About us:
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.
We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.
We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.
The Role:
Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid’s Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment.
We are looking for a Shop Manager to work 37.5 hours a week in our Heathfield location. The role is to manage a retail shop, while developing and growing income opportunities, achieve budgeted income, maximise sales by effective merchandising, providing excellent customer service and engaging local community to support the work of the hospice. The role also includes managing a team of volunteers and in some cases a deputy manager.
Benefits included:
We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
Discounted cinema tickets
Employee assistance programmes
Additional training opportunities
Supportive working environment
(Please review/delete as appropriate) We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; part time hours and working between the office and home. (Please review/delete as appropriate)
(Please review/delete as appropriate) We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; various shift patterns and part time hours. (Please review/delete as appropriate)
If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team on 01323 434209 or email recruitment@stwhospice.org
If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Jackie Gordon on 07595 207389.
Please note that CV’s will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability.
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
