Mental Health Practice Lead

Mental Health Practice Lead

Southampton

Permanent, part time (18.75 hpw)

Salary £43,500 per annum pro rata plus great benefits including health cash plan and brilliant work life balance

We can't offer a CoS for this role.

Home, a place where you belong

Be part of something brilliant at Home Group and join us as our Mental Health Practice Lead. Here a Home Group clinical interventions work hand in hand with day-to-day support. We’re trailblazing the way in delivering brilliant long-term outcomes for vulnerable people through integrating health, housing and care.  

Supporting our staff team who work with our customers, you’ll enable us to maintain high standards of support and intervention to contribute to achieving brilliant outcomes for our customers. Our service provides supported accommodation to vulnerable and complex customers who are referred to us via our local authorities’ homeless team. We aim to support our customers to meet their aspirations and to work towards living independently and feeling enabled.

What you'll do

• Shaping our service, developing essential standards and quality outcomes. 
• As an experienced clinician, you’ll support and develop our team to maximising customers independence and improving outcomes.
• A Registered Mental Health Nurse, you’ll lead on practice development to support our staff team who in turn directly support our customers.
• You’ll enhance colleagues’ knowledge and skills, promoting regular, honest and supportive feedback. 
• Point of contact for individual support and coaching of the managers in our service
• There’s no red tape or mounds of paperwork here!

Why join us?

You’ll go home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better, here, working for one of the Top Great Places to Work in the UK! 

You have

• A Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, registered with your relevant professional body
• The ability to develop and deliver specialist training packages to your colleagues, embed core competencies
• Clinical supervision to the team and facilitate Reflective Practice sessions. 

• Able to inspire others and advocate a philosophy of care that is person centred, maintains dignity, independence and ensures it is right for that person at that time. 

   

The practical bits

• We’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you.

   

• Able to use technology for communication and collaboration for example emails and meetings, document creation for care notes, case management systems to input risk, quality assurance tools and data reporting to name a few.
• We’ll support with your continual professional development as well maintaining your professional registration through regular clinical supervision and reflective practice. 
• You’ll need a valid Enhanced DBS check to do this job. We pay for that, if you don’t have a transferrable one.

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work! 

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a “me day”). The option to buy 5 more each year 

• 2 paid volunteering days each year 

• Health cash plan saving you (and your children) £1140+ each year covering dental, opticians, prescriptions and more 

• Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary) 

• Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal, fertility and menopause support 

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Mental Health Practice Lead Job description, find out about us and for help to apply. Roles can close early, so don’t wait. For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk.