Retail Store Assistant - (Farnham, Downing Street)

Cancer Research UK; Farnham; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Flexible leave allowance

Discounts on travel and tech

Gym membership

Job summary

Cancer Research UK is seeking a motivated store assistant for our Farnham shop to help support fundraising and engager communities. You will act as an ambassador, delivering friendly service and assisting in daily shop operations, while promoting the charity’s mission locally.

The role is part-time (7.5 hours/week) with a £12.71 per hour wage plus benefits, reporting to the shop manager and contributing to team targets. Flexible rota and enjoyment of community work are encouraged.

Qualifications

• Experience in busy customer service environments.
• Ability to work well in a team and independently when required.
• Excellent communication with customers and supporters.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer and supporter service.
• Help the shop team achieve sales and fundraising targets.
• Maintain shop standards, visual presentation and safety compliance.
• Build relationships with the local community and colleagues.
• Support fundraising events and may take keyholder responsibilities.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Communication skills

Workload management

Job description

Millions of bargain-hunters. Endless pre-loved items. One meaningful purpose.

Retail Store Assistant £12.71 per hour + benefits Reports to: Shop manager Department: Trading Location: Farnham shop (West St) Contract: Permanent Working hours: Part time 7.5 hours per week External Closing date: 18th October 2026 23:55 Internal: In line with organisational policy this role will remain open for internal applications until: 18th October 2026 at 23:55 Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

We’re looking for a motivated store assistant to join Cancer Research UK’s trading team. You’ll be acting as an ambassador for Cancer Research UK. Your shop will be a place where your community gets to meet our people, understand our brand, and see some of the great things we do.

You’ll also be surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are.

What will I be doing?

• Providing excellent customer and supporter service.
• Working as an integral part of the shop team to achieve ambitious sales and fundraising targets.
• Assisting with maintaining shop standards including visual presentation, safeguarding compliance and health and safety.
• Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues.
• Supporting fundraising events for your store to achieve fundraising targets.
• Taking keyholder responsibility as required (training provided).
• There will be a varied amount of manual handling and physical activity required within the day-to-day duties of the role.

What are you looking for?

• An understanding of what makes great customer service.
• Experience of working in a busy customer service environment.
• The ability to manage your own workload and work independently when required.
• The ability to work well in a team.
• Excellent communication skills.

Flexibility, our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis. Whilst a level of flexibility is needed to meet the needs of the business, we don’t forget that you have a life outside of work too.

What will I gain?

We make sure you are supported by a generous salary and benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

• a substantial retirement plan
• a generous and flexible leave allowance
• discounts on anything from travel to technology
• gym membership
• and much more

Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team. Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

We’re the world’s leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research. We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people’s day-to-day lives through our research, influence and information. We are beating cancer – step by step, day by day. Our work means that people with cancer live better lives through early diagnosis and kinder, more effective treatments. Find a purposeful career that will empower you to grow and collaborate with like-minded experts.