Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteers
- Grade
- Volunteer
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 277-7720143-VOL
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Memorial Hospital
- Town
- Woolwich
- Closing
- 22/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Volunteer Snack Shop Assistant
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.
Shop staff must attend Food & Hygiene training and statutory Fire training.
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 Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
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.
Shop staff must attend Food & Hygiene training and statutory Fire training.
Person specification
Communication
Essential criteria
- Must have excellent communication skill
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a shop environment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of stock rotation requirements
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
- Paul Buckingham
- Job title
- Voluntary Services Co-ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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