Overview
Job Title: Project Worker (Part-time)
Responsible to: Manager
Salary: £12.60/hour
Hours of work: 12 hours over 3 days, 9.00am - 1.00pm, Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
Place of work: Charity office based in Manchester
Contract: Permanent
Company benefits: Pension scheme, Healthcare scheme, 22 days annual leave pro rata plus bank holidays and additional discretionary reward days between Christmas and New Year
About us
Wood Street Mission is a children’s charity helping children and families impacted by poverty in Manchester and Salford. We provide practical help to help meet children’s day-to-day needs and improve their life chances. We give clothes, bedding and baby equipment to struggling families, along with toys and books which are important for children’s wellbeing and development. We support engagement in education by helping families with the costs of school uniform and run Book Roadshow events in schools to promote reading and improve children’s literacy. We work to raise awareness about child poverty and help thousands of children and their families every year.
Purpose of Project Worker Post
To support the operation of all projects especially Family Basics.
The role centres on our Family Basics service, where families come to choose children’s clothes, toys, toiletries and bedding, and requires unloading, sorting, labelling, stocking and assisting with frontline delivery from time to time. The role also includes work in all our other services as required
Main duties and responsibilities
- Sort donations received including clothing, bedding, toys, baby equipment, and books, checking for quality and suitability.
- Maintain the organisation and storage of donations in the sorting areas to ensure the effective delivery of Family Basics and other projects throughout the year.
- Work in Family Basics as directed, ensuring goods are labelled and organised to meet families’ needs, assisting families in finding goods, checking out goods, and helping re-stock the project as required.
- Assist on the front desk and carry out other duties as directed, including other seasonal projects as required.
- Deal with any donors calling to drop off donations of goods or cash and supply information as needed.
- Support the work of volunteers, sorting goods or working in Family Basics and assist in their training as directed by your Manager.
- Help out at events such as Book Clubs and the Christmas Project at Wood Street and in outreach locations as required.
- Accompany the driver on collections or deliveries where needed, including trips to dispose of unsuitable donations at the tip.
- Assist in unloading the van and any private donations delivered to the door.
- Attend and participate constructively in team meetings, supervision and appraisal
- Implement Wood Street Mission policies and guidelines as set out in the Staff Handbook
- To undertake training as agreed with your manager
- Work flexibly and undertake such other work appropriate to the post as may be assigned by your Manager
