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Overview:
**The Role and Team**

**This position is working 40 hours per week, any 5 in 6 days including bank holidays.**

You will be working within our coldstore that runs at a chilly -20ºc. Protective clothing designed to deal with this temperature will be provided along with breaks to warm up and have a hot drink when necessary.

Along with this, a small portion of your time will be driver as a customer delivery driver.

Our drivers are the face of our business and their interaction with our customers is crucial to our success.

In this role you will be delivering frozen Wiltshire Farm Foods meals and bringing sunshine to our customers doors (no matter what the weather is doing). As such, you will enjoy meeting people and always be willing to go above and beyond what is expected.

You will need to work as part of the wider team always looking to help out the office team. We encourage movement between teams to provide flexibility, job satisfaction, personal development and knowledge of the whole business.

We’re passionate about Making a Real Difference to people’s lives with delicious and nutritious meals for everyone to enjoy.

**Who We Are**

Wiltshire Farm Foods have been cooking and delivering delicious frozen meals for over 25 years.

Part of the apetito group, an award-winning leading food producer for the health and social care sector, providing delicious, nutritious and sustainable meals for people at home or in care.

We’re proud to be a Living Wage employer and member of the Ethical Trading Initiative. We support British food and farming and operate a successful programme of waste reduction and resource efficiency across our whole business.

In addition to your salary you will receive a comprehensive training program, generous annual leave holiday entitlement with the ability to buy additional annual leave, retail discounts, free turkey (or voucher) at Christmas and much more

£10.90 per hour* + bonus + benefits
- includes temporary cost of living allowance

**Responsibilities**:

- Deliver frozen meals to our customers in a timely manner
- Picking orders within the coldstore
- Using our app to update customers deliveries
- Delivering exceptional customer service at all times
- Undertake pre-shift inspection of your van
- Drive safely, responsibly and within the law
- Clean and refuel your van as and when needed
- Contact the office with any discrepancies or delays
- Ensure customer confidentiality
- Helping the office team and picking team when required
- Reporting health and safety, stock quality and mechanical issues
- Assist the team if another member of the team is absent or on holiday

Qualifications:
**Essential**:

- Experience within a customer service-based role
- Full UK Manual Driving Licence
- Basic computer literacy including use of phone apps
- Evidence of work stability
- Basic secondary education

**Desirable**:

- Experience of multi-drop delivery role
- Experience within a care-based role
- Warehouse experience
- Health & Safety awareness

**Personal Qualities**
- Friendly, approachable and reliable
- Passionate about delivering excellent customer service
- Good attendance and timekeeping

**You must have held a UK manual driving licence for at least 3 years.**

As this role involves working with elderly and vulnerable customers, it is exempt from The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and requires an Standard DBS Disclosure.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.