Store Assistant Manager - Yate

The Vacancy

We're looking for someone to join the team as a Retail Assistant Manager in our Yate shop.

Are you someone who is looking for their next career step, passionate about charity, fashion and wants to use your skills to make a real difference? Then we want to hear from you!

This opportunity is perfect for someone who is organised, hands on, proactive, creative and driven! You will enjoy one of the most diverse, career building and rewarding roles in retail. You will be joining a great team working in a supportive and collaborative environment for one of Bristol's best loved charities.

The details:

• Working 37.5 hours per week, 5 in 7 days
• Salary: £26,318 - £27,198 per annum, dependent on experience
• Permanent position

Key responsibilities:

• To assist and work alongside the manager in optimising sales, managing, and leading a team of staff and volunteers
• Delivering consistently high retail and customer service standards
• Actively supporting and demonstrating our values through your role
• In the manager's absence ensure that all instructions and information from Head Office and line management are communicated to staff and actioned on a regular basis
• Promotion of diversity and gender rights

What we are looking for:

• Able to work in a fast-paced environment
• A genuine interest in fashion, charity retail and second hand
• Excellent leadership, customer service and interpersonal skills
• Ability to earn trust, motivate and build rapport
• High levels of organisation with a proactive approach
• Open and adaptable to change and able to support others through it
• IT literacy and numeracy skills. Using email systems and online resources; use and understand basic spreadsheet
• Inspired to face the challenges of charity retailing

Due to the nature of the work involved, this role is exempt from the ROA and all job-holders are required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Sensitive DBS applications:
If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, please call  or email  once the form has been issued to you.

Strictly no agencies.

We've spent over 40 years helping people die in peace, and with dignity. Combining compassion with clinical expertise, we provide patients with the best possible care at the end of their lives.

We're here for the people around our patients too - those closest to them. Before, during and after a bereavement, we provide support that's remembered forever.

We think it's that unforgettable support that inspires people to give back to St Peter's. To fundraise for us. Donate. Volunteer. We're not exaggerating when we say that we couldn't do what we do without our wonderful supporters. We really can't thank them enough.

We want to help many more people to die well. And we're doing this by teaching others. As a centre of educational excellence, we share our skills with other health professionals, helping the NHS and care homes to provide better end-of-life care.

We're here for all, for free, forever.

• 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays pro rata. This increases the longer you're with us
• Competitive salary
• Pension, with employer matched contributions up to 6%

• Enhanced sick pay, rising with service to a maximum of 12 weeks' full and 12 weeks' half pay.
• Birthday leave - a day off in the month of your birthday
• Ability to buy or sell up to three days of annual leave per year
• Volunteer leave
• Life insurance scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Access to discounts and offers through the Blue Light Card
• Home and electronics salary sacrifice scheme
• Free parking at our main office sites
• Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
• Travel discounts
• Eye care scheme
• Annual flu vaccine scheme