Van Driver

£22,368.92 per year (£11.44 per hour)

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

Retail Hub – Manse Lane, Knaresborough

Saint Michaels Hospice & Herriot Hospice Homecare Charity Stores are at the heart of our community.

Are you an adaptable and driven delivery driver, comfortable handling a long wheelbase vehicle? We are currently looking for a Retail Driver to support our Retail Hub, based on Manse Lane Knaresborough with furniture collection and delivery, alongside general shop support.

You will ensure that stock, including furniture, is safely transported between shops, customers’ homes and other locations, paying attention to health and safety at all times. Making practical assessments, you will be able to check items for collection with mind to safety and sale needs. Successful candidates will have a hands-on attitude, being able to carry out basic maintenance on the retail vehicles and stores as required. PAT testing ability or willingness to train is similarly valuable.

Candidates must possess excellent customer services skills and be confident liaising with customers ensuring they are informed of any delays or changes to collections/deliveries. Knowledge of health and safety and safe lifting techniques is also required. Familiarity with the Harrogate & surrounding areas will be an advantage.

Due to insurance criteria for our vehicles, candidates will need to have a full clean driving licence with experience of driving a tail lift vehicle.

Please see a copy of the full Job Description and Person Specification for this role at the bottom of this page.

Benefits include (subject to elibility): -

• 35 days holiday per year (including Bank Holidays, pro-rata).
• Comprehensive Induction Programme.
• Refer a friend bonus scheme.
• Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 8%.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to staff support.
• Free group life assurance.
• Free DBS check.
• Free car parking at Hospice office sites.

You will be joining an organisation that is driven, caring, and responsive and you will be playing an important role in enabling us to provide our highly valued services to the people of Harrogate, Hambleton, and Richmondshire Districts.

At North Yorkshire Hospice Care we believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Every member of our organisation has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all who encounter our services. We aim to keep people safe and to operate our services in a way that protects them; to make reporting concerns as easy as possible and respond quickly; to listen to all worries and work in partnership with individuals and agencies. All our staff and volunteers receive annual training on both adults and children/young people’s safeguarding.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks being obtained including successful applicants being required to undertake a DBS Check suitable for the role that you will be performing.  Disclosure expenses will be met by the employer.

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a registered charity in England and Wales (518905) with a family of services operating as Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’, Saint Michael’s Hospice, and Talking Spaces. North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (2121179).

For more information on the role, please contact us on HR@saintmichaelshospice.org or on 01423 200145 and we can arrange for you to have an informal discussion, or please click Apply and you will be forwarded to our website, where a full Job Description is available (via the ‘Document Available’ button at the top of the advert). Please be aware we reserve the right to close a vacancy early if a suitable candidate is identified.

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, we are not currently able to consider applicants who do not have the right to work in the UK.

PLEASE ENSURE: that you answer all supplementary questions as part of your application. Failure to do so will result in an automatic rejection and your application will not be considered.

Have you been recommended to this role by a current employee as part of our recommend a friend scheme? Don’t forget to let us know after clicking apply.

Our Values at Work                

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is clear about who we are, what we do and why we do it. It is our vision; mission and values that underpin this understanding and all three of these areas continue to evolve as we develop in response to the changing world around us.

We have re-examined our values with our stakeholders seeking to define a sense of who we are today. The result? A set of 10 values/behaviours that crystallize this thinking and act as a yardstick for our thinking and actions.

This shared set of values helps guide our decisions, actions and behaviours and is at the core of our collective aspiration to live in a community where everyone gets the care they need to live their last years, months and days with respect and dignity.

NB: This list is not exclusive or exhaustive but captures those values/behaviours currently at the top of our agenda.

• We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do
• We are caring and compassionate
• We are personal and supportive in our approach
• We engage positively
• We are responsive
• We are driven to do better
• We are fair
• We are professional
• We work collaboratively
• We are accountable