Financial Wellbeing Coach

Wales (Newport, Cardiff, Wrexham)

Ref: FWW-241

Are you a proactive, flexible, and target-driven individual with a proven record of working with male adults in the criminal justice system whether in the community or in prisons?  Do you have extensive recent experience of providing specialist money and/or Welfare benefit advice?

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a collaborative Financial Wellbeing Coach to join our team, where you will be responsible for the delivery of Finance, Benefit and Debt services to referrals made by Wales Probation Service.

About St Giles Trust 

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes, and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions, and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. 

About this key role

As our Financial Wellbeing Coach, you will provide person-centred support to a caseload of service users who will either be serving community sentences or have been released from prison.  This will involve undertaking assessment and action planning with individual service users and creating a safe and trusting environment, using trauma-informed practice to successfully facilitate a supportive and constructive relationship with service users. 

We will also count on you to deliver a range of interventions to service users which contribute towards the achievement of prescribed outcomes, including group work sessions, and to work with service users flexibly, meeting and undertaking interventions in a range of locations across a wide geographical area.  Developing and maintaining positive working relationships with external agencies and working towards contractual targets and outcomes within agreed timescales and in line with specified quality standards are also vital aspects of the role.

What we are looking for

• Experience of engaging successfully with challenging people, e.g., those with complex and multiple needs

• Proven record of working with partner agencies

• Evidence of training at specialist level in money and/or welfare benefits advice 

• Higher level certificate in money and/or welfare benefit advice from accreditation 

• The ability to assess clients’ needs and provide tailored, client-led support 

• Able to work sensitively with clients applying trauma informed strategies

• Welsh Language and a full driver’s licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.

• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and communication skills, both verbal and written

• Welsh speaker desirable

As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting, and promoting the safety of our clients. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

As the successful candidate will need to undertake security vetting, although we encourage people with lived experience to apply for our roles, ex-offenders as defined by the MOJ (‘Ex-offenders are defined as individuals whose community/suspended sentence order; license or post sentence supervision has been completed and there is no longer a right to recall’) may not pass security vetting.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, childcare vouchers, season ticket loan and much more.

Please note St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

Closing date: 11pm, 12th October 2024. 

Interview date: 25th October 2024.

A ydych chi'n unigolyn rhagweithiol, hyblyg sy'n cael ei yrru gan dargedau ac sydd â hanes profedig o weithio gydag oedolion gwrywaidd yn y system cyfiawnder troseddol boed yn y gymuned neu mewn carchardai?  A oes gennych chi brofiad helaeth diweddar o ddarparu cyngor ariannol arbenigol a/neu ar fudd-daliadau lles?

Os felly, mae Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles yn chwilio am Hyfforddwr Lles Ariannol cydweithredol i ymuno â'n tîm, lle byddwch chi'n gyfrifol am ddarparu gwasanaethau Cyllid, Budd-daliadau a Dyledion i unigolion a atgyfeirir atom gan Wasanaeth Prawf Cymru.

Ynghylch Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles 

Elusen uchelgeisiol, wedi’i hen sefydlu sy’n helpu pobl sy’n wynebu helbulon i ddod o hyd i swyddi, cartrefi a’r gefnogaeth gywir y mae ei hangen arnynt yw Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles. Yn ganolog i'n hethos mae ein cred bod pobl sydd â phrofiad uniongyrchol o oresgyn problemau fel cefndir troseddol, digartrefedd, dibyniaeth ar gyffuriau ac alcohol ac aelodaeth mewn gangiau, yn allweddol i newid cadarnhaol mewn eraill. 

Ynghylch y rôl allweddol hon

Fel ein Hyfforddwr Lles Ariannol, byddwch yn darparu cymorth sy'n canolbwyntio ar yr unigolyn i lwyth achosion o ddefnyddwyr gwasanaeth a fydd naill ai'n treulio dedfrydau cymunedol neu wedi cael eu rhyddhau o'r carchar.  Bydd hyn yn cynnwys cynnal gwaith asesu a chynllunio gweithredu gyda defnyddwyr gwasanaeth unigol a chreu amgylchedd diogel ac ymddiriedus, gan ddefnyddio arfer sy'n seiliedig ar drawma i hwyluso perthynas gefnogol ac adeiladol â defnyddwyr gwasanaeth yn llwyddiannus. 

Byddwch hefyd yn darparu amrywiaeth o ymyriadau i ddefnyddwyr gwasanaeth er mwyn cyflawni canlyniadau rhagnodedig, gan gynnwys sesiynau gwaith grŵp, ac yn gweithio gyda defnyddwyr gwasanaeth yn hyblyg, gan ymgymryd ag ymyriadau mewn amrywiaeth o leoliadau ar draws ardal ddaearyddol eang.  Mae datblygu a chynnal perthynas waith gadarnhaol gydag asiantaethau allanol a gweithio tuag at dargedau a chanlyniadau cytundebol o fewn amserlenni y cytunwyd arnynt ac yn unol â safonau ansawdd penodedig hefyd yn agweddau hanfodol ar y rôl.

Yr hyn yr ydym ni'n chwilio amdano

• Profiad o ymgysylltu'n llwyddiannus â phobl heriol, e.e. rhai ag anghenion cymhleth 

a lluosog

• Hanes profedig o weithio gydag asiantaethau partner

• Tystiolaeth o hyfforddiant ar lefel arbenigol mewn cyngor ariannol a/neu budd-daliadau lles 

• Tystysgrif lefel uwch mewn cyngor ariannol a/neu fudd-daliadau lles trwy achrediad 

• Y gallu i asesu anghenion cleientiaid a darparu cymorth wedi'i deilwra a arweinir gan gleientiaid 

• Y gallu i weithio mewn dull sensitif gyda chleientiaid sy'n defnyddio strategaethau sail-trawma

• Mae gwybodaeth o'r Gymraeg a thrwydded yrru lawn ynghŷd a mynediad at gerbyd yn ddymunol.

• Sgiliau rhyngbersonol, meithrin-perthynas a chyfathrebu rhagorol, ar lafar ac yn ysgrifenedig

• Siaradwr Cymraeg yn ddymunol

Fel sefydliad sy'n gweithio gyda phlant ac oedolion sydd mewn perygl, rydym wedi ymrwymo i ddiogelu, amddiffyn a hyrwyddo diogelwch ein cleientiaid. Mae angen gwiriad DBS manylach ar gyfer pob ymgeisydd llwyddiannus.

Bydd angen i'r ymgeisydd llwyddiannus ymgymryd â fetio diogelwch. Er ein bod yn annog pobl sydd â phrofiad personol i wneud cais am ein rolau, efallai na fydd cyn-droseddwyr fel y'u diffinnir gan y Weinyddiaeth Cyfiawnder ('Diffinnir cyn-droseddwyr fel unigolion y mae eu gorchymyn dedfryd gymunedol/ataliedig, goruchwyliaeth trwydded neu ôl-ddedfryd wedi'i chwblhau ac nid oes hawl bellach i alw'n ôl') yn pasio fetio diogelwch.

Yn gyfnewid am hyn, gallwch ddisgwyl cyflog cystadleuol, lwfans gwyliau hael, pensiwn staff, gweithio hyblyg, rhaglen fentora, gwasanaeth cynghori a chwnsela, talebau gofal plant, benthyciad tocyn tymor a llawer mwy.

Dyddiad cau: 11pm, 12 Hydref 2024.

Dyddiad cyfweld: 25 Hydref 2024.