customers/patients with challenging mental health issues, and ideally have some experience of supporting colleagues or teams to understand mental health.
  • The ability to develop and deliver specialist training packages to your colleagues, embedding core competencies.
  • Facilitate and lead reflective practice and risk formulation meetings as required within service.

Experience

Desirable

  • An ability to work as part of a remote, national team with experience running virtual meetings and workshops.
  • Able to inspire others and advocate a philosophy of support that is person centred, maintains dignity, independence, and ensures it is right for that person at that time.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Youre a Clinician registered with your relevant professional body youre either a qualified Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

Desirable

  • Youll have experience working with customers/patients with challenging mental health issues, and ideally have some experience of supporting colleagues or teams to understand mental health.
  • The ability to develop and deliver specialist training packages to your colleagues, embedding core competencies.
  • Facilitate and lead reflective practice and risk formulation meetings as required within service.

Experience

Desirable

  • An ability to work as part of a remote, national team with experience running virtual meetings and workshops.
  • Able to inspire others and advocate a philosophy of support that is person centred, maintains dignity, independence, and ensures it is right for that person at that time.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Home Group Limited

Address

Home Group Ltd

1 Strawberry Lane

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 4BX


Employer's website

https://www.homegroup.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Home Group Limited

Address

Home Group Ltd

1 Strawberry Lane

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 4BX


Employer's website

https://www.homegroup.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Operations Manager

Jacqui Cartwright

jacqui.cartwright@homegroup.org.uk

07545733197

Details

Date posted

21 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£40,000 to £40,001 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

B0120-251127

Job locations

Home Group Ltd

1 Strawberry Lane

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 4BX


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