Saturday Farm Shop Assistant

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 05 November 2025

You will work together with the Darwin Nursery and Farm Shop Team. Darwin Nurseries and farm shop is a therapeutic horticultural and retail workplace where adults with learning disabilities and mental health challenges can develop skills in horticulture, retail and animal husbandry.

The Saturday Farm Shop Assistant will work in a busy farm shop selling fruit and vegetables, plants and garden sundries.

The Saturday Farm Shop assistant will be responsible for ensuring the farm shop, cafe and plant nursery are maintained to a high standard. Customer service and cash handling will be an essential part of the role.

Stock control, presentation and maintaining health and safety on the site is required, as well as the ability to maintain site security.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To work according to the Trust values.
• Order stock, receive and check deliveries as directed by the lead person. Price goods and display them.
• Follow instructions from farm shop manager with regard to daily jobs and routines.
• Ensure cafe area is prepared for service, maintain good hygiene standards and maintain stock levels.
• Feed and care for animals, maintaining strong animal husbandry standards and security.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of market and current issues.
• Ensure shop, cafe and storage areas are clean, tidy and presentable.
• Maintain health and safety and meet all relevant legislation COSHH, Trading Standards, Environmental Health.
• Maintain security.
• Cashing up, banking and general administrative duties are undertaken.
• To maintain quality at all times and contribute towards the development and implementation of quality standards.
• To work alongside volunteers, students and student tutors.
• To contribute to team meetings.
• To promote a positive image of the service.
• To ensure that up to date and accurate records are kept.
• To have a personal development plan and to attend and participate in training.
• To communicate effectively with service users, colleagues, families and the general public.
• To maintain confidentiality at all times.

• Ability to lift heavy loads
• Willingness to work in the outdoors in varied weather
• Professional approach
• Have initiative
• Commitment to empowering people with disabilities and people who are neuro diverse
• Promote independence and confidence

• Ability to provide excellent customer service
• Knowledge of stock control
• Good organisational skills
• Awareness of Health and Safety

• Experience in related fields
• Team Work

• Good numeracy and literacy
• Horticulture Qualification

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust