We are now looking for a Deputy Superstore Manager to support the Pershore Shop Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving set targets and maintaining standards. You’ll work 22.5 hours per week, including some weekend working.
About the Role
Acorns Children's Hospice are a children's charity, offering specialist palliative nursing care and support for local children and their families. Every year, we support over 750 children and nearly 1,000 families, including those who are bereaved. We have a network of charity shops across the West Midlands and Gloucestershire, which help to provide the funding that we need to provide this care.
As Deputy Community Superstore Manager, you will:
- Support the Shop Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
- Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
- Lead a team of volunteers
- Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid
Click here to see inside one of our Acorns shops
About You
- Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
- Ability to lead and motivate a team
- IT skills
- Happy to work weekends
- Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
- Ability to travel independently to cover shops in the area if needed
We want our Shop Managers to firmly embed their shop into the fabric of the local community by being proactive in assessing opportunities within the community for the shop to get involved in, so ideally you’ll be based in the local area.
What We Offer
- £25,477.50 per annum (pro rata)
- 22.5 hours per week
- Employee discounts from leading retailers
- Employee gym discount scheme
- Bike-to-Work scheme
- Generous contribution to group personal pension plan
- Acorns group life assurance scheme
You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be asked to provide two satisfactory references.
As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.
If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk
Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?
Part Time
Pershore
Retail
Acorns Children's Hospice are now looking for a Retail Assistant Manager to support our Chelmsley Wood Superstore Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving set targets and maintaining standards. You’ll work 15 hours per week, including some weekend working.
About the Role
Acorns Children's Hospice are a children's charity, offering specialist palliative nursing care and support for local children and their families. Every year, we support over 750 children and nearly 1,000 families, including those who are bereaved. We have a network of charity shops across the West Midlands and Gloucestershire, which help to provide the funding that we need to provide this care.
As Deputy Community Superstore Manager, you will:
- Support the Superstore Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
- Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
- Manage processes for the effective collection, delivery and processing of goods associated with the superstore
- Provide inspired leadership and motivation for a team of volunteers, maximising the potential of every individual by understanding their skills and experiences and utilising them to reach their full potential
- Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid, taking an entrepreneurial approach to generating income
- Represent Acorns in the community
About You
- Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
- Ability to lead and motivate a team
- IT skills
- Happy to work weekends
- Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
What We Offer
- £25,155 per annum (pro rata) / £12.90 per hour
- 15 hours per week - over two days
- Based in Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre B37 5TP
- Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
- Discounts on refurbished tech
- Eye Test discount
- Health cash plan
- Gym membership and equipment discount scheme
- Time off to volunteer
- Bike2Work scheme - save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
- Wellbeing, legal and financial support
- Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
- NHS pension scheme life assurance or Acorns group life assurance scheme
You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be asked to provide two satisfactory references.
As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.
If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk
Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?
Part Time
Chelmsley Wood
Retail
Sunday 28th of December 2025
Acorns Children's Hospice Trust are looking for a Children's Palliative Nurse Specialist to join our Three Counties Hospice, Worcester. Using your specialist clinical knowledge, you will assess the care needs and development of life-limited and life-threatened children and provide holistic care. You will facilitate and participate in the provision of palliative care training and research relevant to the development and delivery of the service.
About the Role
Acorns provides care for babies, children and young people, who have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Our Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialists are part of a supportive, multi-disciplinary team delivering care packages that are tailored to each child’s individual holistic needs – and we’re structured so that you’ll simply ‘have the time to care’.
As a Children's Palliative Nurse Specialist, you will:
- Holistically assess the situation and needs of children with life limiting conditions, inclusive of family needs
- Provide symptom management and end-of-life care/after-death care to children and young people with a range of complex health needs
- Provide psychological support to parents of life-limited children
- Work in partnership with children, families and carers to provide optimum outcomes for each child by acknowledging individual preferences and lifestyles.
- Work collaboratively with initiating, planning and facilitating multi-disciplinary discharge and care planning meetings.
- In the absence of the Clinical Lead, actively manage the service dealing with sickness and operational issues as they arise.
- Participate in the on-call rota to provide telephone clinical support, out of hours, across Acorns hospice sites and community team(s).
- Initiate and participate in research and audit relevant to development and delivery of the service.
- Facilitate and participate in the provision of training regarding palliative care for all grades of staff within and outside the service to ensure knowledge and skills are achieved to fulfil roles.
About You
- Registered nurse
- Non-Medical Prescribing (or willing to undertake)
- Demonstrable relevant experience in palliative care
- Clinical leadership skills
- Ability to solve problems acquiring and utilising information from diverse sources to identify problems, solutions evaluating and recommending and implementing actions
What We Offer
- £41,500 to £45,000 per annum
- 37.5 hours per week (3 x 12.5 hour shifts)
- Based in the Three Counties Hospice, Worcester (WR5 3EZ)
- Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
- Discounts on refurbished tech
- Eye Test discount
- Health cash plan
- Gym membership and equipment discount scheme
- Bike2Work scheme - save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
- Wellbeing, legal and financial support
- Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
- NHS pension scheme life assurance or Acorns group life assurance scheme
You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for children and will be asked to provide two satisfactory references. In addition, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of immunisation against specific diseases or confirm their willingness to receive the necessary vaccinations.
As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.
If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk
Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?
Full Time
Worcester
Clinical Care
Sunday 4th of January 2026
We are now looking for a Deputy Shop Manager to support the Moreton Shop Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving set targets and maintaining standards. You’ll work 22.5 hours per week, including some weekend working.
About the Role
Acorns Children's Hospice are a children's charity, offering specialist palliative nursing care and support for local children and their families. Every year, we support over 750 children and nearly 1,000 families, including those who are bereaved. We have a network of charity shops across the West Midlands and Gloucestershire, which help to provide the funding that we need to provide this care.
As Deputy Community Shop Manager, you will:
- Support the Shop Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
- Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
- Lead a team of volunteers
- Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid
Click here to see inside one of our Acorns shops
About You
- Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
- Ability to lead and motivate a team
- IT skills
- Happy to work weekends
- Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
- Ability to travel independently to cover shops in the area if needed
We want our Shop Managers to firmly embed their shop into the fabric of the local community by being proactive in assessing opportunities within the community for the shop to get involved in, so ideally you’ll be based in the local area.
What We Offer
- £14,859.00 per annum (pro rata)/ £12.70 per hour
- 22.5 hours per week
- Based in Moreton (GL56 0AF)
- Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
- Discounts on refurbished tech
- Eye Test discount
- Health cash plan
- Gym membership and equipment discount scheme
- Time off to volunteer
- Bike2Work scheme - save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
- Wellbeing, legal and financial support
- Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
- NHS pension scheme life assurance or Acorns group life assurance scheme
You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be asked to provide two satisfactory references.
As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.
If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk
Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?
Part Time
Moreton in Marsh
Retail
Wednesday 7th of January 2026