Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Navigator

About the Role

The Bridge Project is a well-established Bradford based charity providing services to a broad range of people experiencing the effects of deprivation and health inequalities. Bridge’s work includes substance misuse, homelessness, mental and physical health support services and working with people with complex disadvantages.

We are looking to appoint a full-time experienced practitioner as a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Navigator on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a service which was originally a pilot project.  The role works with those identified as perpetrators of domestic abuse through the Integrated Offender Management Team, whose risks are standard to medium.  The primary role is to engage and provide early intervention and prevention to perpetrators, to identify any areas of unmet need and to navigate them into the services to meet these needs. The role involves proactively making face to face contact in the community and outreaching individuals at their home, friends or family members’ homes or any agreed place including at The Bridge Project Base.

You will be qualified to Health and Social Care Level 3 or equivalent or qualified through appropriate life or job experience, along with at least 2 years’ experience of delivering support services to people experiencing multiple needs/multiple disadvantages.  It is also essential that you have experience of working with and/or managing high risk cases therapeutically and conducting person centred and strength-based assessments of need and creating mutually agreed action plans.  This is a key role where you will need to demonstrate personal resilience, be tenacious and have the ability to deal with difficult situations in a calm, tactful, responsible and safe way.

Most of all, you will place individuals at the heart of your interactions, with the ability to build up a rapport and trust and be a skilled cooperative communicator with the adaptability and style to provide a flexible approach to develop and deliver services, which are responsive to the needs of clients.  Often situations can sometimes be difficult and challenging so you will need to be non-judgemental with a good understanding of the needs of chronically excluded and vulnerable people.  It is also important that you are confident, self-aware and have strong professional boundaries.

The successful candidate will be able to work 09:30 to 17:30 Mondays – Fridays, with an element of flexibility.  It is essential that you have a driving licence with access to a vehicle for the role.  A willingness to undergo an enhanced DBS check is also a requirement of the post.

If you are passionate about what we do and would thrive working as part of our team, we’d love to hear from you.

In return, as well as a rewarding career, we can offer a competitive salary, 4% pension contribution, generous annual leave entitlement, employee assistance scheme, life insurance, a monthly team wellbeing session and a programme of mindfulness activities for staff.  The Bridge Project is a Mindful Employer.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role, please contact Shelley Pawson, Service Manager to arrange this on shelley.pawson@thebridgeproject.org.uk

No CV’s are accepted.  No Employment Agencies please.

There is no closing date, applications will be reviewed on arrival, so please apply promptly as the opportunity will close on recruitment.