Clothing Assistant in Chesterfield

Join our team as a Clothing Sales Assistant and make a difference! Do you want a job where you can help others and have a positive impact on your community? Then we’ve got the perfect role for you. Our retail outlets are a vital part of what we do, generating essential income that directly supports the hospice. Every item sold in our shops or donated to us helps fund the compassionate end-of-life care we provide.

With 15 retail shops across North Derbyshire, a dedicated Furniture Store, Donation Centre, two bustling Clearance Shops, and two welcoming Coffee Shops, our retail presence continues to grow. We also operate two successful eBay platforms - one for clothing and one for general goods - alongside a fully online furniture shop. Our shops not only raise vital funds, but also create social value by offering volunteering opportunities, affordable goods, and a welcoming space for people in our local communities. It’s a dynamic, fast-paced operation that’s making a real difference every day!

You will be joining a dedicated and values driven team of staff and volunteers who deliver retail excellence every day!

About the role

• Hours: 12 hours per week usually worked 3 out of 7 days to include Bank holidays and weekends 4 hours per day.
• You will be an integral member of the retail team at Hasland Furniture store.
• You’ll help drive the day-to-day success of our clothing section by managing stock, supporting sales, delivering great customer service, and keeping the section well presented, organised, and welcoming.
• You’ll also support volunteers and staff, handle key admin tasks, and help ensure the store runs smoothly and efficiently.

What you’ll bring:

Here’s what we’re looking for: Strong people and customer service skills, with the ability to communicate effectively, adapt to different situations, manage multiple priorities, use MS Office confidently, and demonstrate behaviours aligned with Hospice values.

About Ashgate:

Ashgate Hospice is a registered charity that provides compassionate, specialist palliative and end of life care, free of charge, to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families across North Derbyshire. Our values are at the heart of everything we do at Ashgate. They are grounded in our commitment to being the best we can be for our patients and the people who are important to them, and for each other. We are compassionate. We are a team. We are respectful, open and inclusive.

At Ashgate, you are part of a genuine and warm team that shares a desire to deliver great experiences to our customers. We celebrate Inclusion and equality; we advocate collaboration and transparency and believe our teams should bring their true selves to work. We’re committed to providing a happy, safe and supportive environment for all our people which is why nearly 4 out of 5 of our staff would recommend us as a place to work.

We recognise the need to support our employees’ well-being including their work-life balance which is why we are open to and encourage flexible working arrangements, including job-sharing.

As a valued member of the team, you will have a wide range of training and development available to support your own personal, professional development, opening doors to new career pathways. For our current staff, these pathways have included becoming a Shop Manager and Cluster Support Co-ordinator.

Some of our current benefits include:

• A highly compassionate and supportive working environment
• A wide range of initiatives to support your wellbeing, and the time out to practice self-care
• Generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy and sell annual leave annually.
• A progressive approach to flexible working to help meet your and our needs
• Cycle to Work and Tech Benefit
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes
• A Health Cash Plan includes free annual eye tests, dental checks and money back for a range of treatments and therapies
• Access to a free, confidential Employee Assistance Program
• Access to Rewards, offering discounts from hundreds of retailers
• Pension scheme with 7% employer contribution
• Life assurance scheme
• Total commitment to your learning and development

What next:

If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Nicola Mann via email Nicola.mann@ashgatehospice.org.uk. Please note we only accept applications via the ‘Apply now’ button on our website. Please do not send your application to HR or the recruiting manager.

Any candidate who identifies themselves as disabled will be shortlisted if they meet the essential criteria for the role. Essential criteria can be found in the job description and person specification for the role. If you require any accessibility adjustments, please contact a member of the HR team at hr@ashgatehospice.org.uk or by calling 01246 568801.

If successful, you will be required to have a DBS check carried as part of the conditional pre-employment checks. As a healthcare provider, it is very important to us that our staff have the annual flu jab and are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. It is our expectation that all of our staff will have the vaccinations unless there are strong compelling reasons why not.

Support available for candidates who identify themselves as disabled. You may wish to complete and share with us your health adjustment passport so that we are aware what support and/or reasonable adjustments you may require. Even if you choose not to share this with us, we encourage applicants to consider completing their passport for their own benefit.