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We're looking for Kind, proactive and resilient Service Managers to join our Mental Health service in Croydon.
£46,852.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week.
Want to feel like you have an exciting future? You'll feel at home here.
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.
Our benefits include:
* Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
* Free DBS
* Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card
* Fully paid induction programme and further training
* ILM courses and Apprenticeship Programmes
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme for 24-7 confidential support
* Online wellbeing resources
* A generous pension - we will contribute up to 4% and life assurance cover up to £10,000 (T&Cs apply)
* Quarterly Staff Awards to reward & recognise our amazing staff's commitment and contribution
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.
What you'll do:
* Drive business planning activities within your contract, ensuring relevant and challenging objective setting and ongoing performance tracking, developing turn around action plans as may be necessary
* Using sound financial and accounting principles, manage contract budgets to deliver on corporate and local contract financial targets
* Successfully lead and motivate your team to ensure the championing of and maintenance of a positive local culture within your service
* Work to continuously improve staff competence, ensure ownership of all staff issues and speedy and effective conflict resolution
* Responsible for reporting all staff changes to HR and Payroll departments, as appropriate e.g. starters, leavers, additional hours etc.
* Responsible for maintaining quarterly staff succession plans
* Deliver effective, professional and commercially focused briefings and supervision meetings with staff and ensure that information, reporting & communications flow up/down is effective
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead
About you:
* Ability to lead and motivate staff to deliver excellent services
* Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
* Has a practical and logical mind
* Excellent organisation skills
* Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
* Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
* Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication
* Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
* Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour
What you'll bring:
Essential:
* Educated to degree level or equivalent
* Experience of managing contracts and resources and delivering to budget and performance targets
* Experience of effectively managing and developing staff to ensure delivery of services performance targets within contract
* Experience of successfully managing external partnerships to ensure successful delivery of services
* Holds relevant CMI/NVQ Level 4 or other Business/Management Qualification
Desirable:
* Other relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications
About us:
Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 100 services, providing support to thousands of customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness and complex needs, young people and care leavers and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.
We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:
We focus on Excellence and innovation.
We are Caring and Compassionate.
We are Inclusive and Trusted.
We work in Partnership and are One-Team.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
Please see our website for full Job description
The role
You will be responsible for the development and delivery of our Community Services; ensuring they
deliver against our strategic ambitions. Working with our Head of Home and Hospital and Head of
Information and Advice you will also ensure effective integration between service areas, and that our
people are consistently led and managed.
Background to the role
The post has been vacant since October, since then we’ve undertaken a review of our community team
and our current community delivery – it’s important we get these things right if we are to deliver our
ambitious strategy. By the time you begin in role there will be a clear plan for development which you will
lead on delivering.
This is a challenging and rewarding role; you’ll have expertise in the needs of older people as well as
experience of change management and of leading operations. You will be resilient and will have values
which align with ours: Kind, Accountable, Collaborative, Flexible and Inclusive. You’ll be an active
member of the senior leadership team, collaborating with colleagues on organisational development, and
culture. You'll be a confident networker, initiating and developing external relationships and networks
which will support and enhance our community services offer.
There will be a lot of opportunity to make your mark, deliver change and support a very willing and
enthusiastic team to develop together. We’ll expect a great deal of you but in return you’ll be well
supported, invested-in and given lots of opportunity to learn and grow as an organisational leader.
We are looking for people who understand the community we serve and are
therefore specifically looking for applicants who live in and/or have strong connections with
Hackney, Tower Hamlets or Newham. Additionally, we are determined to increase the diversity of
our senior team in line with our organisational EDI Objectives. For this reason, we are actively
seeking candidates from the Global Majority (all non-white ethnic groups, including Black, Asian,
and other groups previously labelled as "ethnic minorities" or ‘BAME’)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Can you make a real impact guiding individuals through their employment journey?
Employment Advisor
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full Time - 37 hours per week
Salary: Circa £26,049 per annum
Location: Carlisle/Workington
About Us
Groundwork NE & Cumbria is a long established environmental and community charity with over 30 years of experience creating greener, healthier and more resilient places across the region. Our mission centres on Creating Better Places, Improving People’s Prospects, and Promoting Greener Living, helping communities thrive no matter the challenges they face.
