Housing Support Workers - Young Devon (Job Ref 21-50)

Night (Sleep-In) Role – 2 Nights per week

• 1 night based at Young Devon Supported Housing Project in Barnstaple
• 1 floating night per week in Barnstaple or Ilfracombe

4 week rolling rota (including some weekends if required), 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 Ilfracombe. We are also looking to recruit a Sleep-in Housing Support Worker based in our residential project in Barnstaple and one floating night per week in either Barnstaple or Ilfracombe.

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 – 11.30am on Friday 21^st January with interviews on Monday 31st January 2021

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

If you would like an informal discussion please contact Kerry Skipper on 07866 507172 or 07866 507172 

If you would like 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