Van Driver
Description
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 | £23,979 per annum, pro rata
To ensure the safe transportation of all items to and from shops, customers' houses and other collection/delivery points.
- To offer excellent customer service as a representative of Dorothy House.
- To ensure that the vehicle is kept clean and mechanically maintained and in full compliance at all times with the necessary legal documentation.
- To inform management in good time of the pending expiry of any documentation.
- To return the van daily to its specified parking location.
- To perform other general duties not connected with the collection/delivery of items, as required.
- To act in a polite and courteous manner and work with care and consideration within a large team of volunteers, staff and customers.
- To respond promptly and efficiently to the implementation of new policies or changes in procedure.
- To have an overall awareness of the Retail Organisation and participate in education, training and development and attend meetings as required
See our full detailed Job Description on our website for more information.
HOURS OF WORK
This is a Part Time position working 22.5 hours per week.
Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to work weekends.
ABOUT YOU
Essential requirements:
- Experienced driver with clean licence
- Physically fit to meet handballing demands
- Courteous and polite with a commitment to excellent customer service
- Full UK driving licence
- Flexibility in terms of working pattern
Desirable requirements:
- Experience working in retail, for a charity, or as a commercial van driver
OUR BENEFITS
Dorothy House is an incredible place to work, these are just a few of our benefits that we offer to our staff:
- Bonus scheme - a yearly bonus for our retail staff
- Generous holiday allowance for all roles, increasing with length of service
- Excellent industry leading training and development programmes with many career development opportunities
- Pension with Life Assurance
- Travel and parking - We offer 45p per mile for work travel. There is unlimited free parking in Winsley.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Counselling and Mindful Employer Charter - providing our staff with information, advice and support for those experiencing stress, anxiety, depression or any other mental health conditions.
- Simply Health - Providing insurance against certain everyday healthcare costs such as dental and optical treatments.
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.
Required skills for this position
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Explore FAQsAt Dorothy House, the principles of equality, diversity and inclusivity are central to our work as an outstanding care provider and employer. They are inherent in our values where we care, we connect and we create. We recognise the diversity of the people who deliver our services and the people who receive them. We believe that by building a diverse workforce, underpinned by a culture of respect, we will create an environment where everyone will have access to receive outstanding care and support from Dorothy House, regardless of characteristic.
Our 2021 Services Review identified how we need to work differently to achieve our strategic mission to ensure that “everyone has access to outstanding palliative and end of life care” and has presented us with an opportunity to improve on the “community development” work of the past and engage differently with our communities for the benefit of our patients, carers and families. Put another way, this is our moment ‘to do things differently’ and we are embracing this through Asset Based Community Development. We expect all staff to embrace this strategy and we will provide training accordingly.
What happens next
Your application will be processed. One of the team from Dorothy House may contact you to discuss your application further
If selected, you will be invited to attend an interview
We will keep you informed of the progress of your application throughout the selection process
Every day is different and challenging, and I feel privileged to be let into the lives and homes of our patients
Elaine Kynaston, Dorothy House carer
Dorothy House is at the end of a phone whenever you need advice or reassurance. There’s just something about all the staff – they’re so approachable.
Angela Selman, DH patient, 2022
I was a Hospice at Home carer for thirty years. I think we all feel privileged to do it. It’s an honour to be with people at the very end of life.
Maggie Matthews, Dorothy House carer
I cannot put into words what a difference your carers made at such a dark time, and I will always be truly grateful.
Family of a patient, 2021
Anyone who works for Dorothy House is passionate about what we do. We’re like a family –we agree on our values and our mission and that comes through more than anything
Sue Spanswick, Dorothy House carer
It sounds a cliché, but every day really is totally different and I get to work with some amazing people
Debbie Russell, Mobile Deputy Shop Manager
I really wanted to work for Dorothy house after seeing first-hand the quality of care they provided. I applied for hospice at home carer role, and was thrilled to be offered a position.
Julia Harper, Dorothy House carer
My role at Dorothy House feels more meaningful than any of my previous corporate experience. Things here really matter, and it is so rewarding playing my part in helping us be there for patients and families
Rhiannon Eveleigh, Corporate Communications, 2022