Shop Cover Manager

The salary for this role is £23,581.58 and also includes a £1,750 allowance and £5,000 car allowance.\\n\\nLocation – Supporting Scope shops based in the London area. It is therefore essential that you can travel within this geographical area.\\n\\nWe are looking to appoint a Shop Cover Manager (known internally as Divisional Support Lead) supporting Scope shops in the London area. These include: Acton, Basildon Bexleyheath, Camberwell, Camden, Clapham Junction, Dartford, Fulham, Ruislip, Surbiton, Tolworth, Walthamstow and Woolwich.\\n\\nThis is an exciting role working closely with the fantastic shop teams to enable our shops to trade when there is absence and maintaining and improving the running of our shops day to day and enable us to maximise sales and profit.\\n\\nOur retail roles are full of variety, and every day is different!

From generating and processing stock to designing an eye-catching window display or recruiting and training our wonderful volunteer team you’ll find every day challenging but extremely rewarding. You will have relevant experience in retail but a great attitude and willingness to learn is just as important.\\n\\nAbout you\\n\\nAs Divisional Support Lead you’ll be passionate about retail and have a love of fashion with experience of running a shop, or you’ll be looking for a management role as the next step in your career and be comfortable working closely various shop teams.\\n\\nTo be successful in this role\\n\\n * \\n\\n Proven experience in a customer-facing role, with responsibility for supervising or leading a team within retail or other service-based environments\\n\\n * \\n\\n Experience working in a target-driven environment, with a focus on achieving sales or performance goals\\n\\n * \\n\\n Experience of working in a fast paced environment\\n\\n * \\n\\n provide support and motivate a diverse team of paid employees and volunteers.\\n\\n * \\n\\n A team player who is flexible and has a strong work ethic\\n\\n * \\n\\n Strong communication and interpersonal skills\\n\\n * \\n\\n IT literacy and numeracy skills\\n\\nPlease make sure you explain in your application, with examples, how you can meet these important skills.\\n\\nWe ask you to show an appreciation of Scope’s values and our ambition of an equal future for disabled people.\\n\\nWe welcome applications from people with lived experience of disability and from all backgrounds.\\n\\nWe also ask you to share how you support Scope’s values and contribute to our goal of creating a fair and equal future for disabled people.\\n\\nWorking in Our Shops\\n\\nOur shops are the face of our retail brand, run by dedicated, creative, and passionate teams. We focus on sustainable fashion, engage with local communities, and lead volunteers to deliver a great experience for colleagues and customers.

Funds raised support Scope’s mission of achieving equality for disabled people and their families.\\n\\nShop Hours\\n\\nScope shops are open every day. Some weekend and Bank Holiday cover is needed.\\n\\nFull-time: 35 hours per week, five days out of seven\\n\\nPart-time: Weekly hours on a seven-day rota\\n\\nAdditional Information\\n\\nIn line with UK legislation, we are only able to accept applications from individuals aged 18 or over. This is because the role may involve working alone in the shop at times.\\n\\nYou must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy.

Scope is not able to offer visa sponsorship.\\n\\nAnonymised applications\\n\\nWe use an anonymised shortlisting process as part of our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. All advertised vacancies require a CV and the completion of a short application form.\\n\\nOur values\\n\\nPioneering, Courageous, Connected, Open, Fair.\\n\\nWe trust each other and give colleagues freedom to be creative, push boundaries, and change minds.\\n\\nOur promise to disabled people\\n\\nWe are proud to be a charity that stands for disability equality. We welcome applications from disabled people and anyone with an impairment, condition, or access need.

We want our team to reflect the communities we serve.\\n\\nAs a Disability Confident Leader, we promise to offer an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential requirements for the job. To do this, tick the box in your application to say you are applying under the Offer an Interview Scheme (this used to be called the Guaranteed Interview Scheme).\\n\\nIf you need any changes or support during the recruitment process, please email us via our website.\\n\\nYou can also find more details about asking for adjustments at interview on our website.\\n\\nImportant to know\\n\\nYou must meet all the essential requirements listed in the job description.\\n\\nIf lots of people apply, we may need to limit interviews to a fair number of disabled applicants who best meet the criteria.\\n\\nEquality, Diversity and Inclusion\\n\\nEDI is a priority at Scope. We welcome applications from people of colour and other underrepresented communities.

We aim to create a culture where everyone feels they belong, treating all with dignity and respect. As a disability equality charity, accessibility and inclusion come first. We listen, learn and continuously improve.\\n\\nYou can find out more about our approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion on the Scope website.\\n\\nBenefits\\n\\n * \\n\\n 35 days holiday\\n\\n * \\n\\n Pay progression at 6 months and 2 years\\n\\n * \\n\\n Company pension\\n\\n * \\n\\n Excellent training and career development\\n\\n * \\n\\n Strong colleague networks (disability, race, LGBTQ+, gender, social mobility, carers, young people)\\n\\n * \\n\\n Wellbeing incentives, discounted gym membership, cycle-to-work scheme, and more\\n\\n * \\n\\n Long service awards and employee recognition awards\\n\\nOne in four of us in the UK are disabled and we are a diverse, proud, and vibrant community.

We’re here to create an equal future with all disabled people. We campaign to transform attitudes to disability, tackle injustice and inspire action. We are creating a powerful movement of disabled people, allies, organisations and businesses.\\n\\nTogether we will be unstoppable.\\n\\nHow to apply\\n\\nPlease visit our website via the apply button.\\n\\nPlease note that successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.\\n\\nWe welcome all applications by 11:59pm GMT on 13th February 2026.\\n\\nWe welcome applications from people with lived experience of disability and from all backgrounds.\\n\\nShop Cover Manager – Apply now