Young Person's Housing Support Worker
Housing Support Worker – Sleep-In (Job Ref 24-41)
Salary - £125.25 per night
Part-time – 2 nights per week over a 4-week rota
Permanent position
Based in Barnstaple
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, conscientious person to join our Supported Housing team in our Barnstaple 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.
We also have bank hours available, please see our website (https://www.youngdevon.org/about/work-for-us) for more details.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Thursday 26th September 2024.Interviews: Friday 4th October 2024.
You can request an application pack from hr@youngdevon.org or download from our website at https://www.youngdevon.org/work-for-us
Please submit your application form to hr@youngdevon.org
Please read the job description and person specification. If you then have any further questions about the role please contact Kerry Skipper on 01271 326232/07866 507172.
Young Devon is a youth work charity (1057949) passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and 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.