Retail Stock Processor

Pilgrims Hospices is looking for an organised Retail Stock Processor to join the team and ensure that sufficient stock is processed daily to maintain the required stock density for our Ashford Discount Store.

The Role:

As a Retail Stock Processor you will support the Retail Manager in processing stock of clothing, books, media, electrical, and bric-a-brac for a high volume store.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Retail Manager with ensuring sufficient stock is processed daily to maintain the required stock density in store.
• Meeting agreed financial targets.
• Maintaining effective stock management and merchandising.
• Managing and training volunteers.
• Carrying out shop administration.
• Following health and safety policy & procedures and giving training when needed.
• Implementing and ensuring the growth or our Gift Aid scheme.

This list is not exhaustive.  Please see the Retail Stock Processor job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities.

The post holder must ensure that tasks are completed to a high standard, in line with standards expected within a retail environment.

Working Arrangements

This is a part-time role of 24 hrs per week and is based at the Ashford Discount Store. Working days will usually be between Monday and Sunday, flexibility is essential.

About You

To be successful in this role you should:

• Have a friendly and approachable attitude
• Be able to work well as part of a team or on your own
• Have retail sales experience, particularly in a Fashion retailer
• Be numerate and commercially aware
• Have an awareness of high street retail fashion

About us

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision

“Of a community where people with a life limiting illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Other benefits

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

• Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
• A sense of wellbeing
• A good work-life balance
• Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links
• NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free hospice parking

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.

If you think this is your ideal role, please apply now.