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Job summary
Tesco Colleague role in Melksham is a part-time position offering flexible hours with a minimum commitment and a focus on customer service. The role includes frontline store duties and customer interaction aligned with Tesco's service standards.
Pay starts at £13.28 per hour, rising to £14.55 in M25 stores, with 16 hours minimum weekly and shifts scheduled with notice. This position emphasizes teamwork, customer care, and adaptability across store operations.
Qualifications
- Experience delivering friendly, proactive service.
- Ability to build rapport with customers and colleagues.
- Comfort with handling store tasks and policies.
Responsibilities
- Provide friendly, natural service and engage with customers.
- Assist across store tasks: shelf replenishment, checkout, order picking, delivery support.
- Contribute to store routines and sales through attentive service.
Skills
Job description
Customers are at the centre of everything we do. Working in our stores means variety, teamwork, and plenty of daily challenges. You’ll meet great people, learn new skills, and be part of an inclusive team. Whether you want stability, flexibility, or a chance to grow your career, this role could be a great fit.
Tesco Colleague pay starts at £13.28 per hour, rising to £14.55 in stores within the M25. Some locations may offer additional payments.
We guarantee a minimum of 16 hours per week, though roles from 12 hours are also available. Your contracted hours will be scheduled within the availability windows shown, with at least 3 weeks’ notice of your shifts. If your availability is close to what we’re looking for, we still encourage you to apply.
- Providing friendly, natural service and getting to know your customers.
- Being confident with our products and services and offering help when needed.
- Providing flexible support across the store, including shelf replenishment, checkout service, online order picking, occasional delivery assistance, and general service and replenishment duties.
- Making customer focused decisions and completing key store routines.
- Understanding how your role supports great service, strong sales, waste reduction and overall store performance.
- To be over 18 for this role.
- A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride.
- To build rapport so customers leave having had a great experience.
- To use your initiative and make the right decisions for customers.
- To work well in a team and communicate openly, having fun, and celebrating success.
- Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day, rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible working available from day one
- 10% off with your Colleague Clubcard, rising to 15% on pay day weekends, with a second card to share with family after 12 weeks service
- Free wellbeing services to support your mind, body and life
- Life cover worth five times your pay and an award winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
- A range of benefits to choose from, including discounts, shares and cycle to work schemes
- Uniform provided, plus policies to support you through life’s key moments
Tesco’s vision is to be every customer’s favourite way to shop. Our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and the planet a little better every day by acting responsibly and sustainably.
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we are a place where Everyone’s Welcome.
We understand that life varies for each of us, so we’re always open to conversations about flexible working. Talk to us during your application about how we can support you.
We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader, and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.
Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please visit the Government website here
- 1. https://www.tesco.com/careers/en-GB/accessibility
- 2. https://www.gov.uk/know-when-you-can-leave-school>
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Company: Tesco Salary: Competitive Hours: Part-time Location: Melksham, SN12 6TA Job type: Permanent Posting date: 18 Sept 2026 Closing date: 25 Sept 2026
Customers are at the centre of everything we do. Working in our stores means variety, teamwork, and plenty of daily challenges. You’ll meet great people, learn new skills, and be part of an inclusive team. Whether you want stability, flexibility, or a chance to grow your career, this role could be a great fit.
Tesco Colleague pay starts at £13.28 per hour, rising to £14.55 in stores within the M25. Some locations may offer additional payments.
We guarantee a minimum of 16 hours per week, though roles from 12 hours are also available. Your contracted hours will be scheduled within the availability windows shown, with at least 3 weeks’ notice of your shifts. If your availability is close to what we’re looking for, we still encourage you to apply.
- Providing friendly, natural service and getting to know your customers.
- Being confident with our products and services and offering help when needed.
- Providing flexible support across the store, including shelf replenishment, checkout service, online order picking, occasional delivery assistance, and general service and replenishment duties.
- Making customer focused decisions and completing key store routines.
- Understanding how your role supports great service, strong sales, waste reduction and overall store performance.
- To be over 18 for this role.
- A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride.
- To build rapport so customers leave having had a great experience.
- To use your initiative and make the right decisions for customers.
- To work well in a team and communicate openly, having fun, and celebrating success.
- Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day, rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible working available from day one
- 10% off with your Colleague Clubcard, rising to 15% on pay day weekends, with a second card to share with family after 12 weeks service
- Free wellbeing services to support your mind, body and life
- Life cover worth five times your pay and an award winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
- A range of benefits to choose from, including discounts, shares and cycle to work schemes
- Uniform provided, plus policies to support you through life’s key moments
Tesco’s vision is to be every customer’s favourite way to shop. Our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and the planet a little better every day by acting responsibly and sustainably.
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we are a place where Everyone’s Welcome.
We understand that life varies for each of us, so we’re always open to conversations about flexible working. Talk to us during your application about how we can support you.
We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader, and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.
Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please visit the Government website here
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.
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