Clinical Team Leader

Clinical Team Leader (Clinical Psychologist)

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Salary £42,450 - £60,000 per annum depending on experience

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Brilliant outcomes through integrated health, housing and care. Thats when it hits home.

Be part of something brilliant at Home Group, where clinical interventions work hand in hand with daily care and support. Were delivering brilliant long term outcomes for vulnerable people through integrating health, housing and care.  

We have an amazing opportunity for you to join our homeless crisis services which are based across three main sites in Newcastle Upon Tyne, supporting up to 150 customers who have complex and interconnected needs including mental health conditions, personality disorders, emotional and behaviours of concern.   Youll really make your mark, clinically leading our services and working strategically to develop them to be psychologically and trauma informed, embedding a PIE model as well as creating and maintaining a healthy psychological environment. 

Youll provide clinical leadership to our multi-disciplinary team which includes Occupational Therapists, Mental Health Practice Leads and our operational Care and Support team.  Youll lead on specialist psychological assessments, formulation and psychologically informed treatment, providing clinical advice to your colleagues on the day to day support required including interventions.  Youll lead individual and group reflective practice sessions to support the advancement of colleagues knowledge and practice, enabling support to be delivered which ensures safety, promotes recovery, wellbeing and maximises independence.  Youll also support the embedding of our exciting new LIFE support practice model (Living Independently and Feeling Enabled) so that it is delivered in a safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led way. 

This is a really exciting time to join us in developing our services, creating new ways of integrating health and social care into housing, and helping to eradicate street homelessness in Newcastle, working with key stakeholders across the City.  

Youll report to Garry our Partnership Manager who is really passionate about housing, and loves sport, travel and the great outdoors.  Your clinical supervision will be provided by our Clinical Practice Team.  The team meet on a regular basis to shape and deliver our services and always make time for cuppa and natter.

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A bit about you

It goes without saying that youll be an experienced Clinical Psychologist, holding relevant professional qualifications; HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, BPS, Doctoral Degree or equivalent.  Youll be experienced in working with a wide variety of customers across the full range of clinical severity, including some experience of working with customers who have complex needs, adolescent and adult mental health issues.   Youll have a brilliant background in providing clinical supervision and unleashing the potential of colleagues through your clinical advice, support and training.  Youll have a genuine passion for working with people who have experienced homelessness and will bring evidenced based clinical approaches.

Ideally, youll have a current driving licence and access to a car or be willing to use public transport to travel and work from our citywide services.  Well pay your mileage.

An Enhanced Disclosure Check will be required for this role and the costs of this will be met by us.

A bit about us

Were one of the UKs biggest providers of high quality housing and care and support services.  We have a wealth of expertise in delivering a wide range of specialist and support services to people with complex health and social care needs.  Did we also mention, were number 10 in the UKs Best Super Large Places to Work, 17th in Stonewalls Top 100 employers and winners of the 2019 Skills for Care Accolades for Best Employer Support for Registered Managers?. 

How well support you

Its our unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your childs school play, your partners graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. You can elect to fit these around your working day or use your flexi to take the time off when you need it.

Through our brilliant learning pathways, well support you with your own continual professional development (will pay for your relevant professional membership fees too) as well maintaining your professional registration through regular clinical supervision and reflective practice.

The job for you?

Great, all you need to do now is upload your CV and covering letter.  Easy as that!

Were different at Home

We have a big role to play in tackling prejudice and discrimination.  We want you to be yourself here and value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your race, sexuality, disability, religion, gender or even non-gender, we recognise and celebrate your differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work.