Customer Assistant (Trading)

Booths; Kendal; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Discount card

Wellbeing support

Pension

Job summary

Booths in Kendal is hiring a part-time Customer Assistant (Trading) to focus on delivering a warm, helpful shopping experience for customers. The role involves serving at the checkouts, replenishing stock, and checking dates across fresh produce and groceries.

You may also assist with unloading deliveries as needed. Hours are 11.25 per week with shifts across a flexible window, including weekends and evenings.

Qualifications

• Part-time role with 11.25 hours per week.
• Shifts include early mornings and evenings, with weekends.
• Overtime may be available to cover rostering needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve customers at checkouts and assist with purchases.
• Replenish stock and ensure correct shelf presentation.
• Check product dates across fresh produce and groceries.
• Help unload deliveries when required.

Skills

Customer service

Stock replenishment

Check dates on produce

Unload deliveries

Job description

Customer Assistant (Trading)

Rate:£12.80

Location: Wainwrights Yard, Kendal,Cumbria, LA9 4DP

Hours: 11.25 hours per week

ContractType: Permanent

Closing date:28/08/26

Working pattern

This is a part time position with a contract of 11.25 hours per week, with potential of overtime.Shifts will be a mixture of hours in the window of 6am - 10.00pm.You must be able to work 1 weekend day and 1 evening shift during the week.

Maximum shift length will be 7.5 hours excluding breaks and shortest shift will be 4.5 excluding breaks.

As part of your contract, we ask for availability that is, as a minimum, one and a half times your weekly hours. For example, if you were on a 10-hour contract, we would ask for 15 hours of availability. This doesn\'t mean you will work 15 hours (unless there is overtime available, and this may be offered to you) but your shifts may be placed anywhere within the availability you provide. This helps us build fair, consistent rotas, and ensures we can meet customer demand across the week. With this role being in Retail, you must also be available to work one late night and one weekend day per week.

You will have at least 2 weeks’ notice of when your shifts will be. If you can’t exactly match the hours and days we are looking for, this can be discussed. We are always happy to hear from you.

The Role

Our customers will be your main focus, and everything you do will be with their shopping experience in mind. That means as a Trading Customer Assistant, you could be serving our customers at the checkouts, replenishing stock, checking dates across our fresh produce and grocery products, as well as helping unload deliveries. You don\'t need retail experience to join our family. As with our with our bespoke training you will become an expert in delighting our customers with our warm northern welcome and creating a magical shopping experience for our customers.

About

At Booths, you’re more than an employee, you’re part of the family. We’ve been family-run since 1847, and that spirit runs through everything we do. When you join our team, you’ll feel supported, valued, and inspired to be your best.

We believe in three things:People, Product, and Place. That means looking after each other, championing great food and drink, and creating welcoming stores where our customers and colleagues feel at home.

Working for us has great rewards:

• Discount card, 25% off Café, lunchtime and Hot Counter, 20% off Meat, Fish, Fruit and Vegetables, 10% off Licensed,15% off everything else
• Shopping discounts with my Booths benefits
• Wellbeing support
• Pension

Rate

Under 18: £10.30 p/h

18 – 20 years: £10.94 p/h

21+: £12.80 p/h

Job Description

Customer Assistant (Trading)