Choose who represents your academic interests this year Start Voting

Register your interest now
St Mungo's
St Mungo’s has been on the frontline of homelessness for 55 years, helping people to move forward with their lives. Our frontline teams are out on the streets, every day and night, looking for the people who urgently need our help.We work directly with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, providing them with services to find paths away from the homelessness, for good. We also…
Description

What we do?

Our mission is to house, support and care for vulnerable people in London who either have been, or at risk of sleeping rough and homelessness. Our aim is to make sure that homeless and vulnerable people can look forward with optimism and can contribute to the quality of life.

As a First Response Volunteer, you will help find those rough sleeping quicker, and enable Outreach workers to spend more time supporting those found to move away from the streets and get connected to other local services. 

First Responders play a crucial role to ensure people sleeping rough receive vital support. This is not a client-facing role and therefore is well suited to somebody looking for their first role in the homelessness sector. However, we do also offer development opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge about rough sleeping for those interested.

What you will get from us?

-Regular support from the First Response team.
-Reimbursed volunteering expenses.
-New skills and experience within the largest homelessness services provider
-Opportunity to become an Enhanced Volunteer after 3 months regular volunteering – engaging with found referrals and passing on information gathered to the Outreach worker
-Professional references after 3 months volunteering.
-A dedicated Volunteer Services team to support your volunteering.
-Access to our Volunteer Development Pathway to help you to develop the skills and experience to support your progression.

Duties

In this role, you will be supporting us with all or some of the following tasks:

  • Responding to StreetLink referrals including those from members of the public and self-referrals.
  • Working with a partner volunteer to locate referrals and identify those who are rough sleeping. 
  • Passing information about referrals to the Outreach team to follow up on – they will help the person find accommodation and link them into non-accommodation-based support for example around physical or mental health. 
  • Adhering to St Mungo’s Policies and Procedures at all times.
  • At this stage you will not be directly interacting with those rough sleeping, although the role does offer development pathways.
Who will the volunteers be working with?
Staff.
Fellow Volunteers.
Training
Our First Response volunteer training as well as access to further learning and development opportunities from our specialised Volunteer Services team.

Time commitment

Time commitment: 1 four hour shift per month

Shift times include:Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays 8pm-12am, Saturdays 6am-10am
Application deadline

Causes

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.