Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteer
- Grade
- Volunteer
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 277-7488107-VOL
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Memorial Hospital
- Town
- London
- Closing
- 06/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Memorial Hospital Snack Shop Volunteer
Volunteer
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to volunteer within the Memorial Hospital Snack shop serving staff, clients, relatives and visitors of the Hospital.
All profits raised are to be spent on our inpatient services.
Volunteers must live within 8 miles of the Memorial Hospital
Main duties of the job
- To open the shop at prescribed times, display goods in display units observing sell by dates and rotating the stock.
- To monitor and record the temperature of the refrigerated storage units +1/+8c best +4c
- Use cash register & complete daily sales returns
- Shop staff need to be friendly and amicable.
- Experience working in a shop would be and advantage but is not essential
- On the job training and awareness of the fire alarm and when to leave the building.
- Volunteers must be trustworthy
- On the job training on the use of the till, sales returns and refrigerator temperature reading. Personal hygiene.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information, please see the Job Description attached.
- To open the shop at prescribed times, display goods in display units observing sell by dates and rotating the stock.
- To monitor and record the temperature of the refrigerated storage units +1/+8c best +4c
- Use cash register & complete daily sales returns
- Shop staff need to be friendly and amicable.
- Experience working in a shop would be and advantage but is not essential
- On the job training and awareness of the fire alarm and when to leave the building.
- Volunteers must be trustworthy
- On the job training on the use of the till, sales returns and refrigerator temperature reading. Personal hygiene.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Applicant must be able to check and rotate stock during their shift
Communication
Essential criteria
- Applicant must have good communication skills and be patient
Skills
Essential criteria
- Applicant must be willing to learn how to use the till and other necessary required equipment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Langford
- Job title
- Voluntary Services Development Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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