Retail Assistants

Farmfoods; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

15% staff discount

6 weeks holiday

Great training and development opportu

Uniform provided

Free life assurance

Staff benefits package: virtual GP,;c

Job summary

Farmfoods in Weston-super-Mare is recruiting part-time Retail Assistants. You will welcome customers, help them find items, and operate tills with friendly service. Weekend shifts are required, with flexible hours and thorough training provided.

The role offers hourly pay of £10.95 for ages 16–20 and £12.81 for ages 21+, six weeks’ holiday, a 15% staff discount, life assurance, and access to a staff benefits package including a virtual GP, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.

Qualifications

• Friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
• Enjoy being busy and handle multiple tasks.
• Reliable and an important part of a small team.
• Flexible shifts; rota planned three weeks in advance.
• Employment Verification check will be sent if offered the position.

Responsibilities

• Make customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and hello.
• Help customers find items they are looking for.
• Provide fast, friendly till service and assist with packing.
• Handle stock during deliveries and stocking.
• Work with the team to keep the shop safe, clean and tidy.

Job description

We are looking to recruit part time Retail Assistants for our shop in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset (postcode: BS22 8NH). We can offer a range of part time contracts with a variety of different shift patterns available. Please note the following before applying to make sure that these opportunities are right for you:

Pay & benefits

• - All positions will involve some weekend work.
• - Ages 16-20 = £10.95 per hour
• - Ages 21+ = £12.81 per hour
• - 6 weeks holiday each year.
• - Great training and development opportunities.
• - 15% staff discount to use in any of our 300+ shops on a great range of food and household essentials.
• - A smart uniform.
• - Free life assurance.
• - A staff benefits package which includes a virtual GP as well as discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel.

Duties

• - Make all of our customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello.
• - Help customers find the items that they are looking for.
• - Give a fast and friendly service at the tills, always offering help to pack and leaving a good impression with a friendly thank you and goodbye.
• - Handle stock with care whilst working deliveries, quickly placing products into our freezers and onto our shelves ready for our customers to buy.
• - Work with the rest of your team to complete the daily and weekly routines that keep our shops safe, clean and tidy.

Requirements

• - A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
• - To enjoy being busy as there is always something to do. You'll jump from putting out deliveries to serving on the till, helping customers on the shop floor, completing important cleaning and stock rotation routines and more!
• - To be reliable as you will be an important part of a small team. Your colleagues and customers will depend upon to do your best on each shift and not let the team down.
• - A bit of flexibility when it comes to your shifts. When other members of your team are off enjoying their holidays, we may need you to work slightly different hours to cover for them. Rota's are planned three weeks in advance and your commitments outside of work will always be taken into consideration when planning your shifts.
• - To complete an Employment Verification check if successful and offered the advertised position. An Employment Verification check will be sent to you via email if hired and confirm your previous employment history against the records held by HMRC.

More than just a job: Many people come to us for a part time job to earn a bit of money whilst they are studying at school, college or university and others find that it fits in well around other commitments like raising a family. If you decide to stick around then there are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have some great training programmes and always look to promote to Shop and Area Manager positions from within. Many people in management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our shops, so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.

A bit about us: Farmfoods are a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail. We aim to offer sensational value to customers on a great range of everyday family oriented goods. We back up our sensational value with a focus on delivering an 'old fashioned', genuine and friendly customer experience. Our Retail Assistants are very important. They each serve hundreds of customers each week and have the reputation of Farmfoods in their hands. To our customers, they are Farmfoods.