Skills and Development Coach

Suffolk Jobs Direct; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education charity is seeking a Skills Coach in Suffolk to engage and mentor young people with special educational needs. The role offers flexibility with full-time or part-time options, and involves traveling to deliver personalized education programs. Ideal candidates will possess excellent interpersonal skills and a strong commitment to holistic youth development.

Benefits

Mileage reimbursement

Opportunities for professional development

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people with special educational needs.
• Ability to deliver personalized education programmes.
• Willingness to drive to various locations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver best practice coaching in both 1:1 and small group settings.
• Engage with young people facing exclusion from education.
• Support students with complex needs in their personal development.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Creativity

Coaching

Mentoring

Job description

Job Description

• Lapwing Education – Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex
• Up to £32,452 per annum, depending on experience
• 37.5 hours per week, term time only
• Full Time or Part Time
• Permanent
• Reference: 0243
• Required as soon as possible, by January 2026
• Peripatetic role delivering education programmes within your area of Suffolk
  
  
  

Are you good at engaging hard to reach young people? Are you searching for an organisation which believes strongly in the holistic development of young people? Do you want to work for a student-centred provision which offers highly personalised and exciting learning opportunities? Are you keen to develop your therapeutic capabilities supporting students with complex needs? Do you have a car and are you willing to drive to work with students?

Lapwing continues to grow and strengthen its peripatetic Education Team across Suffolk, Norfolk and north Essex and is looking for versatile skills coaches, working out of home, to deliver best practice coaching and mentoring to young people with special educational needs. This role may involve the delivery of therapeutic, life skills and/or employability-based programmes in both a 1:1 and very small group capacity in local venues.

You will have the potential to be an outstanding coach and mentor with knowledge and experience of working with young people with special educational needs. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and creative approaches.

Lapwing is a specialist education provider and charity currently expanding in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, working with young people (aged 4-25 years old) facing exclusion from education, employment and the community through social, emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties and disabilities. Lapwing delivers a broad range of highly personalised education programmes and projects that are designed to meet the needs of, and help realise the aspirations of, each student.

This is ideally a full-time position, but part time appointments (minimum 0.8 FTE) are possible for the right candidate(s). The post is peripatetic covering education programmes predominantly delivered within 30 miles of home, depending on where candidates live. Mileage is reimbursed and there are opportunities for professional development and career progression as the charity grows.

For more information

To find out more about us, please visit our website (lapwingeducation.co.uk) .

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Will Fletcher, CEO by calling 07501 969099.

How To Apply

To apply, please visit the Join Us page of our website (lapwingeducation.co.uk/join-us) .

Please return your completed application to Kirsty Burgess, Education Support Administrator by emailing [e-mail] .

Please note that CVs and partially completed application forms will not be accepted.

Closing date: 9am, 23 June 2025

Promoted as FJ (Featured Job) on Suffolk Jobs Direct.

Lapwing Education welcomes everyone and creates inclusive teams. We celebrate difference and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work. Appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Lapwing is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

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