Mental Health Practitioner x2 - 7637

Title: Mental Health Practitioner x2

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time – 35 hours

Salary: £40,649 per annum to £44,825 per annum (London weighted salary) or £36,073 per annum to £40,014 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience. Plus ECU* (if policy requirement are met).

Grade: 8

Reporting Office: 1 x London, Stratford/Manchester, Trafford or Morden Road, CR4 4DA (office due to open later this year) and 1x London, Stratford or Morden Road, CR4 4DA (office due to open later this year)

Working Location: 1 x Trafford and London Locality. 1 x London Locality – please note travel to the locations is a requirement of this role.

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Working Pattern: 9-5 Monday to Friday

Closing Date: 25th March 2026 – 23:00

Interview Dates: c. 1st April 2026

Please click here for the role profile - Mental Health Practitioner NV.docx

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Join our Specialist Advisor Team at L&Q:

• The role offers the chance to work creatively across housing, health, safeguarding, and community services — driving joined‑up solutions for some of our most complex residents
• This role will involve working closely with L&Q’s housing management teams and our established team of specialist advisors, including our Mental Health Lead, Mental Health Practitioners, Safeguarding and vulnerability Specialists and Domestic abuse specialists. You will work in partnership with our housing management teams to ensure confidence and best practice working with residents who experience mental health conditions to achieve positive outcomes and sustain their tenancies. This will involve navigating to the right service at the right time and working with the wider multiagency team to ensure the best support is in place for our resident.
• These roles provide the specialist mental health expertise needed to manage complex cases, reduce risk, and support safe, sustainable tenancies.
• The roles report to our Mental Health Lead sat within our Housing Specialisms team

If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role:

• To work collaboratively with your fellow Mental Health Practitioners, Domestic abuse specialists and Vulnerability and Safeguarding specialists to be the lead professionals for your subject areas in the Housing Management service.
• Developing & implementing initiatives and resources to improve outcomes for residents
• Supporting and mentoring teams to better understand mental health service provision and how to navigate to the right service at the right time. Incorporate this awareness into working practices and consequently provide positive outcomes for residents.

What you'll bring:

• You will have a relevant professional qualification (including and not limited to Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing, PWP ) (Essential) and a min of 2 years’ experience in Mental Health practice.
• You will have excellent knowledge of mental health, social care and 3rd sector support services and proven experience of navigating these services to ensure clients are able to access the right service at the right time.
• You will have demonstratable experience of where you have worked collaboratively with services to ensure positive outcomes for clients.
• You will have excellent practical knowledge of legislation, regulation, and best practice in the fields of mental health and safeguarding. You will have great case management skills when working with complex cases to make assessments, formulate solutions and manage risks.
• You will have the ability to make independent decisions and recognise circumstances where risks or decisions need to be escalated (Essential) and the ability to formulate a range of options for new or unfamiliar situations, and to select the appropriate course of action to produce a logical and practical solution (Essential)
• You will be an effective communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be able to simplify, and problem solve in a co-productive way supporting others to raise skills and confidence.

DBS

For this post the successful candidate will need to apply for or be in possession of an Basic Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) to enable them to work within the team. For further information about the Disclosure Barring Service please visit www.homeoffice.gov.uk

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values located in the role profile, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome - Find out more here.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!

*ECU Allowance is paid in accordance with requirements of the relevant policy as updated from time to time.

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