Driver/Depot Assistant

Vacancy at The Felix Project

Driver/Depot Assistant - Merseyside

Salary £ 24,479

Merseyside

Details

• The Felix Project can only employ applicants who currently have the right to work in the UK.
• A full UK Driving Licence (with no more than 6 points) held for at least 1 year over age 21 for insurance purposes.
• As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do ask questions regarding unspent criminal records.

The Felix Project and FareShare have recently merged to form the UK's largest food redistribution charity. Its vision is a UK where good food is never wasted, and nobody goes hungry. 

The organisation rescues high quality edible surplus food, from across the food industry and gets it to over 8,000 organisations across the UK who are working to strengthen communities and improve lives. 

The charity manages seven depots across London, Suffolk, Merseyside and Hampshire and works with 16 network partners who operate a further 26 regional depots across the UK. 

Over the next year our ambition is to rescue enough food nationally to provide nearly 200 million meals, turning an environmental problem into social good with measurable impact for people, planet, and the economy.

This role is about more than just driving it is about sharing FareShare Merseyside’s mission that” no good food should go to waste”.

As a collection & delivery driver for FareShare Merseyside you will deliver / collect food from our partners across the region.  You will be the face of FareShare Merseyside, being a regular point of contact with our local and diverse range of member charities

receiving food.  In addition, you may also act as a host for volunteers who may join as van assistants.

Like the supply of surplus food to FareShare no two shifts are the same. Every day new food arrives, and your team will include new people who want to get involved in the FareShare mission. You will be part of a small staff team responsible for ensuring the safe and effective distribution of food each day.

As a van driver:

• Load the van and check the van for roadworthiness
• Understand the schedule and route that has been planned
• and calculated for you
• Have a smart clean appearance, ready to meet our food partners and charities
• Support warehouse staff with any other duties required

On the road you will be representing FareShare Merseyside:

• Drive safely, responsibly and within the law
• Be courteous to all road users

In the van you may be joined by volunteers wanting to support the FareShare Merseyside team to ensure no good food goes to waste:

• Get to know your van team and respond to questions about FareShare
• Be courteous and demonstrate FareShare’s equality and diversity policy
• Take responsibility for the safety of volunteers who join you

At our food partners and charities:

• Greet the food partner or charity with a smile and get to know them by name
• Take care of the food you are collecting or delivering as if it were your own
• Complete all relevant paperwork and checks to ensure the safety of the food

On return to FareShare Merseyside:

• Unload and clean the van ready for the next driver
• Report any incidents that may affect the vans roadworthiness
• Complete all paperwork relevant to the food collected or delivered
• Support warehouse staff with any other duties required

• Get to know your team and respond to questions about FareShare’s mission, the food partners who support us, charities who receive food and the planned activities for the day
• Work as a team with the Warehouse Manager, warehouse colleagues and volunteers to ensure all shifts are well planned, supervised and meet daily operational needS
• Ensure compliance with all FareShare policies and procedures and industry standards as required by food partners and regulators and that all staff, volunteers, food suppliers, charities and visitors adhere to them
• Support the Warehouse Manager in managing the office, responding to emails and taking phone calls
• Support the Warehouse Manager in organising food distribution using the FareShare food management systems and training volunteers as required
• Maintain excellent relations and communications with volunteers, staff, food suppliers and charities

• Experience of driving vans / medium sized vehicles
• Experience of multi-drop deliveries
• Experience of working within a food distribution and/or warehousing operation
• Experience of using Sat Nav to navigate & plan routes
• Experience of working on own initiative, able to manage own workload and prioritise tasks to meet objective
• Experience of working in a team with evidence of demonstrating a flexible approach to team working
• Safe and courteous driver

Due to the anticipated large number of applicants, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of your application, we regret to inform you that your application has been unsuccessful. Consequently, will not be able to provide feedback.