Mental Health Practitioner

Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner – Remote Working Position Type: Permanent / Full-Time Function: Mental Health Reporting to: Reporting to the Quality and Practice Manager. Location: Hybrid. This role will support 4 services based in Yeovil, Exeter & Southampton. The Lifeway’s Group is the UKs largest provider of specialist support services for people with complex needs. We are striving to be revolutionary in our sector and currently on a transformational journey to become the Care Provider of Choice by 2026 – through new process, digital solutions / tools, and more efficient ways of working, helping our people deliver the best care to the people we support. With over 11,000 colleagues supporting approx. 6000 people across the UK we are on a mission to improve the lives of the people we support. We are exceptional people delivering exceptional care and support, and we are looking for a Mental Health Practitioner (Quality and Practice) to join our team in the South of England. As a member of the Quality and Practice Team, utilising your mental health knowledge and practice experience you will provide quality support to our service by building the capacity and resilience of our teams and ensuring and enabling the highest quality of support delivery across assessment, risk management, recovery interventions and support approaches. The Quality and practice team ensure that our mental health services are well informed and equipped in supporting people with mental health and associated needs. Working collaboratively with scheme managers within the supported housing schemes to influence a culture of positive risk taking and development of good practice. This is a fantastic role for a Registered MH Professionals with strong Community Mental Health experience who wants to join a progressive company, with a passion for innovation, quality and pace. What we can offer you You will work as part of a national leadership team who embrace new ideas, support each other and put people first. You will support Scheme Manager who welcome your input and advice as a MH Practitioner to ensure we are delivering exceptional care. You will be supported to achieve and develop professionally – with the opportunity to specialise in an area of Mental Health. Competitive Salary of £36k – £40k (dep on experience) You have the benefit of being based from home which supports your work/life balance. You will receive core benefits including matched pension scheme, 33 days annual leave (inc bank holidays), car mileage and access to other benefits, rewards and recognition such as discounts, cycle to work, well-being and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). You have the chance to be part of a company that will be revolutionary and be the Employer of Choice and Care Provider of Choice by 2026. Key Responsibilities Working in partnership with scheme managers within the supported housing schemes to influence a culture of positive risk taking and development of good practice. Supporting practice that allows teams to work through complexities associated with the duty of care, safeguarding, autonomy, and capacity. Utilising clinical and practice-based knowledge to contribute to the high standards of practice development, coaching, governance, risk management and safeguarding. Developing and maintaining good partnership working with other services including primary health care teams and voluntary sectors. Supporting colleagues in reducing the risks of secondary trauma, particularly in the context of working with people who harm themselves. Responsibility for building the capacity and resilience of colleagues through facilitation of Reflective Practice, Education, post incident de-brief and training. Actively participate in the development and delivery of education and training programmes to overcome identified trends in practice and lessons learned including those arising from incident and complaint investigations. To assist with empowering and enabling the staff/teams to ensure that support is delivered to the highest standards, utilising research and evidence-based practice, in line with Lifeways policies and procedures. Co-facilitation and contribution to delivery of the Mental Health Recovery Training. Delivering positive and proactive support approaches where people use substances and have mental health problems and ensuring proactive multi-agency awareness and involvement. Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications Formal health and social care qualification that permits registration with a UK professional body, e.g. Registered Social Worker, Registered Occupational Therapist, Registered Mental Health Nurse. Significant experience in front line mental health services. This will ideally be from community mental health services. Knowledge of, and ability to promote, a recovery-orientated approach. High degree of knowledge of mental health ; contributors to poor mental health; impact of co-occurring conditions including physical health; mental health conditions; assessment of mental health; support and treatment approaches; risk assessment and management. Experience and ability to develop thorough support plans that ensure person centred, recovery-oriented practice , with appropriate positive risk strategies. Experience of and ability to articulate and deliver practice that recognises potential challenges between duty of care, safeguarding, autonomy, and capacity. Ability to coach, train and mentor others. Ability to develop positive relationships with external and partner organisations in working to provide a cohesive service. Ability to manage own workload and time, while working across several services with competing demands. A standard of IT skills appropriate to an experienced and independently functioning practitioner, e.g. ability to create good-quality assessment reports . This will include ability to confidently use Word, Excel, PowerPoint and internal and external web-based systems. You could be just the person we are looking for! APPLY TODAY! This role is subject to an enhanced DBS. The Lifeways Group is an equal opportunities employer and is regulated by CQC in England, CIW in Wales and CI in Scotland. #J-18808-Ljbffr