Assistant Manager - Brighton Hill
Assistant Manager - Brighton Hill
Job details
Closing date:
What are we looking for?
Are you a dedicated, reliable, and hard-working individual with a passion for customer service? We have an exciting opportunity for you to become an Assistant Store Manager at our Brighton Hill store! This is more than just a retail job—it’s a chance to contribute to a meaningful cause, helping raise vital funds for St. Michael’s Hospice.
As Assistant Store Manager, you'll play a key role in providing exceptional service to both our customers and donors. Whether you're helping customers find the perfect item, supporting our team of volunteers, or ensuring the store is running smoothly, your contribution will directly support the vital work we do at the Hospice.
The role
Working closely with the Store Manager, you’ll help ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the shop. You’ll provide hands-on direction, support volunteers, and help maintain high standards of presentation and customer service. This role will give you the opportunity to develop your retail management skills within a supportive environment.
About you
The ideal candidates will:
- Have proven retail experience (charity or commercial), ideally with some supervisory or management experience or can demonstrate transferable skills.
- Be passionate about delivering excellent customer service.
- Have a keen eye for visual merchandising and take pride in creating attractive shop displays.
- Be confident, organised, and adaptable.
- Enjoy working with and motivating volunteers.
Be able to work flexibly, including some weekends and bank holiday.
St. Michael’s Hospice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undergo relevant background checks, including a DBS check and provide satisfactory reference before starting the role.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
About St. Michael’s Hospice
St. Michael’s Hospice is a registered charity providing specialist palliative and end of life care services since 1992, for the people of North Hampshire. We are dedicated to providing care to people throughout North Hampshire who are affected by life limiting illness to attain the highest possible quality of life by providing a choice of specialist care and support.
As a charity, we depend on the kindness and support of our local community to continue offering our services free of charge. This care is made possible by supporters donating, taking part in fundraising events and activities, playing our lottery, shopping in our retail outlets, leaving gifts in their Wills or giving freely of their time to volunteer.
Our benefits
We offer a competitive salary with attractive benefits, including, free parking, life assurance, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and an extensive health and wellbeing plan and company pension.
Contact
For further information and to arrange informal visits, please contact Janice Paige, on 01256 844744 or email:
Janice.paige@stmichaelshospice.org.uk.Please note that if you have applied for this role or a similar position with St. Michael's Hospice within the last 6 months and were unsuccessful, we kindly ask that you do not reapply at this time.
In the event of a large number of applicants, St. Michael’s Hospice reserves the right to close a job vacancy advertisement earlier than indicated.
We do appreciate every application that we receive for our job vacancies, however, due to our limited resources, we regret that we are not always able to advise every candidate if they have not been shortlisted. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the advert’s closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
Closing date: 31 July 2026
Interview date: 07 August 2026