New Goods Sales Assistant

at  Ashgate Hospice

ABOUT YOU:

You will be an integral member of the retail team at Hasland furniture store. You will be responsible for ensuring the shop is safe, clean and well presented, making sure our customers have a great experience.

Skills and experience required:

• Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to adapt to different customer challenges
• Ability to multi task and manage conflicting priorities and targets.
• Experience within visual merchandising

PROPOSED INTERVIEW DATE: TBC

Any candidate who identifies themselves as disabled will be shortlisted if they meet the essential criteria for the role. Essential criteria can be found in the job description and person specification for the role. If you require any accessibility adjustments, please contact a member of the HR team at hr@ashgatehospice.org.uk or by calling 01246 568801
If successful, you will be required to have a DBS check carried as part of the conditional pre-employment checks. For more information, please refer to the candidate assistant notes.
As a healthcare provider, it is very important to us that our staff have the annual flu jab and are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. It is our expectation that all of our staff will have the vaccinations unless there are strong compelling reasons why not. We believe having the vaccination not only protects you but also helps us to keep our patients, staff and visitors safe.

Hours: 15 hours per week, usually worked 2 days’ over 7, to include weekends and bank holidays.
Our retail outlets provide 29% of much-needed income to the hospice. This is vital to be able to provide care to the people of North Derbyshire. The hospice has seventeen retail shops, one furniture warehouse, one donation centre, two clearance shops and two coffee shops. We also have an online eBay/Amazon platform and an online furniture store. It’s a big operation!
We are looking for a New Goods Sales Assistant to join our Hasland retail team.
This job role is hard work, enormous fun, hugely satisfying and very fascinating. This is a job that doesn’t have that Monday morning feeling, and you will go home feeling happy that you did a great job for an amazing charity! Those who work for Ashgate Hospice are very proud to do so. If you think that you would like to be a part of our charity, then please apply.

The main responsibilities include:

• To implement any promotion in the shop as directed.
• To support the training, development and motivation of a team of staff and volunteers.
• Maintain high standards of shop display and cleanliness.
• Encourage public donations and manage daily stock tasks (sorting, pricing, rotating)
• Implement shop promotions as instructed.
• Supervise volunteers, including recruitment, training, and support.
• Handle cash, complete administrative paperwork, and ensure financial procedures are followed.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety policies and report any issues, including suspected theft.

To get full details on what the role includes please read the attached Job Description, call the recruiting manager for an informal chat and come and visit us.