Fixed Term opportunity until 31st Jan 2027
Are you looking for an opportunity where your skills will make a difference in helping to end homelessness and rebuild lives?
No Second Night Out provides a rapid response service, intervening to ensure no one needs to sleep rough. We are currently looking for a Deputy Manager to join our team and support our South Assessment Hub.
Our Assessment Hub is where rough sleepers are provided with a safe space from the streets. Clients in our service will have a range of support needs which include low to high levels of mental health and substance misuse, immigration support needs and other complex issues. While here we provide high level case work to rapidly find suitable move-on accommodation for our clients to end their homelessness.
This role will best suit someone who can adapt to a fast paced environment while contributing to and drawing strength from a supportive team of experienced colleagues.
In the pivotal role of Deputy Manager, you will work flexibly to support clients where they need us the most:
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Work closely with the service manager to ensure the effective day to day running of the service and performance against our service targets.
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Manage Health and Safety and building safety for the service, including completing and monitoring risk assessments, ensuring day-to-day concerns are resolved quickly and leading on building repairs.
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Provide supportive supervision and line management to Assessment and Reconnection Workers, and other team members including night workers and hub assistants; providing guidance on complex cases.
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Build and maintain strong relationships, and work in partnership with local authorities, accommodation services and other relevant agencies to ensure clients move on from the service into the appropriate accommodation with the correct support in place.
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Work flexibly to support the rough sleeping service, and our clients when they need us the most.
About you
We are looking for proactive and creative individuals with:
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Experience of working with vulnerable people and supporting a service delivery team.
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The ability to negotiate with a wide range of internal and external partners and build positive relationships.
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Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise your own time and workload to meet a number of different and competing tasks in a sometimes pressurised environment.
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Knowledge and understanding of the housing and support needs of rough sleepers.
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Experience of motivating and empowering staff and/or volunteers to take responsibility for delivering a high quality service to a vulnerable client group.
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Above all we are looking for passionate people who are committed to the overall aims and objectives of the Rough Sleeping services
How to Apply
Please download the job description and person specification from the advert page.
When you're ready to apply you can click the ‘Apply Now’ Button to start your online application form.
Closing Date: 10.00 am, 8th July 2026
Interview and assessment date: 21st / 22nd July 2026
St Mungo's are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from all under-represented groups.
Please note: This role is eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have existing and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment.
Successful candidates will be required to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 – 2020 we supported 32,800 people across all of our services. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.
3 Thomas More Square, Tower Hill, London, E1W 1YW
Telephone: 02038566000
