Deputy Community Shop Manager

Acorns Children's Hospice Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts from leading retail

Blue Light Card

Discounts on refurbished tech

Health cash plan

Gym membership

Time off to volunteer

Bike2Work scheme

Wellbeing support

Pension contributions or NHS pension

Job summary

Acorns Children's Hospice Trust is seeking a Deputy Shop Manager to support the St Peters Shop Manager. This 15-hour-per-week role involves leading volunteers, shaping stock and merchandising, and helping achieve sales targets. Based in the St Peters area, you’ll travel to cover nearby shops when needed.

We require retail experience and the ability to motivate a team, with a focus on meeting targets. Eligible to work in the UK and willing to participate in safeguarding checks are essential.

Qualifications

• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• 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 engaging shop floor experience
• Make decisions about stock quality, pricing and merchandising style
• Lead a team of volunteers
• Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid

Job description

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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
• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• 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

• 15 hours per week
• Based in St Peters
• Employee discounts from leading retailers - including the Blue Light Card
• Discounts on refurbished tech
• 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 GoldRights 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.