St Helena Hospice is seeking an Assistant Manager, to work at our Dovercourt shop. The role is for 22.5 hours per week (3 days) working on a rota basis that would include some weekends
What are we looking for?
Retail Management Experience.
To support the paid staff and volunteers through effective communication, training, guidance, and direction.
Excellent customer service and community engagement skills, acting as a positive ambassador for St Helena and promoting its image within the local community.
Good organisational and commercial awareness, with the ability to identify sales opportunities and drive shop performance.
Main Duties of the Job:
The key priorities of an Assistant Shop Manager are:
- To run an efficient and effective shop to maximise profits from the sale of donated stock for St Helena.
- To support the volunteer team by providing communication, leadership, training, support, guidance and direction to their efforts.
- Ability to work well in team in a fast paced environment
- To promote the image of St Helena in the community.
St Helena may elect to bring forward the closing date for this vacancy in the event we receive the desired volume of applications. You are therefore encouraged you to submit your application early if you wish to express an interest in this opportunity.
Please note that this post requires an Enhanced DBS check.
About us:
St Helena Hospices’ core values and behaviours will be embedded in our recruitment, our training and development review and our decision making process.
St Helena provides a friendly, supportive and positive working environment across all our sites and diverse teams. We are an ambitious organisation determined to make a difference to local people across north Essex who face incurable illness and bereavement. That means working with us is a demanding but hugely fulfilling experience.
In return we offer;
· Group Pension Plan
· Employee Assistance and Wellbeing support
· We cover the cost of your DBS Check and the periodic renewal
Job Types: Permanent, part time
Salary: £14,911.55 per year
Schedule:
Closing Date 16/8/2026
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £14,911.55 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
Work Location: In person
