Support Coach

We are currently recruiting for a Support Coach to join our HIPS scheme in Kirklees. This role will be part time, 24 hours per week. This is a maternity cover role, until August 2025. HIPS works alongside people who are experiencing homelessness, are at risk of homelessness, or who are at risk of losing their home due to experiencing difficult times.

The role
The Support Coach will work alongside individuals to identify and overcome any barriers they may face in achieving their ambitions around housing, financial resilience, health, wellbeing and community involvement.
The post holder will provide personalised coaching to assist people to transition out of difficult times e.g. homelessness, ill-health, unemployment etc. The post holder will adopt a person led approach, and is responsible for working alongside individuals to enable them to achieve their goals and aspirations.

• Understanding of and/or experience of the challenges faced by people going through difficult times e.g. homelessness, ill-health, offending, unemployment etc. This could be through paid employment volunteering or lived experience.


• Understanding of and/or experience of strength-based, person-led approaches to working alongside people.


• Ability to build effective working relationships with people based on transparency, trust and respect.


• Ability to develop and maintain strong partnership working; liaising and working closely with other agencies/organisations to provide holistic support.


• Experience of developing action plans and providing appropriate coaching, advice and guidance would be desirable.


• Understanding of trauma informed practice would be desirable.


• Ability to listen to people and recognise them as experts in their own lives.


• Commitment to Equality & Diversity


• Valid driving licence and use of vehicle insured for business use


• Ability to maintain professional boundaries


• Willingness to undertake further training as necessary, Disability Confident

About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

In return, this role is offering a salary of £17,151 per year. The role also offers excellent benefits including 6 weeks annual leave (+ Bank Holidays), and exceptional training and development opportunities.