Life Coach

5 months ago


Redditch, United Kingdom YMCA Worcestershire Full time

The Life Coach is pivotal to ensuring that YMCA Worcestershire supports vulnerable people to help them to move towards independent living.

The Life Coach will work alongside our service users to enable them to reach their full potential by:

- helping them manage their accommodation
- enabling them to engage in training
- supporting them in using their time in a constructive manner
- empowering them to re-established supportive networks and relationships

Duties and Responsibilities:

- To provide day to day support to young adults with complex and coexisting needs that occur due to poor mental health, learning differences, substance misuse and childhood trauma ensuring they are appropriately assessed and supported.
- To provide day to day support to young adults with complex and coexisting needs that occur due to poor mental health, learning differences, substance misuse and childhood trauma ensuring they are appropriately assessed and supported. The role will involve working collaboratively with a range of specialist services including Child and Adult Mental Health Services to ensure these needs are met.
- To develop an in-depth understanding of childhood trauma and its impact on mental wellbeing and be able to deliver appropriate information, intervention, advice, guidance and support to individuals and/or groups.
- To develop and maintain operational links with key partners and stakeholders keeping them fully informed of pathways and the needs of young adults with complex difficulties.
- To contribute to the preparation of reports to the required organisational standard and to participate in reviews for individuals.
- To attend appraisal and supervision and support your continuing professional development.
- To uphold and maintain the Christian aims and purposes of YMCA Worcestershire and the wider YMCA global movement.

Duties and Responsibilities (cont’d):

- To ensure that young adults’ individual views, aspirations and needs are a core element to their support plan.
- To have a clear understanding of all pathways in order to ensure there is synergy within team working and service delivery.
- To support the assessment of each young adult and engage in supporting them to recognise their support needs and goals in the areas of accommodation, health & well-being, employment, education and training.
- To help identify underlying causes to challenging behaviour and other health needs and provide information, advice, guidance and support as appropriate to engage with specialist services.
- To utilise a variety of situations, processes and ‘media’ to take advantage of all interactions with young adults in actively promoting their development.
- To provide advocacy and mediation on behalf of young adults where required whilst enabling them to develop assertiveness and improved communication skills.
- To take a proactive approach towards case management.
- To work holistically with other partners to effectively plan the young adults’ progression via evidencing key milestones identified within the support plan and recording / reviewing progress at regular intervals.
- To coach the young adults and provide opportunities for establishing positive relationships with other individual workers within YMCA Worcestershire in order to increase their experiences of safe and consistent adults.
- To develop partnership working with other agencies to ensure young adults receive full access to a range of services designed to meet their education, employment & training, health & well-being and accommodation needs.
- To work closely with all partner agencies to ensure a coordinated multi agency response to all substance use issues, in particular, specialist substance misuse services and CAMHS / AMHS.
- To keep accurate records and case notes of all young adults within the case work portfolio.
- To measure young adults’ progress through the use of their support plan.
- To contribute to training on complex needs both internally and externally.
- To assist in the monitoring and evaluation of the service.
- To carry out any other duties that may from time to time become necessary and fall within the scope of the job.
- To actively participate in supervision, training and commitment to continued professional development.
- To be tolerant and understanding of unusual and/or unsociable behaviour and have the ability to enforce clear boundaries when required.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £10.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay

Work Location: In person



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