We deliver hundreds of locally led projects each year, including initiatives that support young people and adults into education, training and employment, helping them overcome barriers, build life skills, and reach their full potential.
About You and The Role
Join our dynamic Employment Team as a dedicated Employment Advisor, supporting individuals 1:1 on their journey into work, developing action plans, building skills, and driving positive outcomes in a fast-paced, community-focused environment.
Working as a member of the Employment Team you will engage on a 1:1 basis with our employment programme participants, establishing and maintaining excellent relationships to understand and meet their individual needs. You will develop personal action plans which enable movement of these people towards and into further sustainable employment. You will work in a friendly, busy employment team environment to ensure programme performance targets are consistently achieved to meet requirements of the allocated contract.
We want someone like you with the confidence to positively engage and motivate people from a wide range of backgrounds. In your role you will work closely with the local community and employers, supporting referrals onto the programme and identifying employment opportunities. You will enable participants to develop valuable work based skills and gain knowledge. Your role will require you to be supportive and understanding, be able to deal with any issues that may arise confidently. You will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to adapt them pending on what you are dealing with, communicating at different levels as key in this role.
Closing Date: Thursday 30th April 2026
Please note, should we receive a high volume of applications, we may look to close the role early, therefore we recommend an early application.
This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the Apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Make yourself at home
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
No agencies please.
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Enjoy variety and learning new things? Want to work for an organisation making a difference in our local community? Thrive in a busy environment?
Resourceful and solution-focused, you will contribute to a working environment which encourages teamwork, energy and creativity. You will use your excellent problem-solving and communication skills and be confident in taking responsibility for new tasks.
You’ll be digitally literate, numerate and happy dealing with members of the public.
The role will work cooperatively with colleagues at all levels of the organisation and closely with staff working in other back-office functions: CRM (Customer Relationship Management system– Salesforce), HR and volunteer management. A key relationship will be with our outsourced accounting provider.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title:
Head of Retail
Reporting To:
Director of Operations & People
Salary:
£50,000 per annum (pro rata)
Hours:
37.5 hours per week
Part-time / flexible working arrangements will be considered
Duration:
Fixed Term – 6 months
Location:
Alder Hey Children’s Charity (Old Swan & Huyton shops), Liverpool
Job Purpose
The Head of Retail will provide strategic leadership and expert insight to review, strengthen and evolve Alder Hey Children’s Charity’s retail operation during a six-month period of strategic development.
Working closely with the Director of Operations & People, the postholder will undertake a comprehensive review of the charity’s retail portfolio, identifying opportunities to maximise income, improve operational effectiveness and enhance supporter engagement.
The role will assess the current retail model, including shop performance, operational structures, processes and growth opportunities, and develop clear recommendations and a practical roadmap for the future development of retail income at Alder Hey Children’s Charity.
This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong commercial insight, charity retail expertise and the ability to translate analysis into actionable plans that will support the charity’s long-term income growth and sustainability.
Main Duties / Tasks
Strategic Review and Development
Lead a comprehensive strategic review of Alder Hey Children’s Charity’s retail operations, including shop performance, operational structure, systems and processes
Assess the current retail model to identify opportunities for income growth, efficiency improvements and enhanced supporter engagement
Benchmark retail performance against charity sector best practice and comparable retail operations
Develop strategic recommendations and a clear roadmap to strengthen long-term sustainability and growth
Retail Performance and Commercial Insight
Analyse financial performance, sales data, stock flow and operational costs across the retail portfolio
Identify opportunities to improve profitability, operational efficiency and customer experience
Review pricing, merchandising, stock management and donation processes to optimise retail income
Provide clear insights and reporting to inform strategic decision-making by the senior leadership team
Operational Improvement
Review existing retail processes, structures and ways of working to identify improvements
Introduce practical operational improvements during the contract period where appropriate
Ensure compliance with best practice in Gift Aid, health and safety and charity retail standards
Future Growth Opportunities
Identify opportunities for growth, innovation or diversification, including new retail formats or channels
Assess opportunities to strengthen community engagement and donation generation
Support development of a longer-term retail strategy aligned to wider income generation ambitions
Leadership and Collaboration
