Furniture Store Saturday Sales Assistant
Salary: £24,853 FTE
Contract Type: Permanent – Part Time
Hours: 7.5 hours per week (Saturday)
What are we looking for?
We are seeking a friendly, enthusiastic and customer-focused Saturday Sales Assistant to join our Furniture Store in Chineham.
This is a varied and hands-on retail role, helping to maximise sales and provide an excellent experience for customers visiting our store. You will support the day-to-day running of the showroom, assisting customers with purchases, maintaining attractive displays, and working alongside colleagues and volunteers to ensure stock is presented to the highest standard.
The role also involves the safe movement of furniture and other donated items within the showroom and storage areas, ensuring sold items are prepared for collection and new stock is brought onto the shop floor promptly to maximise sales opportunities.
Whilst driving duties are not currently part of this position, a full UK driving licence would be advantageous as the role may develop in the future to support furniture collections and deliveries.
The role
Key Responsibilities
· Providing excellent customer service and assisting customers with furniture purchases.
· Maximising sales opportunities through positive customer engagement and product knowledge.
· Maintaining a welcoming, clean and well-presented showroom environment.
· Supporting the movement of sold furniture from the showroom and preparing items for collection.
· Assisting with the safe handling and movement of furniture and donated goods.
· Bringing new stock onto the shop floor and replenishing displays to optimise sales.
· Working closely with colleagues and volunteers to ensure the smooth operation of the store.
· Supporting stock rotation, merchandising and general store housekeeping activities.
· Representing St. Michael's Hospice professionally and positively within the local community.
About You
This is a varied and physically active role, so you will:
· Have a positive, friendly and approachable manner.
· Enjoy working directly with customers and providing outstanding service.
· Be enthusiastic about retail and helping to achieve sales targets.
· Be comfortable lifting and moving furniture and other large items safely.
· Work well as part of a team and be willing to support colleagues and volunteers.
· Be organised, reliable and proactive.
· Have good communication skills, both verbal and written.
· Have experience in a retail, sales or customer-facing environment.
A full UK driving licence would be advantageous but is not essential.
St. Michael’s Hospice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undergo relevant background checks, including a DBS check and provide satisfactory reference before starting the role.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
About St. Michael’s Hospice
St. Michael’s Hospice is a registered charity providing specialist palliative and end of life care services since 1992, for the people of North Hampshire. We are dedicated to providing care to people throughout North Hampshire who are affected by life limiting illness to attain the highest possible quality of life by providing a choice of specialist care and support.
As a charity, we depend on the kindness and support of our local community to continue offering our services free of charge. This care is made possible by supporters donating, taking part in fundraising events and activities, playing our lottery, shopping in our retail outlets, leaving gifts in their Wills or giving freely of their time to volunteer.
Our benefits
We offer a competitive salary with attractive benefits, including, free parking, life assurance, 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and an extensive health and wellbeing plan and company pension.
Contact
For further information and to arrange informal visits, please contact Colin Tanner, Retail Business Manager, on 01256 844744 or email: [email protected]
In the event of a large number of applicants, St. Michael’s Hospice reserves the right to close a job vacancy advertisement earlier than indicated.
We do appreciate every application that we receive for our job vacancies, however, due to our limited resources, we regret that we are not always able to advise every candidate if they have not been shortlisted. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the advert’s closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
Closing date: 31st July 2026
Interview date: TBC
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: £24,853.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
Work Location: In person
