Finance, Benefit and Debt Coach

Are 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 Finance, Benefits and Debt Coach to join our team, providing a range of support to community offenders and prison leavers around issues such as debt, finance and welfare benefits advice and support. About St Giles Trust An 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 beliefthat 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 role As our Finance, Benefits and Debt 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 ..... full job details .....