Van Driver

Get 'that-driving-and thriving' feeling.

Do you love being on the road, but you're looking for a meaningful destination?

We're looking for commercially minded, empowered individuals like you, who can motivate our customers and donors with great customer service, either inspiring them to give us their unwanted treasure, or reassuring them that they have made a great purchase from our shops. With a seven hundred square mile patch, you'll love being somewhere different every day and you'll be a proud representative of our values. Driving well, while being caring towards our customers, careful and quick on your feet.

Join our retail revolution and we'll provide you with not just a job, but a 'journey' in a team of like-minded individuals. Help us put the 'power into purchase' and inspire people to shop Dorothy House, funding end of life care, while putting colour and life into their wardrobes and homes!

VAN DRIVER- House Clearance | £12.45 per hour

Job Summary / Main Purpose:

To primarily support the House Clearance Operations to grow sales. Secondarily to support general warehouse operations as required:

• Complete full House Clearances Service from customers houses - House Clearance refers to the removal and sorting of all agreed items from a customer's property to generate income
• Uplifting a mix of stock from properties - Stock primarily refers to Furniture, Bric a Brac, Clothing and electrical items but may also include other products
• Driving a DH 3.5T Luton box van (and other Vehicles) to support clearance activities. Primarily to transport, load and unload between warehouse, shops, customer's properties and recycling centres but also to other locations as required in day-to-day operations.
• Offer great Customer service and represent Dorothy House in a positive and professional manner
• Assist with regular warehouse activities as required as part of the warehouse team
• Participate in organisational and/or departmental activities that promote the work of the Retail Team

See our full detailed Job Description on our website for more information.

HOURS OF WORK

This is a Part Time position working 15 hours per week over two 2 days.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to work weekends.

ABOUT YOU

Essential requirements:

• Full UK Driving Licence allowing you to drive up to 3.5 tonne vehicles*
• A good standard of Maths and English with a good attention to detail
• Able to work on own initiative and good team player
• Excellent prioritisation and organisation skills
• Confident using IT systems and Microsoft packages such as Word, E-mail, Excel and databases

*Needed due to the core duties and responsivities requiring the post holder to drive one of our fleet vehicles weighted up to 3.5 tonne.

Desirable requirements:

• Experience working in the retail sector, logistics sector or with volunteers
• Knowledge of with manual handling with experience regularly moving and lifting loads in a work environment.

OUR BENEFITS

Dorothy House is an incredible place to work, these are just a few of our benefits that we offer to our staff:

• Discretionary Bonus scheme - a yearly bonus for our retail staff
• 23 days plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service. Plus, the additional ability to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday each year!
• Excellent training and development programme from day one, to support and grow you through your career!
• Pension with Life Assurance.
• Colleague discount across our 27 retail stores.
• 45p per mile for work travel.
• Mindful Employer Plus Charter - supporting our colleagues with access to impartial, confidential advice when you need it most.

If this sounds like your ideal job, then we'd love to see your application.

Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.