Bridge - Case Manager - Drive Project

Bradford Council; Bradford; Presencial; GBP 30.000 - 40.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

32 days annual leave

5% employer pension contribution

Learning & Development programme

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Death-in-service benefit of three time

£500 refer-a-friend bonus

Wellbeing time and mindfulness

Blue Light Card discounts

Descripción de la vacante

The Bridge Project is recruiting a Case Manager for the Drive Project, a national model addressing high-harm domestic abuse. The role provides intensive case management and coordinates partners across police, safeguarding and housing to reduce risk and protect survivors.

A driver’s license with vehicle insurance and an enhanced DBS check are required. You will work in a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework, engaging with complex risk and ensuring safe, effective services within a national

Formación

• Strong assessment and engagement abilities are essential.
• Ability to communicate clearly with diverse partners.
• Experience working with complexity, risk and challenge.
• Balance boundaries with empathy and respect, in a trauma-informed framework.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver intensive case management for high-risk individuals.
• Coordinate multi-agency response to reduce risk and support accountability.
• Keep survivor safety at the centre of all activities.
• Deliver Drive model with fidelity, balancing challenge and support.
• Collaborate with police, safeguarding, housing and health services.
• Share information appropriately for collective decision-making.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team and reflectively within trauma-informed practice.
• Contribute to shaping a high-quality service within a national model.

Conocimientos

Assessment skills

Engagement skills

Communication skills

Risk handling

Boundaries & accountability

Trauma-informed approach

Descripción del empleo

Case Manager post on the Drive Project, a national model for high-harm domestic abuse delivered by The Bridge Project with the Drive Central Team and West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The role provides intensive individual case management for people posing the highest risk of serious harm in intimate or family relationships, alongside a coordinated multi-agency response. The team works to the Drive model's trauma-informed, strengths-based framework with police, probation, safeguarding and housing partners. A driving licence with a vehicle and comprehensive business insurance is essential, and an enhanced DBS check is required.

What the job involves

• Deliver intensive individual case management for people posing the highest risk of serious harm in intimate or family relationships
• Support accountability, behaviour change and sustained risk reduction through a coordinated multi-agency response
• Keep victim and survivor safety at the centre of all activity
• Deliver the Drive model with fidelity, balancing challenge and accountability with engagement and support
• Work closely with police, probation, children's and adult safeguarding, housing, health and specialist domestic abuse services
• Share information appropriately and contribute to collective decision-making
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Work reflectively within a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework
• Help shape and embed a high-quality service within the national model

Experience

• Relevant professional experience

Skills & knowledge

• Strong assessment skills
• Strong engagement skills
• Strong communication skills
• Working confidently with complexity, risk and challenge
• Balancing clear boundaries and accountability with empathy, curiosity and respect
• Working reflectively within a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework

Checks & eligibility

• Driving licence with access to a vehicle and fully comprehensive business insurance
• Willingness to undergo an enhanced DBS check

Other

• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults
• Values-driven commitment to reducing harm and improving safety
• Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams, sharing information appropriately

Nice to have

• Relevant language skills
• Cultural awareness, curiosity and competence
• Value for learning, supervision and reflective practice
• Interest in helping shape and embed a high-quality service within a national model

What’s offered

• 32 days annual leave
• 5% employer pension contribution
• Learning & Development programme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Death-in-service benefit of three times salary
• £500 refer-a-friend bonus
• Two hours monthly wellbeing time and mindfulness activities
• Blue Light Card discounts