Deputy Community Shop Manager at Acorns Childrens Charity in Worcester

Acorns Children's Hospice are a children's charity, offering specialist palliative nursing care and support for local children and their families. Every year, we support over 750 children and nearly 1,000 families, including those who are bereaved. We have a network of charity shops across the West Midlands and Gloucestershire, which help to provide the funding that we need to provide this care.

As Deputy Community Shop Manager, you will:

Support the Shop Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
Lead a team of volunteers
Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid

Click here to see inside one of our Acorns shops

About You

Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
Ability to lead and motivate a team
IT skills
Happy to work weekends
Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
Ability to travel independently to cover shops in the area if needed

We want our Shop Managers to firmly embed their shop into the fabric of the local community by being proactive in assessing opportunities within the community for the shop to get involved in, so ideally you’ll be based in the local area.

What We Offer

£26,422.50 per annum (pro rata)
15 hours per week (2 days Mon- Sun)
Based in St Peters
Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
Discounts on refurbished tech
Eye Test discount
Health cash plan
Gym membership and equipment discount scheme
Time off to volunteer
Bike2Work scheme - save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
Wellbeing, legal and financial support
Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
NHS pension scheme life assurance or Acorns group life assurance scheme

You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be asked to provide two satisfactory references.

As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.

If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk

Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?