Young Person's Coach

Brackenberry; Chichester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local authority contractor in Chichester is seeking a Young Person's Coach for a 5-month contract, focusing on providing intensive support to young people with complex needs. Key responsibilities include engaging youth with care planning tools and coordinating assessments with professionals. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and an understanding of safeguarding protocols. Immediate availability is preferred.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of safeguarding, child protection procedures, and statutory frameworks for children and young people.
• Experience in risk assessment and safeguarding practice.

Responsibilities

• Support young people to engage with assessment tools for care planning.
• Coordinate assessments and liaise with professionals in various sectors.
• Develop innovative practice approaches for complex needs.

Skills

Understanding of safeguarding and child protection

Experience in risk assessment

Education

Relevant qualifications in youth work, social care, psychology, or education

Job description

Overview

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in West Sussex to assist with the appointment of a Young Person\'s Coach, on a 5-month contract, highly likely to be extended at the client\'s discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay

£19.71 - £26.00 per hour

Summary

The Young Persons Coach will play a key role in the Complex Lives Project, an innovative initiative designed to reshape support for young people at risk of, or subject to, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLs). The role focuses on delivering dedicated, intensive, and flexible support to a small caseload of young people with highly complex needs. By building trusted relationships, the Coach will empower young people to have a stronger voice in their care planning, engage with assessment tools, and co-produce interventions that improve long-term outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support young people to engage with the CANS (Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths) tool, ensuring their views shape care planning and outcomes.
• Lead or coordinate CANS assessments and liaise with professionals across education, health, youth justice, and social care.
• Contribute to developing innovative practice approaches for supporting young people with complex needs.

Essentials

• Strong understanding of safeguarding, child protection procedures, and statutory frameworks for children and young people.
• Relevant qualifications in youth work, social care, psychology, education, or health.
• Experience in risk assessment and safeguarding practice.

Please note

• You should be available to work immediately or at short notice.
• You should have right to work in the UK.
• This role requires an Enhanced DBS.

Disclaimer

Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important

We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. If the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.