About this role
Job summary
We are looking for 2 full time (37.5 hours) and 2 part time (18.75 hours) Family Floating Support Practitioners to join our team,providing flexible, trauma informed and strengths based support to families experiencing homelessness, housing instability or multiple disadvantage.
You will work holistically with adults and children, helping families secure and sustain long-term accommodation, improve wellbeing, strengthen routines and build independence. Working across Bradford, you will provide personalised support in homes, community venues and partner sites, working closely with Housing Options, Family Hubs, Children's Social Care, schools, health services and VCSE partners.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about empowering families, reducing inequalities and delivering person-centred support that creates lasting change.
Main duties of the job
Hold a caseload of approximately 10 families. Provide person centred, trauma informed floating support to families. Complete holistic assessments and develop personalised Independence Plans. Support families to secure and sustain suitable long-term accommodation. Deliver tenancy sustainment support, including budgeting, routines and income maximisation. Build trusting relationships using strengths based and trauma informed approaches. Adapt communication and support for neurodivergent adults and children. Work collaboratively with housing, health, social care and voluntary sector partners. Attend multi-agency meetings and contribute to safeguarding processes where required. Maintain accurate records and contribute to service monitoring and reporting.
Promote health, wellbeing and independence through every contact.
About us
We are Bevan.
A social enterprise serving inclusion health communities and individuals, including people experiencing homelessness, refugees and asylum seekers, commercial sex workers, and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Our patients are among the most marginalised and socially excluded, many with multiple needs who have experienced and sometimes continue to experience trauma.
We work as a multi-disciplinary team, offering ano wrong doorapproach, ensuring patients receive the support they need by working together to find solutions.
Our GP practices in Bradford and Leeds are central to our offer, but equally important are the services that wrap around it, including:
Street health teams Mobile migrant health teams Hospital in-reach teams Wellbeing services (including a dedicated children and young people team)We are constantly working to expand our services to improve patient outcomes.
If you'd like to learn more about our award-winning organisation, visit our website.
Job description Job responsibilities
You will be required to:
You will deliver flexible, trauma-informed, strength-based floating support to families experiencing homelessness, housing instability or multiple disadvantage. You will work holistically with adults and children, supporting them to secure and sustain long-term accommodation, improve wellbeing, strengthen routines and build independence.
Job Dimensions
Hold a caseload of approximately 10 families.
Deliver personalised support in homes, community venues and partner sites.
Work collaboratively with Housing Options, Family Hubs, Childrens Social Care, schools, health services and VCSE partners.
Ensure support is culturally responsive, neuro-inclusive and accessible.
Key Responsibilities
Main Tasks
Provide personcentred support that empowers families to make informed choices.
Complete holistic assessments exploring housing history, risks, strengths, aspirations, routines, finances and wellbeing.
Develop personalised Independence Plans and review progress regularly.
Support families to secure suitable longterm housing, including social housing, private rented and specialist options.
Deliver practical tenancy sustainment support (budgeting, routines, income maximisation, problemsolving).
Communicate complex or sensitive information with compassion and clarity.
Use trauma-informed approaches to build trust, emotional safety and engagement.
Adapt communication and support for neurodivergent adults/children.
Attend multiagency meetings (Early Help, CIN, CP, MARAC, MAPPA).
Maintain accurate records and contribute to monitoring and reporting.
Promote every contact counts and encourage families to talk about health and wellbeing.
Communication and Working Relationships
Required to:
Build strong relationships with families, housing providers, social care, health partners and VCSE organisations.
Work collaboratively to reduce barriers and prevent tenancy breakdown.
Special Working Conditions
Work across Bradford district, including homes and community venues.
Occasional irregular hours to meet family needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Willingness to undertake relevant training (trauma informed, neurodiversity, safeguarding).
Desirable
Housing related or family support qualifications.
Skills Essential
Sensitivity, compassion and respect. Ability to communicate effectively with adults and children. Ability to deliver personalised support and behaviour change interventions. Ability to plan, organise and manage own workload. Ability to respond to changes in family circumstances or risk. Good interpersonal skills and ability to build trust. Basic IT skills and accurate record keeping. Ability to work collaboratively with partners. Ability to work professionally under pressure.
Desirable
Community language skills (Urdu/Punjabi/Arabic). Ability to deliver group sessions or workshops.
Experience Essential
Experience supporting families or individuals in challenging situations. Experience of personalised discussion and communicating complex information sensitively. Experience of multi agency working. Experience of behaviour change or motivational work. Experience of dealing with members of the public.
Desirable
Experience of floating support or outreach. Experience supporting neurodivergent adults/children. Experience working with refugees, care experienced parents or families facing trauma.
Other Essential
Commitment to high quality care. Full clean driving licence.
Desirable
If required, have some flexibility to be able to attend work/events on evenings and weekends, on occasion
Knowledge Essential
Understanding of homelessness, housing systems and tenancy sustainment. Knowledge of person centred, trauma informed and neuroinclusive practice. Understanding of safeguarding and multi agency processes. Understanding of equality, diversity and culturally competent practice. Understanding of limits and boundaries of the role.
Desirable
Knowledge of Bradfords local communities and demographics. Knowledge of domestic abuse, mental health, substance use or poverty related disadvantage.
Personal Attributes Essential
Professional, compassionate and respectful. Positive, resilient and solution focused. Calm and measured approach. Team player with willingness to help others.
Desirable
Lived experience of homelessness or family support services.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Bevan Community Benefit Society
Address 14 Piccadilly
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD1 3LS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://wearebevan.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)