Everton in the Community – Stock Assistant – Community Food Pantry

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Contract: 12-month fixed term.
Term: Part-time (Wednesdays).
Salary: TBC.
Hours per week: 7 hours.
Reporting to: Blue Family Coordinator: Ryan O’Hanlon.
Location: The Blue Base, Salop Street, L4 4BZ.

Employer Bio

Everton in the Community is one of the UK’s top sporting charities and is firmly established on the world stage of community sports development. As the Blues’ official charity, it is considered one of the Premier League’s leading community schemes due to the quality and reach of its various programmes. Since 1988, Everton in the Community has been at the forefront of social intervention across Merseyside, not afraid to tackle issues which others shied away from. The charity offers more than 40 programmes covering a range of social issues including health, employability, anti-social behaviour, crime, education, dementia, poverty, youth engagement, youth justice and disability.

Job Description

They now have an opportunity for a part-time Stock Assistant to join the team supporting with their fantastic Everton in the Community Food Pantry. This role will act as a key support function to their weekly Blue Base Community Pantry. Their Stock Assistant will ensure that their food storage container is well stocked and organised each week by receiving, unpacking, and organising food deliveries; collecting surplus food from a variety of supermarkets and external partners; and ensuring that the storage container is well-organised for the Pantry.

Lastly, this role will work alongside their Blue Family Coordinator to support crisis referrals received by external organisations. This support will include, but will not be limited to completing, and delivering essential food shops and other essential items (i.e., furniture) to families living in crisis across Merseyside.

Other key responsibilities will include:

• Recording weekly stock levels of each item and informing the Blue Family Coordinator.
• Ensuring that stock is regularly rotated, with the earliest use-by dates at the front.
• Removing any goods from the container that are past their sell-by date.
• Demonstrating high levels of food hygiene at all times.
• Be able to travel independently across the Liverpool City Region.

Who they are looking for:

Essentially, they are looking for an individual who has a friendly and helpful manner and who is committed to making a positive difference to people’s lives. Their successful candidate will also have the ability to show compassion and empathy to other people’s situations.

Other key Knowledge and Skills will include:

• Good interpersonal skills to build relationships with existing staff members, participants, and key external partners
• Be physically capable of heavy lifting
• Clean, full UK driving license
• Level 2 Food Hygiene (or willingness to work towards)
• Manual Handling Certificate (or willingness to work towards)
• Relevant Health & Safety Qualification (or willingness to work towards).

For more information and to apply, please click here.

Deadline: Friday 21 October 2022.

Contact Details: bluefamilyprogramme@evertonfc.com.