Sales Assistant

Hope House Children’s Hospices have an opportunity for two Sales Assistants to join our team based at our new Hope House superstore in Oswestry. You will join us on a permanent, part-time basis on either: 22.5 hours per week over 7 days 7.5 hours per week on a Saturday In return, our Sales Assistants will receive an hourly rate of £10.90 per hour. Here at Hope House Children’s Hospices we are on an exciting journey to increase our annual contribution from our retail business by £300,000 to £1,000,000 a year by 2025, enabling us to reach every child and family who need us and to ensure that nobody faces the death of a child alone. About the Sales Assistant role: We are excited to be recruiting to our new flagship superstore in Oswestry town centre. The new Oswestry store will be open this spring at premises on Smithfield Street. The superstore will sell an extensive range of new and pre-loved items donated by supporters who want to help seriously ill local children. The new Oswestry store will be a fantastic environment for our staff and volunteers, if you are tempted to join our family and help us to run the store then click apply today, we would love to hear from you. Our Sales Assistant will provide excellent customer service to our incredible supporters who bring us donations of stock and who shop with us. The Sales Assistant will be enthusiastic, self-motivated and confident as on occasion, you may be required to act as key holder of the shop. We are looking for a Sales Assistant who: Is self-motivated
Uses their initiative to achieve goals
Is able to work in a team with the ability to get on with people from all walks of life
Demonstrates excellent customer service skills
Well organised and willing to ‘muck in’
Is able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
Is numerate with the ability to follow cash handling, recording and banking procedures. In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes: generous annual leave entitlement
pension scheme
Blue Light Card and Staff rewards programme
Wellbeing services which includes staff counselling
Great development opportunities Closing date: Sunday 10th March 2024 Interview date: Friday 15th Match 2024 If you have what it takes to be our Sales Assistant then please click ‘apply’ on this page for the 7.5 hour contract or switch to our careers page here to apply for the 22.5 hour vacancy. Our retail team would love to hear from anyone interested in our Sales Assistant vacancies, you can call the team on . Hope House and Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospices are committed to equality of opportunity and meeting the needs of children, young people and families. The care we provide and the environment we create to deliver care reflects our ongoing commitment to respecting the diversity of the communities we serve, and the individual physical, spiritual and emotional needs of each person and their loved ones.

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