Furniture Store Driver Chesterfield, England
Job description
About the role
Hours: 15 hours per week, worked over two days, Monday-Sunday
Our Retail outlets provide 29% of much-needed income to the hospice. This is vital to be able to provide care to the people of Derbyshire. The hospice has 15 retail shops,1 furniture warehouse a Donation centre, 2 Clearance shops and 2 Coffee shops! We also have an online eBay/Amazon platform and an online furniture store, It’s a big operation! We are looking for a Furniture Store Driver to support our Hasland Furniture Store.
This job role is hard work, enormous fun, hugely satisfying and very fascinating. This is a job that doesn’t have that Monday morning feeling and you will go home feeling happy that you did a great job for an amazing charity! those who work for Ashgate Hospice are very proud to do so. If you think that you would like to be a part of our charity, then please apply.
The main responsibilities include:
- Delivering items to a room of the customer’s choice (when safe to do so) dismantling items and reassembling if required to ensure for a successful delivery.
- To ensure that the high standard of service to customers that is expected by the Ashgate Hospice shops is maintained at all times.
- To collect “New Goods” from suppliers around the country, delivering them safely to the Furniture Store.
To get full details on what the role includes please read the attached Job Description, call the recruiting manager for an informal chat and come and visit us.
About you:
You will be an integral member of the Furniture Store team supporting instore teams.
Skills and experience required:
- Previous experience of making deliveries.
- Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to adapt to different customer challenges.
- Ability to adapt to new work situations and use initiative to find solutions to work related problems.
About Ashgate:
Ashgate Hospice is a registered charity that provides compassionate, specialist palliative and end of life care, free of charge, to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families across North Derbyshire. Our values are at the heart of everything we do at Ashgate. They are grounded in our commitment to being the best we can be for our patients and the people who are important to them, and for each other. We are compassionate. We are a team. We are respectful, open and inclusive.
At Ashgate, you are part of a genuine and warm team that shares a desire to deliver great experiences to our customers. We celebrate Inclusion and equality; we advocate collaboration and transparency and believe our teams should bring their true selves to work
We’re committed to providing a happy, safe and supportive environment for all our people which is why nearly 4 out of 5 of our staff would recommend us as a place to work. We recognise the need to support our employees’ well-being including their work-life balance.
As a valued member of the team, you will have a wide range of training and development available to support your own personal, professional development, opening doors to new career pathways. For our current staff, these pathways have included becoming a Shop Manager and Cluster Support Co-ordinator
Please visit our website and social media accounts or listen to our podcast “The Life and Death Podcast” to get a feel for what it is like to be part of the Ashgate team and gain an understanding of the people we support.
Find out why our people think Ashgate Hospice is a special place to work.
Some of our current benefits include:
- A highly compassionate and supportive working environment
- A wide range of initiatives to support your wellbeing, and the time out to practice self-care
- Generous holiday entitlement
- A progressive approach to flexible working to help meet your and our needs
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Westfield Health Cash Plan includes free annual eye tests, dental checks and money back for a range of treatments and therapies
- Access to a free, confidential Employee Assistance Program
- Free access to Westfield Rewards, offering discounts from hundreds of retailers
- Pension scheme with 7% employer contribution
- Life assurance scheme
- Total commitment to your learning and development
What next:
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Kevin Brown via email or telephone or 01246 229536.
Please note we only accept applications via the ‘Apply now’ button on our website. Please do not send your application to HR or the recruiting manager.
Proposed interview date: TBC
Any candidate who identifies themselves as disabled will be shortlisted if they meet the essential criteria for the role. Essential criteria can be found in the job description and person specification for the role. If you require any accessibility adjustments, please contact a member of the HR team at or by calling 01246 568801
If successful, you will be required to have a DBS check carried as part of the conditional pre-employment checks. For more information, please refer to the candidate assistant notes.
As a healthcare provider, it is very important to us that our staff have the annual flu jab and are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. It is our expectation that all of our staff will have the vaccinations unless there are strong compelling reasons why not. We believe having the vaccination not only protects you but also helps us to keep our patients, staff and visitors safe.
Support available for candidates who identify themselves as disabled
You may wish to complete and share with us your health adjustment passport so that we are aware what support and/or reasonable adjustments you may require. Even if you choose not to share this with us, we encourage applicants to consider completing their passport for their own benefit. For more information in relation to this please visit. Health Adjustment Passport - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
You may also be able to get support from Access to Work which is an initiative run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to help you get or stay in work if you have a physical or mental health condition or disability. This may include support with the selection process. For more information in relation to Access to Work please visit. Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
