Trainer Assessor (Ref: TRA-261)

Are you an experienced trainer who is passionate about helping people develop their skills, confidence and opportunities? Do you have experience of working with young people or families facing adversity and want to use your knowledge to make a real difference? If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a Project Trainer and Assessor to join our Aspiring Champions team in Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.

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 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 the Project
Aspiring Champions is a community-based project supporting young mothers aged 14–24 who are at risk of, or affected by, criminal and sexual exploitation.

The project takes a trauma-informed and strengths-based approach, helping young women and their children to overcome challenges, build confidence and achieve positive outcomes. A key part of the project is developing Community Champions with lived experience, enabling people to build the knowledge, skills and confidence to support others and play an active role within their communities.

About this key role
As a Project Trainer and Assessor, you will play a key role in delivering and developing the project across Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.

You will deliver training in areas including advice and guidance, coaching and mentoring, supporting staff, volunteers and Community Champions to develop their skills and confidence.

You will also provide assessment and progression support, helping learners to work towards recognised qualifications where appropriate. If you are not already a qualified assessor, you will have the opportunity to work towards a TAQA qualification.

Alongside your training responsibilities, you will help develop partnerships, facilitate workshops and community activities, and provide direct support to participants where appropriate.

What we are looking for

• Experience of delivering community, family or youth support services 
• Experience of developing and delivering training 
• A recognised assessor qualification such as TAQA, CAVA or A1, or willingness to work towards one 
• Knowledge of advice and guidance, coaching or mentoring approaches 
• Experience of working with vulnerable young people or families experiencing multiple disadvantage 
• Knowledge of trauma-informed, strengths-based and person-centred approaches 
• A strong understanding of safeguarding and professional boundaries 
• Excellent communication, facilitation and partnership-working skills 
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain accurate records 
• Good IT skills, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook 
• Ability to work independently while contributing positively to a team

Please note: this role requires an Enhanced Child and Adult DBS check.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, access to clinical supervision, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.

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, 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.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.