Directorate: People Services
Hours: 15 hours a week, Monday and Tuesday, 39 weeks a year including inset days
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Littleover Community School & Sixth Form Centre,
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to the post of Wellbeing Coach, to join our hardworking team here at LCS. On a day-to-day basis, you will take responsibility for a caseload of students, providing 1:1, planned, target-based, wellbeing coaching. You will use a wellbeing scale to baseline new cases and evaluate with your students, planning next steps. In addition, for each week, you will plan, resource and run targeted group interventions and elective wellbeing activities for the wider student community, based on specific aspects of wellbeing.
Alongside your caseload, you will see students on an ad-hoc, drop-in basis for wellbeing support and to provide a listening ear and will also be expected to communicate, as appropriately, with parents/carers and staff, under the direction of the DSL.
We are looking for candidates who:
- Have experience of supporting, advising and assisting young people
- Have excellent standards of literacy and numeracy (GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths)
- Are able to work independently but also effectively as part of a team
- Have a commitment to improve the psychological wellbeing of young people and a desire to see them thrive
- Have a flexible attitude to work and a willingness to adapt to change
The person appointed to this position will need to be flexible, well organised, professional and have the ability to communicate with staff and students at all levels. They should be numerate with excellent IT skills and the ability to adapt to new systems.