Volunteering Opportunity: Retail Shop Volunteer with Keech Hospice Care

Before you can register your interest for this opportunity you must be registered as a volunteer.

Our Volunteers are at the heart of the day to day running of our shops. We thank you for your time given to the charity. The shops provide much needed income to provide nursing care for our patients. Our purpose is to care for our patients and to support their families and friends. Whilst aiming to provide the most efficient and provide appropriate care, both physically and emotionally in their home or at the Hospice. Keech Hospice have shops in St Albans, Radlett, Waltham Cross and Hertford.

Opportunity Type: Micro-volunteering

District: Broxbourne, East Herts, Hertsmere, St Albans

Location: Indoor

Time of day: Weekday Mornings, Weekday Afternoons, Weekend Half Days

Practical Considerations: Training available:

• Ongoing support, training and development
opportunities.
•Specific relevant training – Health & Safety, Fire Safety
and Equality and Diversity.

Benefits:

• On site training.
• Develop new skills and meet new people.

Suitable for: 16 – 17 year olds, 18 – 25 year olds, Aged 26 and over, School students, University students, Older People

Suitable for volunteers interested in: End of Life, Bereavement & Hospices, Retail, Voluntary & Community Action

Does this opportunity provide wheelchair access?: No

Full Description:
Tasks may include:

• Welcome, assist and serve our customers in a warm and
friendly way providing a good standard of customer
service.
• Ensure Gift Aid is explained clearly and promoted to all
our donors, and thanking them for their valuable
contribution.
• Promote public understanding of our work and the
importance of raising funds, including promoting
Hospice events and activities to the public.
• Help sort, steam, hang and display our donated stock
and rotate the stock following the Manager’s guidelines.
• Deal with customer purchases, confidently process the
cash handling and the accurate operation of the till.
Skills and Qualities:
• Honest, trustworthy and respectful.
• Enthusiastic with a positive attitude.
• Good communication and numeracy skills.
• Presenting and maintaining shop displays in an
attractive way to help create sales.
• Reliable, committed, dependable and flexible.
• Enjoy interacting with the customers and working as
part of team, as well as under your own initiative.