Sunday Sales Assistant

at  Ashgate Hospice

ABOUT YOU:

You will be an integral member of the Retail Team at the Bakewell Shop. 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.
• Knowledge of cash handling/Banking protocol

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: 7.5 hours per week worked on a Sunday
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 17 retail shops, one furniture warehouse, a 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 Retail Sales Assistant to join our Retail Team.
The Retail Sales assistant will support the Retail Manager and team with all aspects of running of the shop, situated in Bakewell town center. The role will involve managing volunteers, stock control, preparing products as well as the training of volunteers.
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 ensure that the high standard of service to customers that is expected by the Ashgate Hospice shops is maintained at all times.
• To actively support, any fundraising promotions as directed by Ashgate Hospice or your Manager.
• To implement any promotion in the shop as directed.
• To support the training, development and motivation of a team of staff and volunteers.

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.