Volunteer Snack Shop Assistant

NHS; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Woolwich is offering a volunteer opportunity in the Memorial Hospital Snack Shop. Volunteers will serve staff and visitors, manage stock, and receive training in cash handling and food hygiene. Ideal candidates should possess excellent communication skills and a friendly demeanor. Experience in a shop environment is preferred but not necessary. This role contributes to providing care for patients through profits raised in the shop.

Qualifications

• Volunteers must live within 8 miles of the Memorial Hospital.
• Experience of working in a shop environment is an advantage but not essential.
• Knowledge of stock rotation requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve staff, clients, relatives, and visitors at the snack shop.
• Open shop at prescribed times and display goods correctly.
• Monitor temperature of refrigerated storage units.
• Use cash register and complete daily sales returns.
• Attend Food & Hygiene training and fire safety training.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Friendly demeanor

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to volunteer within the Memorial Hospital Snack shop serving staff, clients, relatives and visitors of the Hospital.

All profits raised are to be spent on our inpatient services.

Volunteers must live within 8 miles of the Memorial Hospital

Main duties of the job

To open the shop at prescribed times, display goods in display units observing sell by dates and rotating the stock.

To monitor and record the temperature of the refrigerated storage units +1/+8c best +4c

Use cash register & complete daily sales returns

Shop staff need to be friendly and amicable.

Experience working in a shop would be and advantage but is not essential

On the job training and awareness of the fire alarm and when to leave the building.

Volunteers must be trustworthy

On the job training on the use of the till, sales returns and refrigerator temperature reading. Personal hygiene.

Shop staff must attend Food & Hygiene training and statutory Fire training.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to volunteer within the Memorial Hospital Snack shop serving staff, clients, relatives and visitors of the Hospital.

All profits raised are to be spent on our inpatient services.

Volunteers must live within 8 miles of the Memorial Hospital.

To open the shop at prescribed times, display goods in display units observing sell by dates and rotating the stock.

To monitor and record the temperature of the refrigerated storage units +1/+8c best +4c.

Use cash register & complete daily sales returns.

Shop staff need to be friendly and amicable.

Experience working in a shop would be and advantage but is not essential.

On the job training and awareness of the fire alarm and when to leave the building.

Volunteers must be trustworthy.

On the job training on the use of the till, sales returns and refrigerator temperature reading.

Shop staff must attend Food & Hygiene training and statutory Fire training.

Person Specification

Communication

• Must have excellent communication skill

Experience

• Experience of working in a shop environment

Knowledge

• Knowledge of stock rotation requirements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.