Young Person's Housing Support Worker (Days)

Young Devon; Exeter; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A charity organization is seeking a motivated individual to join their Supported Housing team in Exeter. This role involves working with young people (16-25) to provide tailored support, assist with finances, and help access education and employment opportunities. The candidate must have a creative approach and strong communication skills. A commitment to safeguarding young individuals is essential, as well as a passion for inclusive support.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Welcoming workplace culture

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people aged 16-25.
• Understanding of holistic support services.
• Ability to adapt communication styles.

Responsibilities

• Lone working with young people to provide support.
• Managing health and safety checks of buildings.
• Assisting with accessing education and training.

Skills

Creativity in support approaches

Excellent communication skills

Ability to manage finances

Knowledge of benefits

Experience working with young people

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, conscientious person to join our Supported Housing team in our Exeter projects.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Disability Confident and Safeguarding

Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .

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.