Are you a Registered Mental Health Professional with strong community experience, ready to influence practice at a regional level?
Do you want to use your expertise to shape quality, strengthen teams and improve lives — not just manage a caseload?
At Lifeways Group, the UK’s largest provider of specialist support services for people with complex needs, we are on a bold transformational journey to become the Care Provider of Choice — through smarter processes, digital innovation and more effective ways of working.
With over 10,000 colleagues supporting around 5,000 people across the UK, we are exceptional people delivering exceptional care. Now, we’re looking for a Mental Health Practitioner (Quality & Practice) to join our North West region and help us raise the bar even higher.
About the role -
This is a hybrid role, supporting three services across Blackpool and Morecambe. You’ll be part of our Quality & Practice Team, working collaboratively with Scheme Managers and frontline teams to build confidence, resilience and excellence in mental health support delivery.
Rather than holding a caseload, you’ll:
Strengthen practice across assessment, risk management and recovery-focused interventions
Promote a culture of positive risk-taking and evidence-based practice
Facilitate reflective practice, post-incident debriefs and learning
Support teams in navigating safeguarding, autonomy, duty of care and capacity
Deliver and co-facilitate Mental Health Recovery training
Build strong partnerships with primary care and voluntary sector services
Help teams manage the emotional impact of working in complex environments
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys influencing, coaching and developing others — and wants to see their impact across multiple services.
You will be:
A Registered Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Nurse (or equivalent UK registered professional)
Experienced in frontline Community Mental Health services
Confident in recovery-oriented, person-centred practice
Skilled in risk assessment and positive risk management
Comfortable coaching, mentoring and delivering training
Organised and able to manage priorities across multiple services
Confident producing high-quality written assessments and reports
If you are passionate about improving standards and embedding best practice — we want to hear from you.
You’ll be part of a national leadership team that embraces innovation, collaboration and putting people first.
We offer:
Competitive salary of £36,000–£40,000
Hybrid working to support work-life balance
33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
Matched pension scheme
Mileage allowance
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Discounts, cycle to work scheme and wellbeing benefits
Real opportunities to specialise and grow professionally
Most importantly, you’ll join an organisation striving to be revolutionary in our sector — transforming how care is delivered and supporting our people to do their best work every day.
This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Lifeways is an equal opportunities employer and regulated by CQC (England), CIW (Wales) and CI (Scotland).
If you’re ready to influence practice, empower teams and be part of a company on a mission — apply today.