Retail Logistics Assistant

Location Donation Centre, Unit 1 Queensway Avenue South, Queensway, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 9AG
Vacancy Type Permanent/Part Time Salary £25,114.39 pro rata per annum (£15,068.63 actual salary) Hours (per week) 22.50 Closing Date Sunday, November 1, 2026 Interview Date Monday 9th November 2026 Job Profile Job Profile document

Job Summary

St Michael’s Hospice supports and enables the community of Hastings and Rother to live well with dying, death and loss. Our services are provided via in-patient beds and at home and we also offer Wellbeing support, both out-patient and virtual.

We want to recruit and retain the most diversely talented people and have a workforce representative of our community.

We aspire to be a place where everyone feels welcome; whether you are cared for or supported by us, employed by us, volunteer for us, or support us in any way. We recognise that being a diverse and inclusive organisation will enable us to achieve our vision of a kind, resilient and empowered community.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, reliable and hands‑on person with a full, clean UK driving licence to join our Retail team. If you enjoy being on the move, working with people and making a real difference, this varied role could be for you. By keeping donations and stock moving across our shops, you’ll help raise vital funds for St Michael’s Hospice.

As an experienced driver with a clean driving licence, you will be familiar with 3.5 tonne box vans and the safe operation of a tail lift and long wheel base 3.5 tonne transit vans.

You will be working as part of the Distribution and Logistics team, collecting and delivering items to and from our shops and warehouse, which are situated in Hastings and Rother. Reliable and hardworking, you will be physically fit with good local geographical knowledge.

As you will be working within a team you will have good communication and organisational skills and demonstrate high levels of customer service to our donors, volunteers and staff. In addition to your primary role, you will on occasion be required to cover for other roles in the warehouse team during staff absence or busy periods.

On occasion you may have to work on your own and therefore need a high level of self‑motivation. You need to be flexible to cover holidays, sickness and changing business needs. There may be some evening and weekend work to support retail events for which you will receive time off in lieu.

The work pattern will be Monday - Friday 7.30 - 12.00

At St Michael’s Hospice we offer a friendly, team orientated work environment – a good pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership, an Employee Assistance Programme (Benenden Healthcare), up to 33days annual leave plus bank holidays, free refreshments, free parking, supportive supervision and a proactive Education Department to support with your development. Hospice employees also qualify for a Blue Light Card with access to a huge array of discounts.

Please note if a vacancy is part time the salary will be pro rata.