Young Adult Intervention Coach
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £33,500 to £35,000 pro rata
Hours: FTE
Reporting to: Frontline Intervention Coach Team Manager
Accountable to: Frontline Director
DBS Required: Enhanced DBS.
Application Closing Date: 11:59 pm, Sunday, 29 September 2024
Please Note: The starting point of the salary scale is dependent on you having evidence of extensive experience and skills in street work and detached outreach work as well as relevant frontline experience of working with at risk young people of frontline work with young people.
Please Note: These working hours will be worked, according to business needs and notified to you in advance. You will be required to work late afternoons, evenings, and weekends as part of your normal working week as necessitated by the needs of the business.
About the role
Role
Purpose
The purpose of this role is to deliver Streets of Growth’s Appropriate Intervention Model via the Bridging Programme. This programme engages and works with vulnerable at-risk young adults (15-25 years old) who are disengaging from mainstream support and have experienced
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Criminal exploitation and violence
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Sexual exploitation and violence
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Physical, emotional and sexual abuse within home and external settings
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Young hidden carers
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On-going Trauma and post-traumatic stress
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Poverty and social inequalities in relation
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Anti-social behaviour and negative peer relationships
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Justice system
You will have the skills and confidence to use strategic planning to reach out to and engage with high-risk young people who are hard to engage and those involved in harmful, crisis situations. Your purpose is to identify, disrupt, challenge, and support young people to move out of harm and prevent further involvement in harmful activities. This will involve targeted street work, specialised one-to-one harm reduction and life skills coaching.
As a Youth Intervention Coach (YIC), you will be responsible for the assessment and implementation of tailored intervention coaching plans for each at-risk young person on your caseload. You will work to achieve progression outcomes for each young person that includes reducing mental, physical, and emotional harm and supporting each young person’s transition to a positive, thriving lifestyle both on a one-to-one basis and in partnership with other significant individuals in a young person's life. Alongside this, you will work with intervention frontline colleagues in tertiary interventions such as knife and gun crime crisis situations as well as working with partner agencies.
Benefits
Summary
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25 annual leave days plus bank holidays per year raising to 28 Annual leave days on 2 years of employment
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A fair and benchmarked salary with consistent salary Reviews
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Pension scheme of up to 8% contribution
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Employee Assisted Scheme 24/7
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Generous individual training budget
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Great Location near tubes, Spitalfields, Brick Lane and direct access to Central London