Charity Shop Manager

Closing Date: 18th February 2025

Role: Charity Shop Manager
Hours:  37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £25,520 – £27,033 per annum
Closing date: 18/02/2025

Wigan & Leigh Hospice is a wonderful place to work. Our staff are our greatest asset providing the very highest standard of care. All our teams are all part of the Hospice team: working together to make the Hospice the best it can be. We have achieved Outstanding in the last CQC inspection. Our values: Compassion, Accessibility, Respect, Excellence, are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to offer a wide range of benefits, including:

  • A warm and welcoming working environment,
  • 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays (increasing with length of service),
  • Contributary pension scheme,
  • Free car parking,
  • Subsidised lunches,
  • Cycle to Work Scheme,
  • Shopping, leisure and holiday discounts,
  • On demand GP,
  • Westfield Health – Health Cash Plan,
  • Life Assurance,
  • A range of Wellbeing initiatives.

The available role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our busy Retail team as a Shop Manager.

As a Shop Manager you will lead a team of volunteers to maximise the potential of our newly refurbished Golborne shop – generating much needed funds which will be used to provide palliative and end of life care to people living in the Wigan Borough. This is a chance to make a real and meaningful difference in a charity that is very much rooted in this community.

Hours:  37.5 hours per week (typical working hours are 08.30am – 16.30pm, Monday to Friday) on a salary of £25,520 – £27,033 per annum. This role will involve working Saturdays, with a day off during the week. There may occasionally be a requirement to work hours outside of your normal working week.

Please look at the Person Specification included in the Job Description for the role requirements, qualifications and experience, skills and abilities, personal qualities and attributes.

This role is mainly based at 63 High St, Golborne, Warrington WA3 3BJ, however you will be  asked to travel to the Hospice or between other hospice’s shops, therefore a full UK driving licence and access to a car insured for business use is essential.

How to apply
Applicants should submit an up-to-date CV with a supporting statement setting out how you meet the criteria for the role to hr@wlh.org.uk

If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, this will mean you have been unsuccessful this time.

Successful appointments will be subject to Standard Disclosure and Barring Services Check (DBS) check.

About us
Wigan and Leigh Hospice is a well-established charity which has been operating since 1983. We provide a wide range of palliative care services to people with advancing life-limiting illnesses of any diagnosis and to those people important to them. The support we offer is tailored to meet individuals’ physical, social, spiritual and emotional needs.

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