Thrive Tribe creates long-term habit and behaviour change through a range of lifestyle and wellbeing programmes.Join us on our journey to empower over a million people to change their behaviours and thrive!At Thrive Tribe we deliver award-winning healthy lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that make people happier and healthier! We’re looking for a Health Psychologist / Mental Health Lead to join our team – specifically supporting our Thriving Nottingham and One You East Sussex service, in addition to developing services across the whole company.Our programmes are designed to support individuals and families to improve their health behaviours and make sustainable changes to their lifestyle. Our programmes consist of several key services, including:· Stop smoking support· Health Coaching· Weight management support· Health Checks· Physical activityOur team of motivated practitioners work directly with individuals to support them to achieve their health goals. This is achieved through successfully delivering our quality pathways and products, including Gloji Lose Weight and Gloji Smokefree. As the Health Psychologist, your role will be to support and upskill our practitioners, enabling them to empower those living with mental health conditions to make long term changes to their lifestyle and improve health-related outcomes (including moving more, eating better and stopping smoking). Like all roles at Thrive Tribe, you can expect your time at work to be fun, varied and challenging. We don’t like to stick to a firm JD as we know from experience that things change throughout the lifetime of a role and it gives our people the chance to play to their strengths.
A typical day in this role might include:Working with colleagues across our Thrive Tribe services to provide specialist mental health and behaviour change expertise contributing to the design, development and continuous improvement of our services, products and resources.
Keeping abreast of the most recent evidence base and reviewing our products and services to ensure we’re providing our clients with cutting-edge health and wellbeing support.
Providing best practice guidance and clinically informed support to our practitioners whilst they are supporting clients living with mental health conditions, or where mental wellbeing needs are contributing to the client’s unhealthy habits.
Ensuring that support for mental wellbeing is embedded within the context of all behaviour change interventions, including developing tools and resources that Practitioners can make available to their clients.
Working in partnership with Thrive Tribe’s centralised Clinical and Quality Team to ensure effective safeguarding and escalation procedures are in place in relation to mental health.
Developing guidance and communication templates for communications with other healthcare professionals who are supporting the same client (eg GPs, mental health nurses), including recommendation of medication reviews (eg after a successful quit attempt).
Establish effective working relationships with external partners (such as mental health services, charities and crisis teams) to establish robust onward referral pathways and ensure safe coordinated care.
Provide support for Thrive Tribe staff which includes leading Emotional and Mental Wellbeing groups, practitioner peer reflection, staff training, and supervision frameworks.
Champion inclusive and culturally responsive approaches to emotional wellbeing, reducing barriers faced by marginalised or high-risk groups.
Review outcome data to understand the effectiveness of our programmes as well as leading on any research opportunities across Thrive Tribe.
Working with colleagues across all of our Thrive Tribe services to contribute to new projects and service developments – we’re always looking to share knowledge and resources!
Ensuring due consideration is given to our Safeguarding, Information Governance and Clinical Governance policies and procedures. To ensure safer recruitment and safeguarding for all we adopt pre-employment processes, including DBS checks.
Helping us maintain the ethos of Thrive Tribe by driving our organisational culture forward across our services and using every opportunity to embed our values! About you...This role requires applicants to be a qualified Health Psychologist, or working towards being qualified. More than anything though, we are looking for a team player who puts their heart into their work. We’ve got some core values that run through everything we do, and we’d love it if they resonate with you too! Be the changeYou like helping people. You’ll be working with those who need help the most, empowering them to make positive changes to thrive. Be effectiveYou’re patient and can adapt under pressure. Always happy to make time for other people. And have a great attitude. Be happy You recognise the power of a smile. You value a fun, supportive workplace and want to come to work raring to go (check out our rating on Glassdoor). Be successfulYou are motivated and driven. Happy working solo or as part of a team, you love meeting targets. And will be given opportunities to contribute and develop your career. Be big-hearted You want to make a difference. Working with a like-minded team of optimistic people, we want the same thing to do meaningful work and change lives. To work with us in this role you will need to have some delivery experience of supporting clients to make healthy lifestyle choices. However, we hire based on attitude over traditional skills and experience so if you feel you are right for the job we would love to hear from you! Due to the nature of this role, we are looking for someone who is seeking a varied and flexible working pattern. Perks...Every person makes Thrive Tribe the incredible place it is to work and play together, we’re unstoppable. Within our buzzing environment our talented people work hard but we ensure lots of fun is thrown in too! We offer you;Flexible working – we’re serious about life/work balance!Access to Mental Health First Aid training, and other training courses.Tailored health and wellbeing support such as access to life coaching.Regular team events and activities, including ThriveFest and our annual Challenge Weekend (for those who want to put their fitness to the test!)Rewards portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants, and days out. Enhanced parental leave. 23 days holiday, increasing every year up to a maximum of 29 days (plus Bank Holidays!)And last but not least, a day on us to live by our values!Contract: Part-time (3 days per week), Permanent role. Salary: up to £52,000 per annum pro rata (£31,200 per annum for the hours required). Closing Date: Friday March 6th 2026.Applicants will be contacted to outline the next stages of the process. Interviews are likely to take place on March 17th 2026, being held in Nottingham City.
Location: This role is a remote role (working from home) with monthly travel to Nottingham City Centre, East Sussex and London.Please note, the successful applicant will be required to have the right to work in the UK. Learn more about Thrive Tribe - https://www.thrivetribe.org.uk/ Got a question? We’d love to hear from you please email Heather Osborn heather.osborn@thrivetribe.org.uk. We believe that every person has the right to thrive at work, which is why we are committed to equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate. Should you require any specific accommodations in the recruitment process please let us know in your application .
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