Young Persons Housing Support Worker Ilfracombe

An invitation to join us at Young Devon as our next…

14 hours per week (Monday and Tuesdays each week) at £25,247 pro rata, per annum

Permanent contract
- Based in Ilfracombe

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, conscientious person to join our Supported Housing team in our Ilfracombe 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:
Noon on Monday 16th November 2026

Interviews:
Tuesday 24th November 2026

Please read the job description and person specification. If you then have any further questions about the role please contact Kerry Skipper

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) passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and embracing diversity. We are 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.

Knowledge and

Qualifications:

Safeguarding, health and safety and risk assessment procedures.

Sources of information and resources regarding issues affecting young people.

Equal opportunities.

Experience:

Experience of working with marginalised young people and /or in supported accommodation project.

Skills and Attributes:

An understanding of the work of Young Devon and a commitment to the values underpinning our work.

Willingness to take part in Equality and Diversity training / awareness-raising.

Ability to work with young people, making appropriate assessments and referrals as necessary.

Managing own workload effectively to targets and deadlines.

Motivating, supporting and encouraging young people’s achievement.

Using ICT.Record keeping.

Flexibility to meet the needs of the project as it develops.

Enthusiastic, creative, imaginative, positive.eAble to work on own as well as in a team.

Understanding of maintenance issues and ability to undertake cleaning and basic repairs.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme