Job summary
- Main area
- Van/Delivery Driver
- Grade
- NLH 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week covering a seven day period)
- Job ref
- Van Driver
- Employer
- North London Hospice
- Employer type
- Private Sector
- Site
- 120 High Street
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £28,786 - £30,491 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Van Driver
NLH 3
Job overview
Van Drivers Needed – Help Our Hospice Provide Vital Care Through Charity Shop Deliveries
North London Hospice is a beacon of compassion in the North London communities, providing exceptional end of life support. Our charity shops play a vital role in the delivery of this free care by helping to pay for all our services. As a driver for our shops your role will be an essential one in the provision of this care.
We’re looking for reliable and motivated Van Drivers to join our expanding charity retail team across Northwest London. This role is essential to the success of our shops, helping to collect and deliver donated furniture and household items between our donation points, shops, and customers’ homes. You will ensure that every item arrives in great condition, ready to be sold and turned into vital funds for our hospice services.
Main duties of the job
We’re looking for reliable and motivated Van Drivers to join our expanding charity retail team across Northwest London. This role is essential to the success of our shops, helping to collect and deliver donated furniture and household items between our donation points, shops, and customers’ homes. You will ensure that every item arrives in great condition, ready to be sold and turned into vital funds for our hospice services.
You’ll be a key part of the team, representing our charity. You’ll regularly interact with donors, customers, shop staff, and volunteers, offering a helpful hand and a friendly face. With a good knowledge of the road and a hands-on approach to moving and handling goods, to help keep our retail operations running smoothly and efficiently.
We’re looking for someone with proven van driving experience, ideally within a charity retail environment who is confident navigating busy routes and managing their time well. This is a rewarding role for someone who wants to use their driving skills for a good cause.
If you’re ready to bring your experience to a role with purpose, we’d love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
As an organisation, we are committed to offering a healthy work/life balance, with accessible mental health support, an extensive range of lifestyle and health benefits and excellent training and development opportunities, and hence, we offer the following range of competitive benefits:
- Competitive rates of pay
- Generous annual leave
- Transfer of NHS pension scheme
- Pension - Employer contribution pension scheme
- Access to clinical supervision
- Fully funded Health Cash Plan
- Life Assurance cover
- Flexible/Hybrid Working
- A range of opportunities for professional learning and development
- Access to our 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Travel incentives
- Family friendly and special leave
- A supportive and collaborative work environment
- Blue Light Scheme membership and carers’ discounts
- Social events throughout the year and much more…
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the attached job description and person specification for more details on the role and type of individual who would suit the post.
We reserve the right to interview candidates who are most suited to this post before the closing date.
North London Hospice is an equal opportunities employer and a proud member of the Disability Confident Employer Scheme. We value diversity, and we acknowledge that we currently have an underrepresentation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people. North London Hospice job opportunities are open to all, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Full clean UK driver’s license & aged over 25 years (for insurance reasons)
- Knowledge of safe and effective manual handling
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience driving a van (ideally Luton and Long-wheel base)
- Experience working with customers
Personal Qualities and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills –
- Strong team working skills and ability to work well under pressure
- Able to work autonomously, using own initiative
- Able to comfortably manage physically demanding work
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deborah Leonard
- Job title
- People Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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