Beacon Housing Domestic Abuse Lead Practitioner

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy empowered supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

Tasks

Beacon Leeds is a partnership of 3 Leeds-based charities; Turning Lives Around (TLA) Touchstone and Inspire North. Beacon provides a city-wide Housing Related Support accommodation service for vulnerable adults couples and families to prevent homelessness and address housing need.

Requirements

The postholder will work within a dynamic fast paced housing support service to ensure the voice of survivors informs every stage of the process specialising in working with clients for whom housing and risk of tenancy breakdown and unplanned outcomes are a factor. The postholder will need to be able to establish positive proactive and innovative working relationships with a range of services and organisations across the Beacon partnership whilst supporting a caseload of victim survivors.

Benefits

As an employee of Touchstone you will benefit from the following:

• Working for a diverse and inclusive organisation e.g. 36% *BME staff 25% *LGBTQ staff 16% *staff with a disability. Staff and peer support networks (*as above and many more)
• 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Flexible working opportunities
• Personal wellbeing budget. Access to counselling and 24/7 confidential staff helpline.
• Health and wellbeing activities and fun staff team away days
• Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
• Additional day of leave as a celebration day or health and wellbeing
• Learning and personal development opportunities

CLOSING DATE: Sunday 08 February 2026

Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 18 February 2026

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation an equal rights employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community particularly BME and LGB and Trans communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. All applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria will be interviewed. Additional information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role if appointed you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.

Please note that feedback is not provided to applicants who have not been shortlisted. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.