Shop Assistant

7 months ago

Ripon, United Kingdom North Yorkshire Hospice Care Full time

**Shop Assistant**

**£8,149.79 per annum (£20,374.49 FTE)**

**15 hours per week (2 days over 7 including weekends)**

**Permanent**

**Ripon Shop Based**

Bring your passion for fashion and retail experience to join our Saint Michael’s Hospice retail team as a Shop Assistant. Based at our Ripon Shop, you will support the Shop Manager in maintaining a top-quality sales culture, developing shop plans, and enhancing the customer service experience.

Providing encouragement and support for the team of volunteers, you will help build a welcoming atmosphere and fuel a committed customer base to boost shop growth. You will be able to demonstrate a keen eye for merchandising, helping pre-loved goods find new homes. You will aim to reach key performance indicators, using your creativity to develop strategies and ways to meet them. In the absence of the Shop Manager, you will take charge of day-to-day operations - maintaining standards across all aspects of the shop, as well as budget management.

**Benefits include: -**
- 35 days holiday per year (including Bank Holidays, pro-rata).
- Comprehensive Induction Programme.
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 8%
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to staff support.
- Free group life assurance.
- Free DBS check.
- Free car parking and close to bus and train stations.

You will be joining an organisation that is driven, caring, and responsive and you will be playing an important role in enabling us to provide our highly valued services to the people of Harrogate, Hambleton, and Richmondshire Districts.

At North Yorkshire Hospice Care we believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Every member of our organisation has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all who encounter our services. We aim to keep people safe and to operate our services in a way that protects them; to make reporting concerns as easy as possible and respond quickly; to listen to all worries and work in partnership with individuals and agencies. All our staff and volunteers receive annual training on both adults and children/young people’s safeguarding.

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a registered charity in England and Wales (518905) with a family of services operating as Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’, Saint Michael’s Hospice, and Talking Spaces. North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (2121179).

**Shop Assistant**

**Job Purpose**

To support the shop team to drive forward a top selling sales culture both on the shop floor and using online selling platforms, to ensure required targets are achieved, and customers and donors receive the highest standards of customer service.

**Key Tasks**

1. Working with the Shop team to develop a short to medium term shop plan to include targets and key performance indicators, customer profile and engagement, volunteer support, North Yorkshire Hospice Care’s brand recognition and new ideas and promotions to increase sales.

2. To help ensure that the shop provides exceptional standards of customer service and a positive shopping experience, supporting all members of the shop team to meet the same standard. To strive to make each customer and donor interaction the best it can be to enhance customer relationships, increase customer loyalty and accelarate shop growth.

3. Support in achieving the shop costs and sales budget and proactively develop and implement plans to recover any shortfall so that targets are maintained throughout the year.

4. To assist in regular shop visits with the Shop Manager and Retail Area Manager to discuss areas such as shop plan progress, shop performance including key KPIs, ASP, sales space analysis, and profit, team, training, operational issues, shop design and layout, new ideas and health and safety.

5. Support with the day to day operation of the retail store ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to, that the required standards for health and safety and trading standards are met and that excellent standards in housekeeping and merchandising are maintained.

6. To assist in the security, maintenance and cleaning of the shop premises, reporting any faults and damage promptly for action. To have an understanding of the shop lease terms in respect of repairs and maintenance to be able to contribute to refurbishment planning.

7. To support the whole shop team in maximising the use of the EPOS system and promotion of Gift aid. To use the information from EPOS system to support and evidence performance management, team management and customer profiling for the shop. To be accountable for the shop takings, ensuring that correct records are maintained and provided to the Finance Team in line with procedures.

8. To prepare donated goods for display, maintaining an attractive display to maximise the turnover of stock. To ensure that items are marketed to attract

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