Assistant Shop Manager - Lyons Farm SHG0127

• Location
• Worthing
• Vacancy Type
• Part Time/Permanent
• Pay Range
• £24,570 Pro rata for part time roles
• Contracted Hours
• 22.5 hours per week
• Application Deadline
• Monday, October 27, 2025
• Job Profile
• Job Profile document
  
  
• Job Summary
• About the role

  Southern Hospice Group offers specialist palliative care through three hospices: Martlets adult hospice in Hove, St Barnabas House adult hospice in Worthing and Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice near Arundel in Sussex. Our Shops and Distribution Centres provide one of our most important revenue streams and offer quality items and a friendly service. As an Assistant Manager, it will be helpful if you have retail and customer service skills, although full training will be given.

  Essential criteria

  Using people skills to help deliver income to the hospice.

  Helping to give excellent customer service

  Assisting in managing a team of staff and volunteers

  Stock control, promoting and capturing Gift Aid, daily cash handling and banking

  Ensuring the staff, volunteers, the shop and the site are safe and secure

  You will be energetic and love variety and keeping our shop commercial and appealing

  You will have responsibility for all aspects of the business in the absence of the manager after full induction training

  About us

  Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

  St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

  Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

  Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

  We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

  Benefits
  • Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
  • Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
  • On-site education support and study leave opportunities
  • Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
  • Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
  • Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Death in Service

  Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.