Director of Services

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The Connection at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St Luke's, Islington

Full time
Permanent
Onsite working

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The Connection at St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Full Job Description

We believe that no one should have to sleep rough on London's streets, and that everyone should get the support they need to find a place to call home. We get to know every person we work with, understanding what they need to recover, helping them build on their strengths, and supporting them to find their own way home. Help us make London a city where no one sleeps rough on our streets. London's diversity is its biggest asset and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from candidates with lived experience of homelessness who we believe are an essential asset in our sector. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and welcome the opportunity to consider flexible working arrangements. About the Role The Connection at St. Martins is based in the heart of London, in the most concentrated area of rough sleeping in the UK. We have an ambitious strategy to tackle rough sleeping in central London with those people who are most persistently on the streets. Building relationships of trust with clients is at the heart of our work. To achieve this in practice, we have a fully trauma informed approach across the whole charity with psychologists embedded in our service delivery teams. Alongside running our busy day centre at Adelaide Street by Trafalgar Square, we are developing our access to accommodation. This includes a project to extend our scheme in Clapham with a new building during 2025. The extension will provide 3 additional studio flats and activity spaces. This is the first in a longer term goal to introduce more accommodation into our service portfolio so that we can house an additional 300 of our Adelaide Street clients by 2028. We are also keen to develop our links into health, through partnerships with the NHS and other treatment services. Finally, we would like to further improve our offer for women and for people with No Recourse to Public Funds. The Director of Services is a vital role for us and this is an incredibly exciting opportunity for someone who shares our passion for addressing rough sleeping. The successful candidate will be ambitious and tenacious in developing high quality services and growing our support. They must be able to build really strong relationships with clients, colleagues and stakeholders alongside bringing extensive experience from homelessness, mental health, addiction or the criminal justice sector. Our Director of Services will:

Ensure excellent service delivery which reflects our Theory of Change;
Deliver the charity's Service Quality and Development strategy;
Take forward our emerging accommodation models and our links into health services;
Provide financial management and secure resources for service delivery;
Work with the Board and the Service Quality and Development Sub Committee, sharing progress against objectives and reporting results;
Provide leadership with the staff team, particularly in services, promoting our cultural traits and behaviours in everything we do., Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.

Salary: £64,709