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Financial Wellbeing Coach (x3)£25,500 p/a (please note successful candidates should expect to be appointed at the starting point of the salary scale and consideration may be given to a higher salary depending on the experience of the individual)Full-time (35 hours pw)South Wales (interventions will be delivered across various locations) Ref code: FIN-231Are you a proactive, flexible, and target-driven individual with a proven record of working with male adults in the criminal justice system whether in the community or in prisons?  Do you have extensive recent experience of providing specialist money and/or Welfare benefit advice?If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a collaborative Financial Wellbeing Coach to join our team, where you will be responsible for the delivery of Finance, Benefit and Debt services to referrals made by Wales Probation Service.About St Giles TrustAn ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes, and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions, and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. About this key roleAs our Financial Wellbeing Coach, you will provide person-centred support to a caseload of service users who will either be serving community sentences or have been released from prison.  This will involve undertaking assessment and action planning with individual service users and creating a safe and trusting environment, using trauma-informed practice to successfully facilitate a supportive and constructive relationship with service users.We will also count on you to deliver a range of interventions to service users which contribute towards the achievement of prescribed outcomes, and to work with service users flexibly, meeting and undertaking interventions in a range of locations across a wide geographical area.  Developing and maintaining positive working relationships with external agencies and working towards contractual targets and outcomes within agreed timescales and in line with specified quality standards are also vital aspects of the role.As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting, and promoting the safety of our clients. An enhanced Adult DBS check is required for all successful applicants.The contract requires clearance through HMPPS vetting.What we are looking forExperience of engaging successfully with challenging people, e.g., those with complex and multiple needsProven record of working with partner agenciesEvidence of training at specialist level in money and/or welfare benefits adviceHigher level certificate in money and/or welfare benefit advice from accreditationThe ability to assess clients’ needs and provide tailored, client-led supportAble to work sensitively with clients applying trauma informed strategiesWelsh Language and a full driver’s licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and communication skills, both verbal and writtenWelsh speaker desirableIn return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.Please note St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.We are an equity and inclusion-confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi-heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, or neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.If you require further information, or to apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button. If you have any queries, please contact humanresources@stgilestrust.org.uk.Closing date: 11pm, Sunday 17 December 2023.           Interview date: 21 December 2023.