Assistant Support Worker

Empowering

Inclusive

Committed

Location Hammersmith & Fulham

Salary £30,703 - £31,507 pa

Permanent/Full time/37.5 hours per week

This is a Permanent, Full time vacancy that will close in 13 days at 10:00 BST.

About The Role

Are you passionate about making a lasting difference to the lives of vulnerable adults?

We are currently looking for an Assistant Support Worker (known internally as Duty Worker) to join our Hammersmith & Fulham pathway. You will be based at the Coninghams; a 31 bed complex needs project.

The Coninghams is a fast‑paced service grounded in the Recovery Model and delivered within a psychologically informed environment. We support vulnerable people to manage and recover from a wide range of needs, including substance use, mental and physical health challenges, criminal justice involvement, budgeting, tenancy sustainment, and daily living skills.

In the pivotal role of Duty Worker, you will work on four weekly shift based pattern to support with the day to day running of the project including but not limited to overseeing set weekly H&S tasks, managing repairs, leading on and planning day to day appointments, at The Coninghams we offer our duty workers the opportunity to lead in a clients support and or to co-keywork.

You will often be the first person that our clients, contractors and visitors come into contact with, you will work closely with project workers, night staff, manager and external professionals to ensure the effective day to day running of the project.

About you

To thrive in this role you will be;

• Adaptable to a fast-paced environment while contributing to and drawing strength from a supportive team of experienced colleagues.
• Friendly, proactive and creative.
• Passionate and committed to the overall aims and objectives of the Rough Sleeping services.
• Competent in IT systems such as emails and Microsoft 365.

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: 10am on 6 May 2026

Interview and assessments on: TBC

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.

Want to find out more? Click here to visit our .

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.

Documents

Alternatively, please sign in with...

Published

a day ago

Closing

in 13 days

{Expiry}