Housing Support Worker - Sleep-In (1 night per week)

An invitation to join us at Young Devon as our next…
Housing Support Worker - Sleep-in (Job Ref 23-82)
Salary - £130.25 per night
12.5 hours – (1 night per week)
Based in Paignton
We have an exciting opportunity for motivated, conscientious individuals to join our supported housing team in Grosvenor Road, Paignton.
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.
Young Devon is a youth work charity (1057949) who is actively committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon on 14th February 2024
Interviews: 20th February 2024
If you would like an informal discussion, or arrange to visit the project, please contact:
Diane Rae (Head of Service) 07740448984
You can request an application pack (which includes the application form and the job description & person specification) from hr@youngdevon.org or download from our website at https://www.youngdevon.org/work-for-us/housing-support-worker-sleep-in
Please submit your application form to 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.

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