Status: 15 hours per week over 2 days including a % of Saturdays. Some additional hours to cover annual leave and sickness will be expected from time to time.
Salary: £8,354 per annum (WTE £20,885)
Closing Date: 24/09/2023
Interview Date: 06/10/2023
As a Furniture Van Driver you will carry out the collection and delivery of donated furniture throughout East Anglia from donors homes to a variety of locations. You will provide a high standard of customer service and satisfaction at all times to both external and internal customers. You will also assist in the promotion of furniture donations through local networks with poster and leaflet drops.
St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves life for people in the east Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Through medicine and therapy, they ease pain; give life purpose and make life liveable. Last year the charity supported over 3,000 patients and their families.
The hospice’s work is centred on the individual’s needs and they provide specialist support wherever it is needed; whether that is in the home, another setting in the community, in hospital or in the hospice itself. Support is provided to patients and their families via the Inpatient Unit, the Community Care Unit including outpatient’s clinics, home visits from the community nursing, medical or therapy team, the OneCall 24/7 telephone helpline and bereavement support.
Our growing Retail division is an important source of income for the Hospice allowing us to provide high quality palliative care to our patients.
The hospice offers a number of benefits including:
- Generous holiday allowance (above statutory levels)
- Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Insurance
- Occupational sick pay
For more details about this role please refer to the job description and person specification.
Only applicants selected for interview will be contacted, and invitation to interview will be sent by email. If applying, please keep a check on your emails including your spam/junk folders.