Turning Point Progression Coach

UKundwork London; Wigan; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Wigan is seeking a Turning Point Progression Coach to empower individuals affected by drugs and alcohol. You will work closely with service users, providing personalized support and helping them achieve positive outcomes in education and employment. The ideal candidate is passionate about making a difference and has experience working in a supportive role.

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals affected by drugs and alcohol.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build rapport with service users.
• Ability to develop personalized support packages.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Turning Point staff to support service users.
• Promote independence and social skills through group activities.
• Assist individuals in achieving positive outcomes in education and employment.

Job description

Overview

Turning Point provides support to people who are affected by drugs and alcohol through free confidential advice, information, support and a variety of treatment options. This service covers Oldham and Rochdale. Groundwork works in partnership with Turning Point to support service users with positive progression into employment, education, training and volunteering activities.

Based in Rochdale, this role will work alongside the Turning Point staff team, including Groundwork IPS staff, to make a real difference to service users lives by developing personal, flexible and realistic support packages that individuals need to turn their life around.

Working with a caseload of service users, through a mixture of 121 and group activities, the role will concentrate on promoting independence, regaining and building on social skills, promoting health and well-being, and enabling individuals to achieve positive outcomes through securing voluntary opportunities, educational progression, and paid employment.

We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. We specialise in the following services and are committed to creating added social value through our delivery:

• Training & coaching for employment
• Early intervention to support health & wellbeing
• Safe & sustainable business support

As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Safeguarding and recruitment

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

How to apply

If you want to work in a values driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester, read on.

To apply please complete the forms below, ensuring you use the Job Description to carefully outline why you think you are suitable for this post.

We request that you complete our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring Form. If you prefer not to share this information, every question has a “prefer not to say” option which we would encourage you to use. Any information collected is used only for the purposes of monitoring the implementation of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy and procedures during recruitment and selection. The information is not used in any way to inform the shortlisting process. Data is held securely and is not provided to any member of the selection panel.

Please send these documents to [e-mail] and title the email ‘Turning Point Progression Coach’.

Should you require assistance with any aspect of the application process please contact us in advance so that we can agree reasonable adjustments that we can put in place for you. For this, or to discuss any questions you may have about the role, please contact Liane Kirk via [e-mail]

Appointment to this role may be subject to a record check through the Disclosure and Barring Service.