Family Navigator

**Salary**

£29,760 per annum

**Basis**

Various

**Date posted**

17/09/2025

**Job reference**

REQ003383

**Job title and organisation**: Family Navigator - The Bridge Project
**Salary**: £29,760 per annum
**Hours**: 28-33.5 hrs per week
**Contract**: Permanent
**Location**: Owlet Family Centre, Barncroft, Shipley BD18 2JG including travel in Bradford MBC in the delivery of direct family navigation support services including clients’ homes.
**Closing Date**: Wednesday 15 October

We’re pleased to announce an excellent opportunity for a full-time **Family Navigator** based at Shipley Owlet Family Hub. The Bridge Project has been providing support since 1983. We work with individuals, families and communities to improve people’s lives in a sustainable way, recognising that solutions are often complex. Today we have a strong staff team of 110 dedicated individuals. If you would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you.

We deliver our successful Navigation Model with a small cohort of referred families to the team, whilst working closely with colleagues within the Children and Families Trust.

The team work with families who are primarily impacted by substance use and who are experiencing simultaneous additional issues linked to unmet needs and deprivation across a range of domains. This may include poor physical health/mental health, family court involvement, domestic abuse, chronic housing issues, exploitation, financial issues, and criminal justice involvement.

The Bridge Navigation Model champions a high level of multi-disciplinary interagency cooperation and joint working relationships with families. We deliver an evidence-based, staged delivery model using trauma-informed approaches that offer intensive in-reach within the home. Navigators are skilled at rapidly building trusted relationships and providing practical support for individuals/families. Navigators set up, coordinate and ensure delivery of individualised support packages that access services/interventions families need to build strength, resilience, overcome challenges, gain confidence, and acquire the personal and social assets to meet their aspirations that positively impact their lives. There is a clear aim to support individuals to move to full independence of the service.

We are looking for someone who is qualified to Social Care Level 3 or equivalent or qualified through appropriate life or job experience, along with at least 2 years’ experience successfully delivering support services to people experiencing multiple need/multiple disadvantage. You will be highly organised with excellent communication skills and able to manage your time effectively, working as part of a supportive team to ensure a high-quality service is maintained. It is essential that you have experience of working with/or managing high risk cases therapeutically and conducting person centred and strength-based assessment of need/creating mutually agreed actions plans and risk management plans.

Most of all, you will place individuals at the heart of your interactions, with the ability to build up a rapport and trust, with personal skills around warmth, compassion, empathy and resilience, with a desire to help people and maintain a supportive relationship. Often situations can sometimes be difficult and challenging so you will need to be non-judgemental and tenacious in order to deal with situations calmly, tactfully, responsibly and safely.

In return, as well as a rewarding career, we can offer a competitive salary, 4% pension contribution, 32 days annual leave entitlement, an L&D programme, 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.

No CVs are accepted. No Employment Agencies please.

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