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! We can't offer a CoS for this role.

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

• Working across the region including Newcastle, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• You will be required to facilitate Reflective Practice
• You'll need your own car for business use, we pay your mileage
• We'll support with your continual professional development and your professional registration
• You'll need a valid Enhanced DBS check. (We pay)

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

Finally
For reasonable adjustments email [email protected]. Roles can close early, so don't delay applying. If you can't see the Job Description at the top of this page, click APPLY to view it on our pages and find out more about us.

Salary: Salary circa £40,000 per annum plus great benefits including health cash plan
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Vacancy Type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Blyth, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne
Closing date: 01 Dec 2026

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