Asset Coach

1. If you have the care and compassion for others and want to help someone else succeed and get back to everyday life, then we want to hear from you.
2. You'll work with individuals when they want it, to overcome and challenge the systemic barriers they may face in achieving their desired outcomes.
3. We offer 6.5 % employer contribution to the pension scheme with a minimum employee contribution and more.

Sometimes people find themselves going through tough times. Maybe they’ve had a bereavement, or they’ve lost a job, or trauma from their past is making it hard to be who they want to be. Sometimes people need help to keep their housing, and circumstances are so overwhelming they feel they can’t do it alone. 

Is this you? 

In this role, you’ll be the person they can turn to for help and support to achieve their chosen goals.  

If you have the care and compassion for others and want to help someone else succeed and get back to everyday life, then we want to hear from you. Whatever your background, your experience, or your knowledge. We look for people who have the passion for change. 

Our values are at the heart of everything we do

The ideal candidate will:

• Be caring and compassionate to everyone.
• Be a good listener.  
• Be connected to your community – know what resources are around, who can help, where clubs and events are happening. 
• Be proactive, innovative, and positive. 
• Be confident to speak out and to champion what is right. 
• Be open to learning new skills and ideas.  
• Passionate about mental health, homelessness, and poverty. 
• Full current driving licence and access to your own transport.
• Use your lived experience and experience of volunteering, caring, paid support or care, supporting friends. 

Role Responsibilities  

In line with PTS Values and Ethos, the Coach: 

• Works on a 1-1 basis with individuals, providing a coaching approach with people experiencing difficulties which include, but are not limited to, mental health and housing issues.  
• Works with individuals when they want it, to overcome and challenge the systemic barriers they may face in achieving their desired outcomes.  
• Works with each person to help them identify and dismantle their internal obstacles that hold them back. 
• Develops positive relationships within local communities and brokers opportunities that nurture and develop the talents and abilities of each individual.  
• Assists individuals in building up new and positive friendships and community networks. 
• Works with individuals to find their own personal motivation and hope for the future as they take control of their life within their community.  
• Engages in individual as well as group reflection within Platfform and the wider PTS partnership – and to be a critical friend to Platfform internally as well.  
• Where time and skills enable this, uses social media to promote the aims of the PTS and /or contributes to blogs to reflect on and promote the work of the PTS.