Stock Collector and Distribution Driver

**Contract: Permanent - 35 hours per week**

**Salary: £21,840 per annum**

**Location: Required to travel across the North of England (between North Yorkshire/Manchester and the surrounding areas)**

**Closing date: Sunday 16th March 2025**
**Interview date: Friday 21st March 2025**
- Covering areas within the North of England, we’re looking for a Stock Collection and Distribution Driver with great time management and relationship building skills to join our retail team. Reporting to our Retail Administration Manager, you will be working with our charity shops to ensure donation bags are collected and delivered to their destination in a timely manner.

More about the role
- Our shops provide a vital income stream enabling us to support sick, injured, and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes. We have over 50 retail shops across England and Wales split into four geographical areas.

As a Stock Collection & Distribution Driver, you will be making a huge contribution to increase the profitability of our Blue Cross shops through the generation, collection, distribution and transfer of stock. Although your role will mean that you are on the road for the majority of your time, you will have additional responsibilities including *effective route planning*, carrying out house collections where required, vehicle checks and ensuring the van is kept clean and serviced as required as well as ad hoc PAT testing on electrical items in the shops. Travel to our main retail hub based in Hartlebury, Worcestershire is required once per week. Trust us - no two days will be the same

About you
- This role would suit a comfortable driver who can keep on top of paperwork such as journey records and mileage. No experience in this role is necessary as long as you have a full UK driving licence that allows you to drive a 3.5 tonne vehicle.
- Your days will be varied, working with different teams in different counties so being a good communicator is essential. This role really helps keep the morale in our shops so being a people person who is happy to help others is essential Manual handling training is provided to our retail staff due to the manual demand of the roles and is a mandatory requirement so we can keep you safe at work.

**Knowledge, skills, and experience**
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Punctuality and reliability

**Although not essential, it would be great if you had**:

- Experience of a driving-based role
- Awareness of PAT Testing
- Want to know more? We have attached the job description which hopefully gives you everything you need

**How to apply**

Blue Cross benefits
- Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.

In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.

Our generous benefits package includes:

- Enhanced annual leave entitlement: 30 days plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
- Health cash plan
- Life assurance
- Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
- Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
- Free access to GP via MetLife
- Recognition scheme Annual volunteer days
- Claim for professional fees

About Blue Cross
- Blue Cross is a national charity that has been helping sick, injured and homeless pets since 1897.

Every month we help thousands of pets and their people by providing veterinary care, expert behaviour advice and find homeless pets loving families. We also offer education for future generations plus pet bereavement support for those who have lost their beloved pet companion.

We love the ways that pets can make such an amazing difference to the people they live with and we offer lifelong support and advice to help that unique relationship thrive. With your support we can give back to more pets and their families who need our help.

Pets change lives. We change theirs.

**Our commitment to diversity and inclusion**

We believe that every pet should enjoy a healthy life in a happy home, and we always seek to recruit the best people who share our values and commitment so we can continue to help and support pet owners across the UK to achieve this.
- At Blue Cross, we want you to feel that you belong, without the need to hide any part of who you are.
- Diversity and inclusion at Blue Cross means creating a workplace where all people, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, nation or country of origin, disability, age, and socioeconomic backgrounds are welcome, respected, supported, and have access to equal opportunities.
- We are working hard to reflect the world we live in and the communities we serve at every level of our organisation. As mu