At a Glance
- Tasks: Oversee shop operations, support volunteers, and assist with sales and fundraising.
- Company: Join a meaningful charity making a difference in the community.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible leave, discounts, and wellbeing support.
- Other info: Flexible hours on Sundays with opportunities for personal development.
- Why this job: Be part of a vibrant team while helping others and gaining valuable experience.
- Qualifications: Great customer service skills and adaptability in a lively environment.
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: Sunday - 6 hours per week
- External: 23rd August 2026 23:55
Internal: In line with organisational policy this role will remain open for internal applications until: 23rd August 2026 23:55
What will I be doing?
- Overseeing the running of the shop on a Sunday. This includes taking keyholder responsibility (training provided) and supporting a talented and diverse team of volunteers.
- Assisting the wider shop team in achieving sales and fundraising targets.
- Reviewing and processing donated goods and new stock .
- C oming up with creative ideas to help generate new income, with guidance from the Shop Manager.
- Using your customer service skills to make sure our customers and supporters feel welcome and appreciated.
- Maintaining shop standards regarding safeguarding, compliance and health and safety.
- 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 ?
- A working knowledge of what makes great customer service.
- Experience of working in a lively and vibrant environment.
- Adaptability in changing situations, including being able to work effectively independently and as part of a team.
- Commercial awareness.
- The ability to create relationships and communicate well.
- Flexibility, o ur 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?
- W e make sure you are supported by a generous 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.
- Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.
- Our vision
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.
Please contact recruitment@cancer. org. uk or 0 20 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
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.
Eligibility and Compliance
Owing to the nature of this position, any offer of employment for this role will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.
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.
Contact
For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact us at recruitment@cancer. org. uk .
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