Assistant Shop Manager Salary: £18,720 pro rata (FTE £23,400 per annum)
Team: Retail
About Shooting Star Children’s Hospices
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and creative Assistant Manager to join the team running our Weybridge shop.
Shooting Star Children’s Hospices provides specialist care and support to families who have a baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition, or who have been bereaved. Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we support families across Surrey, north-west London and south-west London from diagnosis to end of life and throughout bereavement with a range of nursing, practical, emotional and medical care.
It’s a great time to join Shooting Star Children’s Hospices as we have exciting plans to expand our retail team.
Your key purpose will be, in the absence of and alongside the Shop Manager, to manage a team of volunteers to maximise sales, deliver excellent customer service and ensure that the shop premises and assets are maintained to a high standard, according to legal requirements and Shooting Star Children’s Hospices (SSCH) policies and procedures
This role requires experience of assisting in managing a shop including knowledge of retail and health and safety legislation and administrative/cash handling experience.
Please see the attached job description for more information about this opportunity at Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.
In return you will receive a competitive salary along with a range of benefits, which include:
Pension scheme
~ NHS Pension Scheme (for eligible employees) or our stakeholder pension scheme, with up to 7% employer contributions
~ Annual leave
~27 days plus Bank Holidays rising with length of service
~2 weeks paid sabbatical leave after 5, 10 and 15 years’ service
~ Generous sick pay scheme
~ Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave pay
~ Flexible working arrangements
~ Reimbursed professional membership fees
~ Employee referral scheme
~ Blue Light discount card
~ Employee Assistance Programme
~ Cycle to work scheme
~ We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff to share this commitment. Employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Shooting Star Children’s Hospice is committed to inclusion and diversity in everything we do. Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence.
Our vision is for Shooting Star Children’s Hospice to be a place where people of all backgrounds, groups and communities feel welcomed to work and volunteer.
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