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Trading Assistant
| Posting date: | 11 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £15,925 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 25 April 2025 |
| Location: | Welney, Wisbech |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
About The Role
The Trading Assistant is a key part of the WWT Welney Team, utilising, their skills and hospitality to maximise sales within the cafe and shop; thereby supporting our conservation work.
Your role will be diverse, spread across the catering and retail operation. We will provide training and coaching for all aspects of the role and will look for attitude over experience. The majority of your role will include:
giving a warm welcome to every visitor to the café, demonstrating exceptional standards of customer service
taking orders, making hot drinks as well as serving our seasonal menu and clearing tables
helping in the kitchen, ensuring you maintain high standards of food hygiene and safety at all times.
This is a seven-day-a-week operation. We work on a schedule which will include regular weekend work. This is a part time role working 25 hours per week.
About You
Experience is not necessary as full training is given. An ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:
Good communication skills
Ability to work as part of a busy team, and independently if required
Good personal hygiene is mandatory
Enthusiasm
Independent transport is crucial as the site is away from public transport
About Us
We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.
Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there’s nothing we love more than watching them soar.
Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?
Why you’ll love working at WWT
Wake up every day knowing your work is helping to restore wetlands, and our world
Be surrounded and inspired by our team of passionate, dedicated people
33 days annual leave (which goes up to 38 days after 5 years of service) – this includes bank holidays and you have flexibility to take those days whenever you want
Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
Cycle to work scheme
Contributory pension scheme
Life Assurance of three times your salary, for peace of mind for your loved ones
Independent personal, workplace and financial advice from Care first
WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit.
The Trading Assistant is a key part of the WWT Welney Team, utilising, their skills and hospitality to maximise sales within the cafe and shop; thereby supporting our conservation work.
Your role will be diverse, spread across the catering and retail operation. We will provide training and coaching for all aspects of the role and will look for attitude over experience. The majority of your role will include:
giving a warm welcome to every visitor to the café, demonstrating exceptional standards of customer service
taking orders, making hot drinks as well as serving our seasonal menu and clearing tables
helping in the kitchen, ensuring you maintain high standards of food hygiene and safety at all times.
This is a seven-day-a-week operation. We work on a schedule which will include regular weekend work. This is a part time role working 25 hours per week.
About You
Experience is not necessary as full training is given. An ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:
Good communication skills
Ability to work as part of a busy team, and independently if required
Good personal hygiene is mandatory
Enthusiasm
Independent transport is crucial as the site is away from public transport
About Us
We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.
Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there’s nothing we love more than watching them soar.
Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?
Why you’ll love working at WWT
Wake up every day knowing your work is helping to restore wetlands, and our world
Be surrounded and inspired by our team of passionate, dedicated people
33 days annual leave (which goes up to 38 days after 5 years of service) – this includes bank holidays and you have flexibility to take those days whenever you want
Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
Cycle to work scheme
Contributory pension scheme
Life Assurance of three times your salary, for peace of mind for your loved ones
Independent personal, workplace and financial advice from Care first
WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit.