Bradford RESET MARAC Navigator

About the Role

About the role and service

Bradford RESET service, which stands for Recognising, Engaging and Supporting Everyone to Transform. This innovative service brings a trauma-informed approach to support individuals who have caused or who are causing harm in their intimate and/ or family relationships and their families and for victims with additional complex needs referred through the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)

Bradford RESET uniquely combines our Navigator existing services focused on domestic abuse, delivered by Bridge, with an extensive new programme offer for individuals aged 16 and over who cause harm. This integration creates a vibrant opportunity for Bradford to tackle the underlying causes of domestic abuse by providing effective, therapeutic, and proactive support. We recognise the importance of holistic family wellness and safety, offering therapeutic support for entire families affected by the behaviours of individuals involved in the programme.

This post is for a MARAC Navigator and focusses on a selected group of victim cases that return to the MARAC due to repeated high-risk domestic abuse incidents where engagement with either the victim or perpetrator in the co-ordinated action plan has been unsuccessful.   The MARAC Navigators will receive all referrals from the MARAC meetings, working with a small caseload of typically 10 cases each.  MARAC Navigator will aim to:

• Provide aspirational person-centred support through building a trusting relationship with the victim
• Pathway any cohobating people who harm to a navigator within the people who harm element of the Bradford RESET service to enable them to address issues that contribute to incidents of abuse
• Proactivity and intensively conduct face to face work with the victim to build all the networks of support that wrap around the individual to facilitate recovery, building and sustaining hope
• Work as part of a wider team to build and evidence what future support should look like.

A Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) is a weekly meeting where information is shared on the highest risk domestic abuse cases between representatives of local police, health, child protection, housing practitioners, Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs), probation and other specialists from the statutory and voluntary sectors. At the heart of a MARAC is the working assumption that no single agency or individual can see the complete picture of the life of a victim or perpetrator and any children, but all may have insights that are crucial to their safety. After sharing all relevant information, they have about a victim, any children and the perpetrator, the representatives discuss options for increasing safety and turn these into a co-ordinated action plan.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Assertively make face to face contact and proactively engage with referred individuals through all routes such as, meeting at an individual home, Bridge Project, friends or family members home or any agreed place.
• Provide creative person-centred trauma informed solutions to the unmet needs of individuals who are hard to reach and engage.
• Build a trusted, motivational and highly supportive relationship, individualising support through undertaking a mutually agreed personalised review of their strengths and support needs and levels of wider social and community engagement.
• Mutually identify and work together to overcome barriers and access a wide range of health and wellbeing services, providing appropriate advocacy. Working in a trauma informed way, use high support techniques to affect recognition of DA and individuals to achieve their goals
• Proactively link and practically support individuals into the agreed appropriate agencies, services and community assets relevant to their expressed needs and the level of risk e.g. physical and mental health, sexual health, housing, drug and alcohol services, benefit claims, criminal justice services, employment, training and education programmes and any specialist support services as required etc. this will include transporting people to their appointments.
• Liaise on a regular basis with the Police DA&SV team to discuss and review cases.
• Maintain appropriate case notes and administrative systems linked to the programme, including maintaining programme data performance/ evaluation systems.
• Produce high quality, accurate written reports and letters of support as and when required, this routinely includes reports for multi-agency bodies and letters outlining individual support needs as part of the overall package of care.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with a full range of partner organisations, services and community programmes, colleagues and assets.
• Attend project governance case review meetings, applying risk analysis skills and contributing to the exchange of relevant risk information, problem solve to make positive appropriate case direction decisions.
• Provide a pro-active response to any repeated incidence of domestic abuse working directly within the local multi-agency framework including MARAC and local partnership responses to domestic abuse.
• Apply reflective practice skills to evaluate work carried out.
• Contribute to training needs of other workers in this field.
• Participate in personal and professional development, updating knowledge as appropriate.
• Fully participate in all of Bridge’s supervision and support structures.
• To recognise one’s own personal and professional limitations and boundaries and discuss these at supervision and related support meetings.
• To undertake any additional duties, as directed by management which are commensurate with this post.

You must complete the Bridge Project’s application form in order to be considered for the role.  The application form plays a key part in our recruitment and selection process.  We use the information you provide about your skills, experience, career and education history to decide whether or not to invite you for an interview.  It is important that you complete the application form as fully and accurately as possible, ensuring that you give specific examples which demonstrate how you meet the criteria.

No CVs are accepted.  No Employment Agencies please.

The closing date is 10pm on Monday 5 January 2026

Shortlisting will take place on Tuesday 6 January 2026

Interviews will be held on Monday 19 January 2026