Furniture Van Driver
Furniture Van Drivers
We’re looking for reliable, friendly Furniture Van Drivers on a temporary basis to support our charity’s work across the local area. If you enjoy being out on the road, meeting people, and helping households in need, this role could be a great fit.
On a temporary 3 month fixed term basis, we are ideally looking for 2 people to work 15 hours each per week but we would consider 1 person for 30 hours for the right candidate, this would include a percentage of Saturdays.
What you’ll be doing
- Collecting donated furniture from homes and businesses
- Delivering items to our charity shops and to families we support
- Ensuring safe loading, unloading, and transport of goods
- Providing excellent customer service to both external and internal customers
- Working closely with our warehouse and retail teams
What we’re looking for
- A full, clean UK driving licence (experience with vans preferred)
- Due to our insurance conditions, you will need to be over the age of 25
- Someone physically able to lift and move furniture safely
- A positive, helpful attitude and good communication skills
- Reliability, punctuality, and respect for our charity’s values
- Ability to work well with volunteers and staff
We have over 30 charity sites across Norfolk & Suffolk which includes two retail centres in Ipswich along with a community coffee hub, a café and one Zest retail outlet. Other income is produced through our e-commerce sites, furniture operation and retail events.
St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our work is centred on an individual’s needs, which means specialist support, whenever and wherever it is needed, whether at home, in the community or at the hospice.
Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Last year the charity supported over 4,000 patients and their families..
In 2023, St Elizabeth Hospice merged with East Coast Hospice to form a collaborative approach to developing achievable and sustainable specialist palliative care services for people living the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.
St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.
For more details about this role please read the job description and person specification or contact Sam Cocksedge, Retail Area Manager Sam.Cocksedge@stelizabethhospice.org.uk