Job title and organisation: Early Help - Substance Use Specialist - The Bridge Project
Salary: £30,790 - 31,851 per annum
Hours: 28 - 33.5
Contract: Permanent
Location: Bradford
Closing Date and Time: Monday 29 September at 9 AM
The Bridge Project is pleased to announce some exciting employment opportunities. We are seeking three highly competent practitioners to be Early Help Substance Use Specialists. Two roles are for 33.5 hours per week, and one role is for 28 hours per week.
The Early Help Substance Use Team enhances Bradford Children and Families Trust Family Hubs by embedding a dedicated team of Substance Use Specialist roles. Their purpose is to strengthen the system’s ability to identify and respond earlier where parental substance use may be emerging, unacknowledged, minimised, or only partially understood.
All roles in this strand are non-case holding. Instead, the team works alongside Early Help practitioners at all grades, providing consultation, reflective practice, training, auditing, and modelling of best practice. The aim is to ensure consistent, high-quality responses to parental substance use within Early Help and to build practitioner confidence in working with families where substance use may be hidden or minimised.
Each Early Help Substance Use Specialist is embedded in one of Bradford’s four Family Hubs and works as part of a coordinated team, under the direction of the Lead Practitioner – Substance Use Specialist and Service Manager.
We are looking for practitioners who have at least 3 years’ experience in substance misuse/substance use delivery services, with proven expertise in early intervention, along with the ability to undertake safeguarding and risk analysis in complex family contexts. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to provide clear feedback, reports and recommendations is essential as is being skilled in trauma-informed and relational practice approaches.
Bridge is a value driven organisation, and these strong values are the foundation of our organisation stability and are at the heart of what we do. It is essential that all employees meet our expected standards around key behaviours, which represent standards of conduct, collaboration and professionalism that underpin how we work with each other, with our partners, and with the people who use our services.
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, 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.
If you would like further information about the roles, please contact Tracey Hogan, Director of Operations on tracey.hogan@thebridgeproject.org.uk to arrange this.
To find out more information and to download an application pack, please visit Jobs and Volunteering - The Bridge Project You must complete the Bridge Project’s application form in order to be considered for the role. The application form plays a key part in our recruitment and selection process. We use the information you provide about your skills, experience, career and education history to decide whether or not to invite you for an interview. It is important that you complete the application form as fully and accurately as possible, ensuring that you give specific examples which demonstrate how you meet the criteria.
No CV’s are accepted. No Employment Agencies please.
It is essential that you indicate on the application form whether you are applying for a 33.5 hour role or 28 hour role, or both.
Closing Date: 9.00 am Monday 29 September 2025
Shortlisting Date: Monday 29 September 2025
Interview Date: Shortlisted candidates must be available to attend interview on Thursday 2 October, candidates will be contacted via telephone on 29 September.
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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