Head of Specialist Rough Sleeping Services
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Job Summary
Are you motivated to take on a leadership opportunity where you will influence strategy shape specialist practice and improve outcomes for people sleeping rough
We are looking for a dynamic valuesdriven leader to join our Pan London Rough Sleeping teams as Head of Specialist Rough Sleeping Services.
This vital role is central to our work with people facing multiple and overlapping barriers to ending homelessness particularly migrant and nonUK national rough sleepers who need specialist advice and support and gives the opportunity to provide strategic and operational leadership across a portfolio of specialist services currently including MAPS the Roma Rough Sleeping Team London Navigators and StreetLink London.
As Head of Specialist Rough Sleeping Services you will set direction drive quality and innovation and ensure our services deliver meaningful recovery outcomes.
You will offer inspiring matrix leadership across St Mungos sharing expertise and strategic oversight to improve practice with some of the most marginalised people experiencing homelessness.
You will act as a strong external facing advocate building strong relationships with commissioners funders and partners and lead on business development contract management and service growth to ensure our services remain high quality sustainable and aligned with St Mungos mission.
About you
We are looking for someone who can bring a combination of strong leadership capability commercial awareness and deep commitment to social justice. If you bring the below we encourage you to apply:
- You will be an experienced leader with a track record of managing services for people experiencing homelessness migrants or other vulnerable groups and of guiding teams through change in complex environments.
- You will be capable of balancing strategic thinking with operational delivery ensuring services are high quality compliant financially robust and continuously improving.
- You can demonstrate a strong knowledge of the policy and practice landscape affecting migrant and advice services alongside health and social care hostels supported housing and statutory and voluntary sector provision.
- You will show clear understanding of the needs of St Mungos client groups including nonUK nationals people with substance use and mental health needs young people and people with experience of the criminal justice system.
- Crucially you will lead with integrity and compassion championing client involvement embedding equality diversity and inclusion into all aspects of service delivery and supporting managers and teams to perform at their best.
We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where everyone feels valued. We particularly welcome applications from Global Majority candidates who are currently underrepresented at this level within our organisation.
How to apply
To view the full job description and guidance on completing your application please click on the document tab on the advert page on our website.
When youre ready to apply click the Apply now button to begin your online application.
Closing date: 10am on 21 May 2026
Interviews and assessments: 2 and 3 June 2026
Where youll be working
In this role you will work flexibly for at least 2 days per week onsite from our Central Office in London or other various services. This allows for in person collaboration team building line management and other relationship building opportunities. We support a flexible approach to work with opportunities for agile working for the rest of your week; from home or other St Mungos London or regional locations.
While our Central Office is currently based in Tower Hill London we plan to relocate in the summer of 2026 to a new space in Farringdon London.
About Us
Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years we have been on the ground every day and every night supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28000 people each year and our work means that more than 2700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.
What We Offer
We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity diversity and inclusion improves the health wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity inclusion and wellbeing are prioritisedwe are happier healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients.
Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience:
- A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ Womens Action Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks.
- Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
- A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
- Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff unconscious bias training for managers and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
- In recognition of the importance of transparency we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website.
Want to find out more Click here to visit our Equity Diversity & Inclusion page.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky but with family friendly policies flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them.
These include:
- Agile working model for suitable roles.
- Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
- 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years service.
- Family friendly leave policies including - maternity adoption and parental leave. Carers leave and fertility treatment leave.
- Financial wellbeing platform offering loans advances and saving options.
- Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
- Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app 24/7 GP appointments health checks and nutrition advice.
- Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
- Discount vouchers including gym retail food & drink travel electricals and more.
Want to find out more Want to find out moreClick here to visit our Work For Us page.
At St Mungos we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. Thats why we have a robust induction training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungos.
These include:
- Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
- Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
- Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.
A DBS disclosure check is a requirement for this post and will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungos current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.
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About Company
St Mungo's is a leading UK homelessness charity supporting over 3,150 people every night. Help us end homelessness and rebuild lives.
