Salary: £13.65 per hour + benefits
Contract: Permanent, Part-time
Hours: 6 hours per week – Sundays only
Location: Chelsea Shop
Department: Trading
Reports to: Shop Manager
Closing date: 27 September 2026, 11:55 pm
About Cancer Research UK
Millions of bargain hunters. Endless pre-loved items. One meaningful purpose.
At Cancer Research UK, our mission is simple: to beat cancer. Every day, our people work together to raise vital funds that support life-saving research, prevention and treatment.
We are looking for a motivated Retail Assistant to join our trading team at our Chelsea shop. In this role, you’ll help run the shop on Sundays, take on keyholder responsibilities and support our fantastic team of volunteers.
This is an opportunity to develop your retail and customer service skills while making a meaningful contribution to our work.
What you’ll be doing
As a Retail Sunday Assistant, you will:
- Take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the shop on Sundays, including keyholder duties. Full training will be provided.
- Support and motivate a diverse team of volunteers.
- Help the wider shop team achieve sales and fundraising targets.
- Receive, review and process donated goods and new stock.
- Use your creativity to identify new ways to generate income, with support from the Shop Manager.
- Deliver excellent customer service and make customers and supporters feel welcome and valued.
- Maintain high standards of safeguarding, compliance, health and safety and shop presentation.
- Carry out regular manual handling and other physical activities as part of the role.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who:
- Understands what excellent customer service looks like.
- Has experience working in a busy, lively environment.
- Can adapt confidently to changing situations.
- Is comfortable working independently as well as as part of a team.
- Has commercial awareness and an interest in achieving sales targets.
- Builds positive relationships and communicates effectively with customers, volunteers and colleagues.
- Is flexible and able to support the needs of the shop as part of a rota.
We understand that you have a life outside work, so while flexibility is important, we aim to balance the needs of our shops with those of our employees.
What you’ll receive
We want our people to feel supported and have opportunities to develop. You’ll have access to:
- A generous benefits package.
- A substantial retirement plan.
- Generous and flexible leave.
- Discounts across travel, technology, gym memberships and more.
- Career and personal development opportunities.
- High-quality tools, policies and processes to help you succeed.
- Confidential wellbeing support through the Retail Trust.
Important information
You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply. Cancer Research UK is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Due to the nature of this role, any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.
Applicants must be 18 or over. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone under the age of 18 because of health and safety and safeguarding requirements.
Our recruitment process
Cancer Research UK is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and uses an anonymised shortlisting process.
A CV is required as part of your application, but it will not be viewed until you are invited to interview. Instead, please complete the work history section of the online application form so we can assess applications quickly, fairly and objectively.
If you need any adjustments or have concerns about the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minority backgrounds, which are currently under-represented within our organisation.
How to apply
For more information and to apply, please visit the Cancer Research UK careers website.
Closing date: 27 September 2026 at 11:55 pm.