The Bradford RESET service, which stands for Recognising, Engaging and Supporting Everyone to Transform, launched on April 1st, 2025. 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 for those with additional complex needs within our community. Bradford RESET is led by Bridge in partnership with Create Strength Group.
Bradford RESET uniquely combines two 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 also recognise the importance of holistic family wellness and safety, offering therapeutic support for entire families affected by the behaviours of individuals involved in the program.
The Case Worker will be part of a wider team and is dedicated to the new programme element of the Bradford RESET service.
We are looking for a positive, enthusiastic person who is fully committed to working within a new and dynamic delivery model. We seek an individual who prioritises collaboration and inclusivity, vs people who view themselves as having greater authority/ power over our clients.
You will be engaging with people aged 16+ of any gender referred or self-referring to the service who are harming or have harmed in their family and/or intimate relationships. This includes those with varying motivations to change, outstanding charges, ongoing criminal investigations, family court proceeding or re-offending during their involvement with the service. The Case Worker will be working within our trauma-informed model that addresses the root causes of domestic abuse, proactively engaging with resistance and compliance challenges through therapeutic individual and group work programmes. Each component not only focuses on behaviour change but also addresses broader health and wellbeing determinants. This service is committed to inclusive practices, believing that people’s wellbeing and safety are significantly improved when they are actively engaged in our programmes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Promptly responding to all referrals, proactively making positive, engaging contact through initial phone calls and arranging flexible face to face contact that may include in person meetings, on-line or off-site meetings at a partnership organisation location based on service user preferences.
- Build a trusted, person-centred, trauma informed and highly supportive relationship, individualising support for change through undertaking a mutually agreed personalised assessment of strengths, risks and support needs and levels of wider social and community engagement.
- Co-design a SMART plan of care with linking risk assessment, addressing mutually agreed support needs linked to domestic abuse offending and levels of wider social and community engagement and psychological needs.
- Deliver one to one sessions and group work, therapeutically structured sessions that include service tool kit materials delivered through a range of therapeutic techniques such as motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy and person-centred therapy.
-Working holistically, identifying underlying causes of harmful behaviour along with delivering effective behaviour change techniques.
-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 high challenge techniques to affect recognition of DA behaviours and support change.
- Maintain whole family risk oversight, ensuring full adherence to service risk and safeguarding protocols within the service that include internal and external escalation processes and communication.
- Proactively link and practically support individuals into any agreed appropriate agencies, services and community assets relevant to their expressed wider 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.
- Produce high quality, accurate written reports for statutory and non-statutory bodies as and when required, and in accordance with the programme protocols. This routinely includes reports for multi-agency bodies outlining individual support needs, engagement and progress in the service as part of the overall package of care.
- Liaise on a regular basis with all linking services engaged with the individual/ whole family to ensure collaborative safe inter-agency working practices and to discuss and review mutually held cases.
- Maintain appropriate service documentation including case notes, and administrative systems linked to the programme.
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with a full range of partner organisations, services and community programmes, colleagues and assets.
- Attend service supervision and 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 the services 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.
Further Information
If you require further information about the role or wish to have an informal conversation regarding any
aspect of the application process, please contact us on tel: 07759 053653 [email protected]
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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £30,760.00 per year
Benefits:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Bradford BD1 4QH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Please note applications are only accepted via the website. Have you applied through https://createstrengthgroup.org/jobs/
Experience:
- case worker: 2 years (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
