Health and Wellbeing Coach

**Permanent - Full Time**

We have an exciting new position and a real opportunity for a Health and Wellbeing Coach to work within our Lister Project Residential Care and Support scheme.

We are a forward thinking, values driven housing association, and this role is based in Gleadless, Sheffield.
- Salary: 4B/C £29,058 - £31,133
- Working hours: 37 per week Monday to Friday (including occasional evenings and weekends work with residents where identified)
- Benefits which include an excellent flexible working scheme, family friendly perks, wellbeing scheme, discounts scheme.
- Access to a wide range of programs to train and develop you
- Paid for professional supervision
- Pension contribution

**More about the role**:

- Lister’s Health and Wellbeing Coach will provide support to adults with enduring mental health conditions who are currently living in, or who will move into Lister Project residential accommodation.
- The primary focus of the role is to move away from a maintenance approach and to support individual customers with their living skills to move towards greater independence, including those customers identified for recovery and out of 24/7 residential provision.
- The main purpose of the role is to manage a case load of 12/15 customers identified by the Registered Project Lead and team for work around enhancing insight, confidence, quality of life and wellbeing, resilience and independent living skills using therecovery focused therapeutic approach. The aim being to develop skills tenable to a move into more independent accommodation.
- The Health and Wellbeing Coach reports to the Registered Project Lead and works in tandem with Project Leads, Key Workers, the Promoting Independence team as well as Statutory Health and Social Care representatives.

**Who you are**:
The Health and Wellbeing Coach will be a person-centred case worker, leading on action planning and working with customers to build on skills and assets that can support their journey to live independently. With experience and a qualification in Counselling(or other psychology related qualification) Occupational Therapy or Allied Health Professional Qualification at Degree level which would meet the requirements for relevant accreditation e.g. BACP, NMC, HCPC
- You must be passionate about customer service
- Have an ability to motivate and engage customers
- Be committed to understand and take account of the aspirations and assets of customers
- Have coaching /motivational interviewing qualification or experience
- Ability to adopt a strength-based coaching/motivational interviewing approach to support customers
- Ability to work to an outcome
- based model whilst evidencing improving people’s health and well-being
- Ability to adjust approach and mange difficult situations
- Ability to work on your own initiative and organise own workload
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people and work as part of a multidisciplinary team and understand partnership working
- Have a commitment to equality and diversity
- Have a commitment to SYHA values and behaviours
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to use a wide range of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint and Access.

**Who we are**:
At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.

Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways - from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can accessin their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.

For the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 this is an excluded job.

**For an Informal Discussion Contact**: Hazel Liparoti, Registered Project Lead
**Closing Date**: 20/03/22 midnight
**Interview Date**:24/03/22