YOUNG PERSON’S HOUSING SUPPORT WORKER (SLEEP-IN)- IVYBRIDGE
An invitation to join us at Young Devon as our next…
Young Person’s Housing Support Worker (Sleep in) (Job Ref 26-64)
2 Sleep-In Shifts per week – Friday and Saturday nights (7:30pm to 9:30am)
Permanent Contract - Based in Ivybridge - £132.28 per shift
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, conscientious person to join our Supported Housing team in our Ivybridge project.
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: Noon on Thursday 22nd October 2026
Interviews: Thursday 29th October 2026
To apply for this role – please request an Application Pack from hr@youngdevon.org or click the links below:
Application Form – Young Persons Housing Support Worker - Ivybridge - Sleep In (26-64)
Please submit your application form to hr@youngdevon.org
Please read the job description and person specification.
If you would like an informal discussion, or arrange to visit the project, please contact:
Katherine Weedall (Supported Housing Area Manager) on 01752 680061 or 07973 599920
What can we offer?
Young Devon provides generous holiday entitlement from day one, not to mention our welcoming, kind and passionate workplace culture.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for overseas candidates.
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.