Provide leadership and support to the retail team, fostering a positive and collaborative culture
Work closely with fundraising, marketing and operations teams to integrate retail into wider strategy
Build strong relationships with volunteers, supporters and key stakeholders
Reporting and Strategic Recommendations
Provide regular updates to senior leadership on findings, opportunities and progress
Deliver a final strategic report with key findings, recommendations and a clear action plan
Other Duties
Act as an ambassador for Alder Hey Children’s Charity in line with organisational values
Contribute positively as part of the wider team, including supporting fundraising events where required
Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by your line manager
Person Specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential:
Significant experience in retail leadership, ideally within a multi-site or charity retail environment
Proven experience delivering retail strategies that drive income growth
Experience managing budgets and financial performance
Experience leading and developing teams, including volunteers
Strong understanding of retail operations (stock, merchandising, customer experience)
Experience analysing performance data to inform decision-making
Experience working within charity retail
Desirable:
Experience reviewing or transforming retail operations
Experience developing ecommerce or digital retail channels
Skills and Attributes
Essential:
Commitment to equality, diversity and collaborative working
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Strong relationship-building skills
Ability to analyse data and inform strategic decisions
Self-motivated with a positive attitude in a fast-paced environment
Strong organisational skills with ability to adapt to changing priorities
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
Understanding of confidentiality and data protection requirements
Strong IT skills, including Microsoft packages
Additional Requirements
Essential:
Strong interest in working for a children’s health charity
Commitment to the values of Alder Hey Children’s Charity
Willingness to support wider charity activities
Desirable:
Willingness to occasionally work outside normal office hours
Our Values
At Alder Hey Children’s Charity, our values guide how we work. Being courageous, working together, showing passion and embracing creativity enables us to support the hospital in delivering the very best care for young patients and their families.
Courage
We try new things, take risks and innovate. We speak up, take accountability and act with responsibility. We are unstoppable.
Together
We work as one team, sharing knowledge and learning. We partner with patients, families, supporters and colleagues. We respect, celebrate diversity and empower each other.
Passion
We are passionate about what we do and why we do it. We inspire others and grow together.
Magic
We are creative, fun and child-led. We create special moments and go the extra mile for our patients.
Additional Information
This job description outlines the general nature of the role and is not exhaustive. It may be subject to change in line with organisational needs.
Alder Hey Children’s Charity will make reasonable adjustments for applicants where required. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
The post holder will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure check.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Food Project Coordinator
This role will primarily coordinate our growing food club project, Bristol Goods, but will also provide support for our other services that utilize food to engage people in support and build community connections.
Caring in Bristol has a legacy of food-based projects; from our inception as Caring at Christmas, through to Cheers Drive, our pandemic response service. We have a fantastic network in the city’s food and hospitality sector which enables us to work in creative ways to alleviate housing insecurity.
As Food Project Coordinator, you will play a central role in organising our food club operations and ensuring Caring in Bristol upholds food safety standards. A significant part of the role will be centred around building relationships with our food club members and the volunteers that help deliver the service.
The postholder will also have the opportunity to contribute to other food-centred activity within the charity, including food provided to our young people’s services and Caring at Christmas.
Key responsibilities
The workload for the role is split in approximately the proportions:
~60% of the role
Food logistics and coordination
Support the Senior Project Coordinator to oversee the sourcing, supply and distribution of food, ensuring a consistent and balanced provision of fresh and ambient products for service users each week. This includes driving the Caring in Bristol van (full UK driving licence essential).
Coordinate and monitor the stock of food, ensuring there’s always sufficient stock levels to cover all the food clubs
Coordinate the weekly Fareshare delivery and sorting/preparation of food in line with organisational procedures
Support the Bristol Goods Team to uphold food safety management within the organisation, ensuring our warehouse space is adequately clean and organised at all times
Manage Bristol Goods volunteers on shift to ensure they understand how to carry out their role safely, and enjoy their experience
Supervise the on-site running of the food clubs on a Rota basis with other Caring in Bristol staff. This does involve cash handling and taking payments.
Support Senior Project Coordinator to form working relationships with our food suppliers and food sector contacts, and seek out potential new opportunities that could benefit the resilience and breadth of Caring in Bristol’s food offer
Supporting the delivery of our other food projects including Bristol Youth Goods.
