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About The Role
Are you looking for an opportunity to broaden your leadership experience and help shape homelessness services across Oxfordshire and Reading?
This opportunity is offered as 12 month fixed term contract until 16/11/2027 or secondment for internal candidates (maternity Cover).
We are looking for a dynamic and values-driven Senior Service Manager to join our West London and West England Directorate. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a diverse portfolio of homelessness services spanning outreach, prevention, housing first and housing-led support and recovery-focused provision across Oxfordshire and Reading.
Working closely with the Regional Head, you will play a central role in the leadership of services across the region. You will provide strategic and operational oversight, support the development of managers and teams, strengthen relationships with commissioners and partners, and help identify opportunities to further expand and improve our services. You will act as a key member of the regional leadership team, supporting the delivery of directorate objectives and providing leadership across the region's homelessness response.
As the Senior Service Manager you will:
Provide leadership across a portfolio of services, ensuring high-quality, safe and effective delivery.
Support, coach and develop managers and teams to achieve excellent outcomes for clients.
Work alongside the Regional Head to drive service development, innovation and continuous improvement.
Build and maintain strong relationships with commissioners, local authorities, housing providers and wider partners.
Lead on contract performance, quality assurance, compliance and financial oversight.
Contribute to new business opportunities, service growth and tender development.
Use insight, performance data and stakeholder feedback to improve services and outcomes.
Champion client involvement, equality, diversity and inclusion across all areas of service delivery.
In this post you will be required to travel across Oxfordshire and Reading to visit services, teams and partners. There will be opportunities for home working up to 3 days per week.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work alongside the Regional Head in shaping the future direction of services across Oxfordshire and Reading. You will contribute to business development activity, support service mobilisation and growth, lead on strategic partnerships, and help ensure that St Mungo's remains at the forefront of developing innovative responses to homelessness and rough sleeping in the region.
About You
Do you enjoy bringing people together, developing others and finding practical solutions to complex challenges? If this sounds like you, and you bring the below please apply:
Strong leadership potential, sound operational judgement and the ability to build effective relationships.
Experience of delivering services that support people experiencing homelessness, housing exclusion or other forms of social disadvantage.
Experience of leading and developing people in complex operational environments.
The ability to build credibility and influence with a wide range of stakeholders and partners.
Experience of managing performance, quality, resources or service improvement activity.
Strong communication, organisational and problem-solving skills.
The ability to balance day-to-day operational demands with longer term strategic priorities.
A commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and meaningful client involvement.
You may already be operating at a senior level, or you may be looking for the opportunity to take the next step in your career. We welcome applications from people who have developed their experience through leading services, projects, programmes or teams and are ready for a broader leadership role.
Above all, you will be someone who can support others to succeed, work collaboratively across organisational boundaries and help shape services that enable people to move away from homelessness and rebuild lives.
How to apply
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Closing date: 10am on 15 September 2026
Interview and assessments on: 24 September 2026
We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where everyone feels valued and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups, particularly Global Majority candidates who are underrepresented at this management level.
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 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 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 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.
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.
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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Your information will be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process, managers in the business area with a vacancy and IT staff if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.
During the assessment process, the organisation will share your data with online test providing companies and in certain situations with assessment panel members external to St Mungo’s. Otherwise, the organisation will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. The organisation will then share your data with relevant individuals and organisations (provided by yourself) to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks, Occupational Health Advisor to obtain any necessary health advice, the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks and our contract administration system to issue a contract.
Subject to the two exceptions below your data will not be processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
Your data will only be processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) in the following circumstances:
Our online test provider is based in the United States and as such data related to the online tests will be transferred outside of the EEA. In this situation data is transferred outside of the EEA on the basis that the test provider has signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. More information about the Privacy Shield Framework can be found here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome
Where we need to obtain reference information where the referee is not based within the EEA this will require basic data transfer outside of the EEA. In this situation you will have provided the relevant contact details for the referee.
For further information about data sharing please email recruitment@mungos.org to request the Applicants Data Sharing document.
How does the organisation protect data?
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For how long does the organisation keep data?
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the organisation will hold your data on file for nine months after the end of the relevant recruitment process, although we will hold a record of your name, the job you applied for and equal opportunities information for fifteen months for reporting purposes.
If your application for employment is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your personnel file and retained during your employment. The periods for which your data will be held will be provided to you in a new privacy notice.
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Our recruitment process requires that we contact the referees provided by you as part of our checks to ascertain suitability of employment. The content of the reference will not be shared without the referee's permission.
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access and obtain a copy of your data on request;
require the organisation to change incorrect or incomplete data;
require the organisation to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;
object to the processing of your data where the organisation is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing; and
ask the organisation to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override the organisation's legitimate grounds for processing data.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact St Mungo's Data Protection Officer: InfoSec@mungos.org / 020 3856 6121 / Information Security, St Mungo’s, 3 Thomas More Square, Tower Hill, London, E1W 1YW. You can make a subject access request by providing proof of your identity and outlining the scope of your request.
If you believe that the organisation has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.
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You are under no obligation to provide information for equal opportunities monitoring purposes and there are no consequences for your application if you choose not to provide such information.
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