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JCA 2025 Retail Assistant
JCA Retail Assistant – 2025
With over 25 years’ experience in the outdoor industry, JCA is one of the leading UK companies for school and family activity holidays. JCA’s flagship activity centre is Condover Hall based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. We boast over 40 different activities to choose from and can host over 500 guests at one time – a super exciting and unique place to work.
This is a full-time seasonal vacancy from January – October 2025 with the option to return for the 2026 season.
Benefits:
- Employee discounts - Being part of Travelopia you will have access to the TravelBar, our discount app, which can save you money on every day spend such as your supermarket shop & high street purchases.
- Friends & Family Days - become a guest and take part in some of our exciting adventure activities with your family and friends.
The details:
- Seasonal contract from 27th January to 24th October 2025
- Full-time position working 40 hours per week
- Working hours 11am – 7.30pm Tuesday to Saturday, with the exception of our Sport Tournament weekends where you will work Wednesday to Sunday
- The role will involve working evenings & weekends
- Salary will increase from April 2025
- Accommodation is not available, and you will need your own transport to travel to Condover Hall due to the location
Day to day, your key duties will include:
- Serving customers (mainly school age children) in our on-site shop in the manor house.
- Regular stocking up of the shop and the bar.
- Physical tasks such as putting away deliveries, lifting and moving sometimes heavy boxes of drinks and merchandise.
- Being on your feet for a large part of the day, including using stairs.
- Regular cleaning tasks.
- Handling money including cashing-up your own till.
- Performing monthly stock checks.
- Ensuring all health and safety procedures are effectively adhered to.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience in a similar position is desirable, but not essential.
- Reliable and punctual.
- Confident in working in a busy and fast-paced environment.
- Enjoys working individually but is also confident as part of a wider team.
- Has great customer service skills.
- Flexible to accommodate varying shift times including evenings and weekends.
- Enjoys working with children.
- 18+ years
- Has a passion for customer service & a ‘can-do’ attitude.
- Ability to work with your own initiative as there will be periods of unsupervised working.
- A keen eye for detail.
*Our Recruitment Team is based at our Head Office in Brighton so we may call you from a Brighton number (01273)*
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