YOUNG PERSON’S HOUSING SUPPORT WORKER - BARNSTAPLE
An invitation to join us at Young Devon as our next…
Young Person’s Housing support worker - Days (Job Ref 25-76)
8 hours per week at £24,630.81 pro rata, per annum
Permanent contract - Based in Barnstaple
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, conscientious person to join our Supported Housing team in our Barnstaple 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 for applications:
12 noon on Tuesday 19th February 2026 with interviews on Thursday 26th February 2026
To apply for this role – please request an Application Pack from hr@youngdevon.org or click the links below:
Application Form – Young Persons Support Worker Days (25-76)
Job description and person spec - Young Persons Housing Support Worker Days (25-76)
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 07866507172.
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.
