Mental Health Practice Lead in Southampton

Southampton

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

Be part of something brilliant at Home Group and join us as our Mental Health Practice Lead. Here at 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 maximise customers' independence and improve 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! 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, embedding 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.
• We’ll support your continual professional development as well as 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 transferable one.
• 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.