Sunday Sales and Warehouse Assistant

St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Sunday Sales and Warehouse Assistant to join the team in our **Taunton Furniture Store**. You will join us on a part time, permanent basis, working 6.5 hours per week on Sundays, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £4,067.24 per annum.

You won’t just be joining a fantastic team - you’ll **be part of a welcoming, community minded charity**. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.

**What can you expect to be doing?**

Joining the team in Taunton, you will support the shop manager and deputy in the running of our Hospice Furniture Shop.

Your day to day work will involve:

- Delivering friendly and approachable customer service
- Sorting and lifting donated goods, including furniture.
- Merchandising and creating eye-catching shop displays
- Following till and cash handling procedures
- Helping to support and motivate a team of shop volunteers

This is a part time role working 6.5 hours a week on Sundays. There may occasionally be a need to work additional hours to cover staff leave as required.

**What will you be good at?**

We offer ongoing training and guidance to support you in your new role, but it will really help if you have:

- Demonstrable high standards of customer service
- Good communication skills.

Previous experience in a retail environment is desirable but not essential as a full induction and training programme will be provided. So, whether you are looking to take your first step into a Retail role or already have experience, we would love to hear from you.

This role is a physically demanding position within a busy retail environment which includes the lifting of donated goods.

**Our Core Competencies**
- **Self-awareness** - Understanding and being aware of yourself and how to react and interact with others
- **Leading in your area** - Regardless of management position, we all lead and take responsibility in our area of work
- **Working with others** - People working together to achieve team and organisational goals and respecting others
- **Outcomes and results** - Organising ourselves to get the job done, delivering a high-quality service, and being accountable for the outcomes

**Benefits**
- **Holiday entitlement**
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
- Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- **Pension scheme**
- NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
- Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contribution
- **Life assurance cover** - 2x salary
- **Health Cash Plans** - help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits
- **Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering**:

- Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
- Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
- Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Counselling and support
- Legal, financial, and medical information and advice
- **Blue Light Card** - Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35%
- **Enhanced maternity/paternity leave**:

- **Excellent learning and development opportunities**:

- **Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton**:

- **Volunteering and fundraising opportunities**
- Eligibility criteria applies

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We cant wait to hear from you

**Closing date**: 1st July