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Deputy Manager - Outreach Response

Location Tower Hamlets
Salary £41,508 - £44,897 pa
Permanent/Full time/37.5 hours per week
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This is a Permanent, Full time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Are you passionate about supporting our clients on their journey to recovery in Tower Hamlets?

Join our dynamic and supportive team as a Deputy Manager in the Rough Sleeping Team, where you will play a pivotal role in tackling homelessness and supporting people who are experiencing rough sleeping to rebuild their lives. This is a unique opportunity to work with a forward-thinking local authority and a committed group of partners to bring about meaningful change in one of London’s most diverse and vibrant boroughs.

THSORT’s structure compromises of a Service Manager, 2 Deputy Managers, 6 Outreach Workers (some with specialist lead roles), 2 Navigators, Complex Needs Worker and an Information and Referrals worker. We support people who are rough sleeping and/or living on the streets of Tower Hamlets borough.

Your duties
As a Deputy Manager, you will be responsible for line-managing a dedicated team of outreach workers and navigators, ensuring they deliver high-quality services to individuals experiencing rough sleeping. Your leadership will be vital in driving operational effectiveness and supporting the team to engage with people who need help most.

You will work closely with local authority partners, statutory and voluntary services, and key stakeholders to ensure an integrated, person-centred approach to tackling rough sleeping. You will also contribute to the development and delivery of service strategies, bringing your expertise to enhance the partnership working ethos that is key to Tower Hamlets’ approach.

Your role will be essential in providing strategic oversight, offering guidance, and ensuring that your team operates in a safe, effective, and compassionate manner.

Work hours are Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm (Flexibility might be required at times to work outside these hours)

About you
This exciting role will suit someone with experience of communicating, liaising and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders, we encourage you to apply if you have below skills and abilities:

  • Experience of line managing and motivating a frontline team, outreach, or related service.
  • An understanding of rough sleeping and experience in partnership working, with the ability to engage with multiple stakeholders and community partners.
  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
  • Above all we are looking for inspirational, committed individuals who have a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives.

Desirable, but not essential:

  • Full UK Driver’s License

We’d always like to hear from people who want to help transform lives. Not sure if you have the skills and experience you need for the role? Apply and we’ll let you know!

St Mungo's are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from all under-represented groups.

How to apply

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document’ tab on the advert page on our website.

When you're ready to apply click the ‘Apply Now’ Button to start your online application form.

Closing date: 10 am on 7th May 2025

Interview and assessments on: 19th May 2025

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 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.

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 prioritised, we 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 Equality, 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 more? Click here to visit our Work For Us page. 

At St Mungo’s 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. That’s why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo’s.  

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 Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

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