Deputy Community Shop Manager

LLOYD'S REGISTER INTERNATIONAL; Worcester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Eye Test discount

Health cash plan

Gym membership discount

Bike2Work scheme

Wellbeing support

Pension scheme

Job summary

Acorns Children's Hospice is seeking a Deputy Community Shop Manager to support the Shop Manager in leading a team of volunteers, driving sales and maintaining high standards. This part-time role is 15 hours weekly, including weekends, based in Worcester.

You will help shape the shop floor experience, manage stock and pricing decisions, and work to achieve targets while supporting the local community. We value initiative, IT skills, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.
• IT skills.
• Happy to work weekends.
• Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling.
• Ability to travel independently to cover shops in the area if needed.

Responsibilities

• Support the Shop Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
• Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
• Lead a team of volunteers
• Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid

Skills

Retail experience

Target-driven

Team leadership

IT skills

Weekend flexibility

Manual handling

Travel to area shops

Tools

POS systems

Job description

We are now looking for a Deputy Shop Manager to support the St Peters Shop Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving set targets and maintaining standards. You’ll work 15 hours per week, including some weekend working.

About the Role

Acorns Children's Hospice are a children's charity, offering specialist palliative nursing care and support for local children and their families. Every year, we support over 750 children and nearly 1,000 families, including those who are bereaved. We have a network of charity shops across the West Midlands and Gloucestershire, which help to provide the funding that we need to provide this care.

As Deputy Community Shop Manager, you will:

• Support the Shop Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
• Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
• Lead a team of volunteers
• Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid

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About You

• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• IT skills
• Happy to work weekends
• Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
• Ability to travel independently to cover shops in the area if needed

We want our Shop Managers to firmly embed their shop into the fabric of the local community by being proactive in assessing opportunities within the community for the shop to get involved in, so ideally you’ll be based in the local area.

What We Offer

• £26,422.50 per annum (pro rata)
• 15 hours per week
• Based in St Peters
• Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
• Discounts on refurbished tech
• Eye Test discount
• Health cash plan
• Gym membership and equipment discount scheme
• Time off to volunteer
• Bike2Work scheme - save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
• Wellbeing, legal and financial support
• Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
• NHS pension scheme life assurance or Acorns group life assurance scheme

You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be asked to provide two satisfactory references.

As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [e-mail]

Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?

Part Time

Worcester

Retail

Wednesday 30th of September 2026