Follow organisational safeguarding, health and safety, data protection, COSSH and van procedures.
~30% of the role
Food Club Member Support
Interact with members and signpost them to relevant services within Caring in Bristol, in the local community, and city wide.
Keep up to date with support services across the city to provide appropriate signposting and referrals.
Provide support and build relationships with Food Club members through informal check-ins and identify those who may be experiencing challenges impacting their housing or wellbeing. Provide appropriate assistance, including but not limited to, form filling, applying to external volunteering opportunities or training and referring to additional services.
Uphold the safety and safeguarding of members in the delivery and development of the Bristol Goods service.
Record members’ attendance, support provided and engagement on our database in line with data protection policies and regulations.
Take ownership of our community noticeboard, sharing opportunities and support options in the area.
~10% of the role
Other Responsibilities
Organisational development work, including; attendance at team meetings, safeguarding reviews and participating in the volunteer support and training.
Follow Caring in Bristol policies and procedures and observe our Code of Conduct.
Actively participate in and attend supervisions, reflective practice, annual appraisal processes and identified training.
Promote the aims and objectives of the charity and present a positive image of Caring in Bristol through good public relations, communications with visitors, young people, guests, people who use our services and the local community.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you an experienced retailer looking for a great place to reach your full potential?
We are looking for a commercially minded Assistant Store Manager to support with the management of staff, stock and premises at our charity shop. This is a part time role, working 22.5 hours per week.
What does this role do?
As Assistant Store Manager, you'll:
Could this be you?
To be successful in this role, you'll need significant retail experience, with the ability to motivate a team, deliver outstanding customer service and drive sales through commercial awareness.
About Dogs Trust
We love dogs. That’s why we do whatever we can to make sure every four-legged friend gets the love they deserve. We’ll never put a healthy dog down, so our work is focused on helping dogs in need, supporting owners every step of the walk, and creating a better world for dogs in the future. It’s what we’ve been doing since 1891 and how we’ve grown to become the UK’s leading dog charity, helping 12,000 loyal friends find their forever homes every year.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for an inspiring Support Services Manager to lead our supported housing schemes, ensuring high‑quality, person‑centred support for women and children across our services.
If you are passionate about transforming lives, improving service quality and leading dedicated teams — we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role
As Support Services Manager, you will:
Lead and develop high‑quality support services
Manage, motivate and develop staff
Champion safeguarding & risk management
Ensure housing & compliance excellence
Build impactful partnerships
Drive quality, governance & reporting
Manage budgets & resources
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
Essential experience & skills
Desirable
About Life:
Life is a national pregnancy support charity that helps over 60,000 people a year. Through our services, we help people – whoever they are – to meet pregnancy or pregnancy loss with courage and dignity so they can flourish.
Our services include:
Our values :
All our work is underpinned by the following universal human values:
Information about the role:
For further information, please see the attached job description.
Salary: £34,000 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week over 5 days
Location: Home Based with Extensive Travel across the Midlands and South East England
Benefits:
At Life we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training, we offer our:
Safeguarding and Equality:
Life is committed to protecting all staff, volunteers and service users from harm of any kind. Life expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and equality within our organisation by encouraging applications from all backgrounds.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. Life takes its obligation to protect the rights of children and vulnerable people very seriously; therefore, the successful candidate for this post will be also subject to extensive background checking, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) which is paid for by the Charity.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Would you like to work for a leading mental health charity?
Do you want a rewarding career where you can make a real difference to someone’s life?
If yes, join us here at Rethink Mental Illness.
We have exciting opportunity at our Coventry & Warwickshire IPS Employment service, where you will join our friendly and inspiring team as a IPS Employment Specialist. Your role will be a permanent position working,
37.5 hours per week field-based role.
Role will be based in the community of South Warwickshire
A good working local knowledge of all areas of South Warwickshire would of be ideal.
You will be integrated into the NHS to provide employment support for people experiencing severe mental illness with the aim of gaining employment. You will attend 6 meetings per week with local employers to build relationships and engage them regarding our service, in the above locations.
In addition, you will meet your clients each week to provide them with face-to-face support. Key to this role will also be to undertake administration duties such as producing letters, spreadsheets, and keeping various systems up to date. As part of the role, you will receive System 1 training from the NHS which will be made up of a series of 10 online sessions and a final assessment.
