At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide excellent customer service and support fundraising efforts in a vibrant retail environment.
- Company: Join the world's leading cancer charity, making a real difference in people's lives.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible leave, discounts, and personal development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working hours on Saturdays with a supportive team culture.
- Why this job: Be part of a meaningful mission while gaining valuable retail experience.
- Qualifications: Customer service experience and strong communication skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 12.71 - 12.71 £ per hour.
Millions of bargain-hunters. Endless pre-loved items. One meaningful purpose.
- Retail Store Assistant £12.71 per hour plus benefits
- Reports to: Shop manager
- Department: Trading
- Working hours: Part time 7.5 hours per week (Saturdays only)
- External Closing date: 30 August 2026 23:55
Internal: In line with organisational policy this role will remain open for internal applications until: 30 August 2026 23:55
The internal title for this role is Shop Assistant.
Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
What will I be doing?
- Providing excellent customer and supporter service.
- Working as an integral part of the shop team to achieve ambitious sales and fundraising targets.
- Assisting with maintaining shop standards including visual presentation, safeguarding compliance and health and safety.
- Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues.
- Supporting fundraising events for your store to achieve fundraising targets.
- Taking keyholder responsibility as required (training provided).
- There will be a varied amount of manual handling and physical activity required within the day-to-day duties of the role.
What are you looking for?
- An understanding of what makes great customer service.
- Experience of working in a busy customer service environment.
- The ability to manage your own workload and work independently when required.
- The ability to work well in a team.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Flexibility, our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis.
- Whilst a level of flexibility is needed to meet the needs of the business, we don’t forget that you have a life outside of work too.
What will I gain?
We make sure you are supported by a generous salary and benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.
Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.
- substantial retirement plan
- generous and flexible leave allowance
- discounts on anything from travel to technology
- gym membership
- and much more
Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.
Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work.
We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.
We’re the world’s leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research.
We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people’s day-to-day lives through our research, influence and information.
We are beating cancer – step by step, day by day.
Our work means that people with cancer live better lives through earlier diagnosis and kinder, more effective treatments.
Find a purposeful career that will empower you to grow and collaborate with like-minded experts.
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Retail Saturday Assistant (Liphook) employer: Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Stratford, London, where you can make a meaningful impact on health partnerships. With a strong emphasis on employee well-being, we provide flexible working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package that supports a healthy work/life balance, alongside ample opportunities for professional growth and development within the organisation.
