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Activities & Life Skills Worker in Supported Accommodation (Job Ref 25-62)

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Posting date: 19 December 2025
Salary: £25,769.57 per year, pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 18 January 2026
Location: Plymouth PL1
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Young Devon
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 25-62

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

Activities & Life Skills Worker - Supported Accommodation (Job Ref 25-62)

Based in Plymouth.

Salary - £25,769.57 per annum pro rata.

Permanent contract - 22 hours per week - Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Plymouth House is a new accommodation opportunity providing a safe space for young people to engage in our EMOTE Programme (Enter Meaningful Occupation, Training & Employment) and develop the skills to live independently.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Youth Worker to join our Team at Plymouth House. You will play a crucial role in building trusted relationships, developing & delivering programme of activities to empower young people to build life skills and move into employment.

If you have the skills, ability and passion we would love to hear from you.

For more information please read through the job description and person specification. If you then have any further questions about the role please contact Katherine Weedall on mobile 07973 599920 or email Katherine.weedall@youngdevon.org

For an application pack and job description please contact our HR Department on hr@youngdevon.org

Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Monday 26th January 2026.
Interviews: Monday 2nd February 2026.

What can we offer? Young Devon provides generous holiday entitlement from day one, not to mention our welcoming, kind and passionate workplace culture. Access to training and career development opportunities.

Young Devon is a youth work charity (1057949) committed to embracing diversity. We are an equal opportunities employer and particularly welcome applicants from areas under-represented within our workforce.

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.

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