Department:
Retail
Position:
Paid
Town/City:
Openshaw
Salary Details:
£23,810 pro rata, per annum + benefits
Advertising End Date:
24 Jul 2025
Vacancy Type:
Permanent
Hours Per Week:
22.5

Job Advert

We are excited to be looking for a Store Assistant to join our amazing team in Openshaw on a 22.5hr contract.

We are looking for a passionate and motivated person to help our store reach full potential. We want someone who is excited about charity retail, fashion, who can use their initiative.

As a Store Assistant you will: 


Support the store to achieve sales targets through effective stock merchandising and replenishment
Be representing Mencap as an efficient and charitable organisation by ensuring that your actions reinforce the Mencap aims and values 
Strive to ensure stock is generated from the local area and donors 
Sign up donors to the Gift Aid scheme and ensure maximum income is achieved through Gift Aid 
Maintain the store to a high standard of presentation throughout. 
Support the volunteer team in the store to achieve the daily aims.  
Be responsible for all financial and cash handling and health and safety when the Manager and Assistant manager are away from the store.
 
To be a successful Store Assistant, you will be:

Have relevant customer service experience.
Have a flexible approach to working hours and days including working weekend and Bank Holidays as appropriate. 
Willing to travel to occasional team meetings, training events and in the initial growth of the new retail train assisting with setting up other new stores. 
Passionate about the Mencap values and will strive to ensure our Retail brand is successful. 
 
If you are looking for an exciting new challenge and want to work for an organisation that strives for excellence, we want to hear from you! 

  

We are an equitable, diverse and inclusive organisation and we particularly welcome and encourage disabled applicants and those from the Black and Asian communities to apply for the role as they are under-represented within the workforce.

 
This vacancy closes on Thursday 24th July 2025.
Job ID: 34129
 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us. To find out more about the scheme please visit the direct gov website.

 

Benefits

Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated. Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings. For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!

About Mencap

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives. We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in. At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues. Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere. · Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation. · Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes · Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves. We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies. We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.

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