Retail Assistant - Part Time, Evenings & Weekends

Job Overview

We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Hereford, Herefordshire. This is a permanent part‑time position requiring a minimum of 12 hours per week across three days, including weekends. You will need to be available for weekday evenings and all day on Saturday and Sunday.

Pay

• £10.95 per hour for workers aged 16‑20
• £12.81 per hour for workers aged 21 and over

Benefits

• 6 weeks holiday each year
• Great training and development opportunities
• 15% staff discount at over 300 shops
• Smart uniform
• Free life assurance
• Staff benefits package, including a virtual GP and discounts on cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel

• Welcome customers with a friendly smile and simple hello
• Help customers locate items they need
• Provide fast and friendly service at the tills, offering assistance with packing and a courteous goodbye
• Handle stock and deliveries, placing products into freezers and on shelves promptly
• Work with the team to complete daily and weekly routines that maintain shop safety, cleanliness and tidiness

• Friendly, positive and hardworking approach
• Energetic and adaptable to a busy schedule, including shifting between delivery, till service, customer service and cleaning tasks
• Highly reliable, crucial for a small team that depends on punctual and consistent performance
• Flexible with scheduling, able to cover for colleagues when needed; rota is planned three weeks in advance and personal commitments are considered

Starting as a retail assistant can lead to career growth within Farmfoods, with opportunities for promotion to Shop and Area Manager positions. Training programmes are available and many current managers began their careers in our shops.

We are a family business focused on offering customers value, quality products and a genuinely friendly customer experience. Our retail assistants play a vital role in representing this reputation to hundreds of customers each week.

Position: PTRA

Hours:

12 per week
Days: 3