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Young Devon; Ivybridge; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

You will join Young Devon in Ivybridge as a Sleep in Housing Support Worker, providing night-time support for young people aged 16–25. The role includes two sleep-in shifts per week (Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm–9:30am) and a permanent contract based in Ivybridge.

The job involves lone working with vulnerable young people, helping with benefits, budgeting, health and wellbeing, housing maintenance, and sign-posting for additional needs.

Qualifications

• Experience with housing or youth support desirable.
• Ability to work independently and lone-work.
• Good communication and sign-posting skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide a holistic, person-centred support for young people.
• Manage finances, benefits, health and wellbeing.
• Conduct health and safety checks in buildings.
• Respond to on-call support as needed.

Job description

Young Person’s Housing Support Worker - Sleep in (Job Ref 26-64)

Company: Young Devon Salary: from £13,757.12 a year Hours: Part-time Location: Ivybridge Working pattern: On-site Job type: Permanent Posting date: 30 Sept 2026 Closing date: 22 Oct 2026

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

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

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.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Summary

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

If you would like an informal discussion, or arrange to visit the project, please contact:

Katherine Weedall (Supported Housing Area Manager, South) on 01752 680061 or 07973 599920

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.