Vacancies

Job Description: Shop Assistant (Part Time and Full Time)

Hours: Vary.  There is a 30 minute paid lunchbreak on each day on shifts over 6 hours and a 20 minute paid break on each day on shifts under 6 hours.

Wages: £9 per hour.

Probation Period: New employees will, on completion of a satisfactory probationary period (13 weeks), be offered a permanent contract.

Duties:

• To serve customers at the till.
• To help customers with their enquiries.
• Cleaning.
• Maintaining a Covid-secure workplace.
• Preparing recycling and waste for collection.
• Receiving deliveries.
• Shelf Stocking.
• Pricing Products.
• Cash handling and reporting.
• Key holding.
• Opening and closing shop.
• Data entry
• In addition to processing customer sales, orders and loyalty transactions, shop assistants receiving deliveries need to input the delivery details into the purchase orders section of the EPOS system and correcting stock levels when seen to be inaccurate.
• Any other task as agreed with a manager that may from time-to-time be needed to deliver the Indigo Wholefoods service.
• To undertake relevant training.

Reports to:

• Directors
• George Howell
• Anita Aggarwal

Person Specification: Shop Assistant (Part Time and Full Time)

The successful candidate needs to be able to demonstrate:

1. Good customer service skills.
2. Basic understanding of good shop stewardship: Cleanliness, stocking, rotation etc
3. Good communication skills, particularly in dealing with customers, colleagues, and in receiving instructions from directors and reporting back to directors.
4. Self-motivation and attention to detail in completing all assigned tasks comprehensively. 
5. The ability to and confidence to work alone on site when necessary, with telephone, video call and email support from a manager.
6. The ability to undertake personal risk assessments, recognise hazards, limit risk and avoid risk where appropriate.
7. Basic numeracy skills.
8. Basic computer skills.
9. A willingness to undertake relevant training.
10.  An understanding of and sympathy with the ethics & principles of Indigo Wholefoods (beneficial, not essential.)