You will also be expected to operate Rethinks internal CRM systems on a daily basis, full training will be provided.
Who are we?
We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”
In everything we do, we seek to demonstrate our values: Passion, Commitment, Openness, Hope, Expertise and understanding. If these values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you.
What will you be doing?
Do you have what we are looking for?
As you will be working within the community, we do need you to hold a full UK driving licence.
What will you receive?
You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development and a range e-learns. You will also receive:
Don’t just change jobs, change lives!
We’re Rethink Mental Illness and no matter how bad things are, we can help people severely affected by mental illness to improve their lives.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a hands-on role in growing commercial activity within one of London’s most iconic parks. You’ll support the development of sustainable income streams while helping to deliver a high-quality and accessible offer for everyone who visits.
Working closely with the Head of Commercial and Visitor Experience, you’ll manage relationships with commercial partners and concessions, oversee the day-to-day operation of the Visitor Centre retail offer, and support ticketing and membership activity. You’ll work collaboratively across teams to ensure activities are well coordinated, and align with the Trust’s wider ambitions.
You’ll be confident managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, with strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and good commercial awareness.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you a facilities professional who wants their work to genuinely matter? This is your chance to be the backbone of one of London's most impactful youth organisations — where the building you manage is the foundation for changing young lives.
Fight for Peace is looking for an exceptional Facilities Manager to take full ownership of our Academy in Royal Docks, East London — a vibrant, purpose-built space where young people aged 7–25 come to box, train, learn, and grow.
This isn't a role for someone who wants to sit behind a desk raising purchase orders. As our Facilities Manager, you'll be the person who makes the Academy hum, from keeping us legally compliant and structurally sound to leading capital projects, managing a network of contractors, and making sure every corner of the building reflects the ambition and energy of the community it serves.
You'll have real ownership. You'll have a say in the facilities budget, shape the annual maintenance plan, and play an active role in our team. When something needs doing, you'll have the authority and the trust to get it done.
What you'll be leading:
The Academy is a busy, multi-use space — and no two days are the same. You'll oversee everything from day-to-day maintenance and statutory compliance to major refurbishment projects (including an ongoing changing rooms development). You'll manage our cleaning team, oversee IT infrastructure, run our room hire offer, and work with the income generation team to grow commercial use of the space. Health and safety sits at the heart of this role — you'll be our lead on fire safety, EICR, legionella, asbestos, and everything in between, maintaining a compliance register that is always audit-ready.
Safeguarding is central to how we operate. You'll ensure the physical environment supports a safe and welcoming space for young people, and that every contractor who steps through our doors is properly vetted.
What we're looking for:
You'll bring solid, hands-on experience in facilities, estates, or building management — ideally in a community, education, or sports setting. You'll know your way around a PPM schedule, a compliance register, and a contractor negotiation. You'll be organised, dependable, and the kind of person who spots a problem before it becomes one.
Just as importantly, you'll believe in what we do. Fight for Peace was founded on the idea that every young person regardless of their background deserves the chance to fulfil their potential. The Facilities Manager plays a direct role in making that possible every single day.
The details:
A NEBOSH or IOSH qualification is desirable but not essential, we're more interested in what you've done than what's on paper. An enhanced DBS check will be required prior to appointment.
Fight for Peace is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
inspiring young people to reach their full potential and promoting peace in our communities
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Would you like to be part of a retail team that are community based, offer amazing choice and genuine sustainability?
Look no further – join us as a Sales Assistant in Penrith
This is a part time role working 28 hours a week in one of our busy clothing stores. Our stores are fast-paced and trade 7 days a week. This role requires flexibility to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
You’ll join the team on a 3-month fixed term contract.
What does this role involve?
As a Sales Assistant you’ll be at the very heart of our retail operation. This is not just a standing behind the till or filling shelves type of role, we’re looking for someone who will deliver a first class customer service experience. It’s a fun, fast-paced environment where no two days are the same and everyone works as a team.
Every day is different in charity retail, as well as working on the till or sorting donations, you can expect to:
Please note, this role can be physically demanding and will involve moving a high volume of donation bags.
You will be given lots of autonomy in your role and will strive to continually build your knowledge of BHF.
