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Baby To Teen Retail Assistant

  • VO87986

Description

Main duties:

  1. To provide excellent Customer Service
  2. To process sales and take cash and card payments
  3. To sort, price and merchandise donations
  4. Keeping Shop area clean and tidy
  5. Keeping Back Store area clean and tidy
  6. To provide information relating to Baby to Teen and its Services
  7. To comply with Baby to Teen Policy and procedures
  8. To represent Baby to Teen in a professional way

To find out more about our campaigns click on the I WANT TO VOLUNTEER it will take you to our facebook page where you could message the team. Our email address is baby2teen@outlook.com or come along to the shop for a chat.

Organisation aims and objectives

Baby to Teen has been set up as a branch of Night Before Christmas, by one of the original elves Karen. In 2021 Siobhan Brown MSP merged South Ayrshire Baby Bank into Baby to Teen. The aim of the organisation is to help support families in need during a time of financial stress. Baby to Teen helps families through individual referrals from Health Visitors and Local Authorities. Baby to Teen raises funds through the Baby to Teen shop. A shop that not only sells products for babies, children and young adults at affordable prices, but also encourages reuse of items that still have plenty of life left in them for someone else to enjoy and make use of. Baby to Teen collects clothes, equipment, cots, prams and toys that are new and preloved and sells them, at prices families can afford or passes them onto families in need. Through the funds raised in the shop Baby to Teen can support families in need with new items they need. The service is provided for free, and all donations go directly to the families the charity supports in our local community. Baby to Teen also hosts pop up shops in partnership with local communities, schools and food banks. Aims: 1. To relieve poverty within South Ayrshire by sourcing good quality new and pre-loved products to families in need. 2. To promote greener living by up-cycling products and therefore reducing the amount of waste. 3. To build long lasting relationships with local authorities, health visitors, food banks and schools to support local families in need. 4. To promote Baby to Teen in the local community to encourage donations of items.

Availability

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Shop is open Tuesday to Friday 10 to 2, Saturday 10 till 3. Willing to consider all based on individuals’ availability.

Restrictions

Experience required: 1. To want to work in retail as part of team, in customer focused environment 2. To be able to provide a high level of customer service 3. Friendly 4. Trustworthy 5. Reliable 6. Excellent Time Keeping 7. Basic numeracy and literacy 8. Willing to undertake training 9. Driver (preferred not essential) for picking up donations locally.
Travel details: Individual would need to be able to travel into Ayr Town Centre to the shop.

Support

Expenses paid: Yes
Expenses details: We will pay for out of pocket travel costs including mileage and parking
Taster available: Yes
Training details: Baby to Teen training programme includes: Induction Health and Safety Customer Service Volunteers will gain and develop skills, that they will be able to transfer to future employment opportunities.

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