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Young Person’s Housing Support Worker (Days) – North Devon (Job Ref 24-43)
1-year Fixed term contract
17.5 hours per week – set on a 4-week rolling rota
£12 per hour
Based in Ilfracombe and Barnstaple
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, conscientious person to join our Supported Housing team in our Barnstaple and Ilfracombe projects.
You will be lone working with young people (aged 16-25) who have a range of support and housing needs. Providing a holistic service assisting with accessing benefits, managing finances, health and wellbeing, maintaining accommodation, accessing education, employment or training. In addition to this you will sometimes give further support and sign-posting for additional needs. You will need to take a creative approach to support, adapting your style of communication with each individual to provide a person-centred approach to help the young people establish and work towards their goals and aspirations.
You will also take an active role in the management and oversight of the buildings undertaking health and safety checks.
This post has on-call support from management.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Wednesday 25th September 2024
Interviews: Thursday 3rd October 2024
You can request an application pack from hr@youngdevon.org or download from our website at
Please read the job description and person specification. If you then have any further questions about the role please contact Kerry Skipper on 01271 326232 or 07866 507172.
Young Devon is a youth work charity (1057949) who is actively committed to embracing diversity.
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
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