What are we looking for?
What’s important to us?
At the British Heart Foundation (BHF) we offer a huge range of new and used quality furniture, clothing, jewellery and more, available in store and online.
Since 1961, British Heart Foundation has been at the forefront of research that has helped to halve annual deaths from cardiovascular disease in the UK. But our work is needed more than ever.
In addition to raising funds for the BHF, we connect with our local communities and help reduce clothing and furniture waste across the UK. With over 700 stores we make a huge environmental impact by preventing around 70,000 tonnes of unwanted items going to landfill every year. We receive 1.6 million items donated to our home stores and 9.8 million bags of donated items and will continue to build upon our reuse agenda in the years to come.
Belonging at BHF
BHF values the diversity of our communities and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and valued. By fostering a culture of inclusion, we believe we are better equipped to achieve our mission of helping people have a healthier heart for longer.
Why join the BHF?
We have a strong culture of internal progression and will actively support you to develop your career.
Our generous staff benefits include:
Ready to apply?
To apply, please follow these simple steps:
What do I need to know?
Inclusivity Matters: We’re committed to fairness and consistency. As part of this commitment, we use anonymous CV software during the application process
Act Swiftly: Early applications are encouraged. We’ll be reviewing submissions throughout the advertising period and may close the advert early
Sponsorship: Please note that we are unlikely to be able to sponsor applicants in respect of this role due to the role not meeting the minimum salary criteria to be eligible for sponsorship.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact a member of the Recruitment team.
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the role
At some point in our lives, we or someone we love will need hospital care. At UHCW Charity, we’re here to make those moments better - funding the extras that go beyond NHS provision, from life-saving equipment and pioneering research to more comfortable, welcoming spaces and support for patients, families and staff when they need it most.
We’re looking for a Fundraising Assistant to support the delivery of our fundraising activity and help ensure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. This is a varied, hands-on role where no two days are the same, from supporting events and coordinating fundraising materials to managing data and providing excellent supporter care.
You’ll work closely with the Fundraising & Events Lead and wider team, playing a key role in delivering a positive experience for our supporters and helping us grow income across the charity.
What you’ll be doing
Supporting the delivery of fundraising activity across events, community, corporate and individual giving
Assisting with event preparation, logistics, registrations and supporter communications
Preparing fundraising packs, materials and resources for supporters
Responding to enquiries and ensuring a friendly, professional supporter experience
Maintaining accurate records on our CRM (Beacon) and supporting income processing
Coordinating thank you communications, certificates and stewardship activity
Supporting volunteer coordination and engagement
Assisting with basic prospect research and identifying fundraising opportunities
Supporting social media content and fundraising communications where needed
About you
This role would suit someone who is organised, proactive and keen to build a career in fundraising. You might already have experience in an administrative, customer service or charity role, or be looking for your first step into the sector.
You’ll bring:
Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
Excellent communication skills and a friendly, approachable manner
The ability to manage multiple tasks and work to deadlines
Confidence using IT systems and databases (or willingness to learn)
A genuine interest in fundraising and making a difference
Most importantly, you’ll be someone who takes pride in their work and enjoys being part of a supportive, collaborative team.
Why join us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience across a wide range of fundraising activity within a busy and supportive NHS charity. You’ll develop valuable skills, build relationships and play a part in work that has a real and lasting impact on patients, families and staff.
We offer:
27 days annual leave plus public holidays
Pension scheme with matched contributions up to 7%
Blue Light Card discounts
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunities for training and development
Join us and help make a real difference for patients, families and staff across Coventry and Warwickshire.
UHCW Charity enhances NHS care by funding equipment, research and better spaces, improving experiences for patients and families.
The Information & Advice Service is highly regarded within the London Borough of Merton and accredited with the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) and Age UK Quality Advice Standard (QAS). We have developed the service over the last five years to provide high quality advice for older people to enable them to live more healthily, happily and independently in later life.
In April 2025 – March 2026 the service worked with over 1,500 older adults across a range of issues including money and benefits, health, housing and care. During this time, we assisted older adults to generate over £820,535 of previously unclaimed benefits and make informed choices about their lives.
The role involves providing initial information and guidance, primarily over the phone, assessing need and urgency, and ensuring clients are directed to the most appropriate support.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.