Seasonal - Garden Centre Assistant

4 days ago

Sudbury, United Kingdom Perrywood Garden Centre & Nurseries Ltd Full time

**Garden Centre Assistant**:
**Full time, working 4 weekdays and alternating weekends**

**Working hours Monday to Saturday 8.30 am to 5.00 pm and Sunday 9.30 am to 4.00 pm**

**About Perrywood Garden Centre & Nurseries Ltd**

Working with our retail area supporting our sales and till assistants; we are looking for motivated individuals who can follow instructions and communicate with customers. You will support our mission to offer a memorable garden centre experience; delivering wow customer service and giving employees, customers, suppliers and community a reason to smile.

**Rewards and Benefits**

In addition to the hourly wage, you will receive the following benefits:

- **Discount** - From the start of your employment you will receive 10% discount on specific items.Following a successful probation period the discount increases up to 20% discount on specific items and after one years service up to 40% discount on specific items. (some exceptionsapply)
- **Annual Christmas bonus**:

- **Part-uniform provided**:

- **Employee Assistant Programme** - a confidential personal and professional support service available to all employees and their immediate families 24/7, 365 days a year.
- **Training & development**, as required. We have an e-learning scheme called GROW, and also take part in other training with product suppliers and external trainers
- **Company sick pay** - following a successful probation period employees are entitled to 10 days paid sickness (part-time pro rata)
- **Access to our Retail Discount Scheme** - savings on retailers including Tesco, Pizza Express, M&S, Waitrose, Argos, Apple, Currys PC World, Thomas Cook and 100’s more
- **Workplace pension**:

- **Free parking**

**Key duties**
- Moving trolleys, throughout the day you will be collecting empty trolleys from the car park and returning them to the shop areas
- Assisting customers by carrying purchases to their vehicles, particularly with heavy or bulky items, helping load into cars and answering basic queries
- Moving stock from the warehouse and moving promotional materials and displays
- Maintaining the cleanliness of the garden centre and stock areas, carrying out cleaning duties and minor maintenance works

**Your capabilities**
- Good verbal communication skills, and customer service skills, confident in dealing with members of the public
- Able to follow instructions from your supervisors, and work on your own initiative
- You are able to lift, carry or move products and purchases (e.g., large compost bags, stone garden pots, garden furniture etc.)

**Requirements**:

- Working 4 weekdays and alternating weekends
- You’ll need to work bank holidays (as part of a rota with other assistants), but will be given a day’s holiday in lieu

**Perrywood is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please inform us as soon as you are able so that we can make the appropriate adjustments**

Pay: £7.49-£11.44 per hour

Expected hours: 39 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Store discount

Application question(s):

- Tell us about your interest in gardening
- Due to our rural location and limited access to public transport your own transport is preferred

**Experience**:

- Customer service: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

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