Housing Support Workers - Young Devon (Job Ref 21-35)

Day Role

A range of hours currently available (Mon-Fri) with a minimum of 7 per week and a maximum of 20 per week based at Young Devon Supported Housing Project in Ivybridge.

Permanent Contract

Night (Sleep-In) Role

Salary - £111. 38 per night shift

2 nights per week, based at Young Devon Supported Housing Project in Ivybridge.

Permanent Contract

We are happy to consider applications for these posts individually or combined.  Please state which role/s you wish to apply for on your application form. If you are applying for the Day role, please state how many hours you can work per week on your application form.

We are looking to recruit daytime Housing Support Workers to work in our supported housing projects, working in a mixture of residential and floating support projects in Ivybridge/Totnes and a Sleep-in Housing Support Worker based in our residential project in Ivybridge. 

You will be working with vulnerable young people aged 16 -25 years old, supporting them through the transition to independence. You will provide resettlement support and life skills training to residents, and you will be required to act as a key worker to these residents, taking responsibility for the building whilst on shift.

This post includes lone working with on-call support from management.

Young Devon is a youth work charity (1057949) who is actively committed to embracing diversity. We particularly welcome applicants from areas under-represented within our workforce.

Closing date for applications:

9:30 am on Wednesday 29^th September with interviews on Thursday 14^th October 2021

Please click on the above, which will take you to our website and a link to the full job description.

If you would like an informal discussion please contact:

Sue Tod (Head of Supported Housing) on 01752 651612 / 07811 321711

 For an application pack please contact hr@youngdevon.org

Young Devon is committed to Safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and all applicants who will or could have unsupervised access to these groups will complete the required checks through the Disclosure and Barring Service