Garden Centre Assistant

Pay: £8 - £12.71 per hour

Job description:

Garden Centre Assistant

Part time, working 24 hours per week, 9.30am to 4pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and 1 alternating weekend day.

Perrywood is an independent, family-owned garden centre and nursery group run by the Bourne Family. Our Tiptree, Buckhatch and Sudbury centres are all surrounded by beautiful countryside and our mission is to offer a memorable garden centre experience; delivering wow customer service and giving our employees and customers, a reason to smile.

Working with our retail area supporting our sales and till assistants; we are looking for motivated individuals who can follow instructions and communicate with customers. You will support our mission to offer a memorable garden centre experience; delivering wow customer service and giving employees, customers, suppliers and community a reason to smile.

Rewards and Benefits

In addition to your hourly rate, you will receive the following benefits:

• Discount – From the start of your employment you will receive 10% discount on specific items.Following a successful probation period the discount increases up to 20% discount on specific items and after one years service up to 40% discount on specific items. (some exceptions apply)
• Paid holiday – holiday entitlement is 22 days per year, plus bank holidays. Restrictions apply (part-time pro rata)
• Annual Christmas bonus
• Part-uniform provided
• Employee Assistance Programme - a confidential personal and professional support service available to all employees and their immediate families 24/7, 365 days a year.
• Training & development, as required. We have an e-learning scheme called GROW, and also take
• part in other training with product suppliers and external trainers
• Company sick pay – following a successful probation period employees are entitled to 10 days paid sickness (part-time pro rata)
• Access to our Retail Discount Scheme – savings on retailers including Tesco, Pizza Express, M&S, Waitrose, Argos, Apple, Currys PC World, Thomas Cook and 100’s more
• Workplace pension
• Free parking

Key Duties

• Moving trolleys, throughout the day you will be collecting empty trolleys from the car park and returning them to the shop areas
• Assisting customers by carrying purchases to their vehicles, particularly with heavy or bulky items, helping load into cars and answering basic queries
• Moving stock from/to the warehouse and moving promotional materials and displays around the centre
• Maintaining the cleanliness of the garden centre and stock areas, carrying out cleaning duties and minor maintenance works

Your capabilities

• Good verbal communication skills, and customer service skills, confident in dealing with members of the public
• Able to follow instructions from your supervisors, and work on your own initiative
• You are able to lift, carry or move products and purchases (e.g., large compost bags, stone garden pots, garden furniture etc.)

Requirements

• Working 24 hours per week
• You’ll need to work some bank holidays if they fall on your working days (as part of a rota with other assistants), but will be given a day’s holiday in lieu

Experience

• Retail experience preferable

If this part time Garden Centre Assistant position sounds like the ideal opportunity for you, please apply directly to us. We’d love to hear from you!

For further information and a full job description, please visit the Perrywood website https://www.perrywood.co.uk/careers/

Perrywood is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please inform us as soon as you are able so that we can make the appropriate adjustments.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £8.00-£12.71 per hour

Expected hours: 24.0 per week

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Application question(s):

• Due to our rural location and limited access to public transport, your own transport is preferred.

Experience:

• Customer Service: 2 years (required)

Work Location: In person