Independent Living Skills Coach

Salvation Army Homes
The Role
This is a key post contributing to the delivery of Salvation Army Homes' support services to its residents at West Farm and associated training flats. Working within our corporate aims and objectives you will deliver a person centred, outcome focused service to the young people we work with. You will be responsible for working in a strength based, trauma informed way to empower and enable young people to develop the skills to reach their full potential and move towards independence.
What you'll be doing
Act as a keyworker to a caseload of young people, coproducing their personal “My Journey” plan and enabling them to achieve their goals and aspirations
• Work with young people using a coaching approach, addressing their physical, emotional, social and behavioural needs, supporting them to progress towards independence
• Build supportive relationships with the young people living in our services whilst maintaining professional boundaries
• Deal with challenging behaviour in a trauma informed way, keeping within the boundaries of policies and procedures.
• Keep records of support, and risk management plans, undertaking regular reviews to ensure goals are identified and achieved
• To ensure that young people who are ready to move on have an appropriate network
• To work with you line manager to continuously develop the role and the service in line w...