Brent, London

12 Months Fixed-term contract

37.5hrs per week

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions.

This exciting and challenging role is located within St Mungo’s Outreach service in Brent. The Street Outreach Team operates across the entire borough of Brent providing an assertive street outreach service to those sleeping on the streets. This work is carried out within a multi-agency partnership framework and through targeted street outreach.

As the post-holder, you will be working to reduce rough sleeping on the streets to as near to zero as possible. You will also work towards reducing anti-social behaviour and hotspots associated with rough sleeping, as well as support clients off the streets and enable them to reach their life goals.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual, who has experience working with either rough sleepers, hard to reach groups and/or those with multiple and complex needs. You will also have an ability to both lone and team work and to initiate and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, clients, the community, the police and other external agencies.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and initiatives to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. We are also committed to providing our staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities; in support of their personal and professional development

If you believe that you have what we are looking for, and have an interest in working for a charity which makes a real difference to the lives of people who are homeless, we would love to hear from you.

Flexibility is required as you will be working outreach shifts at unsocial hours.

To find out more and apply please go to www.mungos.org/current_vacancies

Closing date: 10.00am, 28th September 2017
Interviews and assessments on:  11th October 2017

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2017, we are also proud to have been awarded BITC 2017 Race Equality Award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.