Wirral Foodbank is a local based charity providing emergency food to local people in crisis. In 2023, we fed and supported over 16,000 people.
The jobholder will assist the Warehouse Manager and volunteers to ensure that all areas of the Warehouse for Wirral Foodbank are run efficiently.
Requirements:
The successful applicant should ideally have experience in warehouse operations and working with volunteers.
- Working as part of team and ability to carry out manual work are essential.
- The job involves manual lifting and moving of crates, with individual weights in excess of 20kgs.
- The job holder must be capable of this and ideally have experience in such environments.
- At busier times of the year, it may be necessary to work additional hours.
- The job holder must be able to drive.
Key Skills:
- Good oral communication.
- Good organisational skills.
- Outgoing and able to build strong relationships with staff and volunteers.
- Work independently and unsupervised.
- IT literate.
- Numerate.
Personal attributes:
- Passionate about tackling poverty and working with people from disadvantaged, marginalised, or socially excluded backgrounds.
- Honesty and integrity.
- Sympathetic to the ethos of the Foodbank as a Christian organisation which welcomes as volunteers and clients’ members of all faiths and none.
Hourly rate: £13.53 per hour (pay increase pending)
Part-time: 22 hours per week Monday – Thursday (additional Friday working, subject to workload, may be necessary, paid at the hourly rate)
Holidays: 20 days per annum
Initial 12-month contract
For an application form and copy of job description please contact Richard Roberts, General Manager, Wirral Foodbank on 07947387930 or email manager@wirralfoodbank.org.uk
Closing date for application: 30th November 2024
Interviews: week commencing 8th December 2024
Proposed start date: Monday 13th January 2025
Wirral Foodbank
Unit 14 Wirral Business Centre,
Dock Road, Birkenhead
CH41 1JW
e: manager@wirralfoodbank.org.uk
T:07947387930