As a Butcher’s Assistant / Shop Assistant, you’ll work across different areas of the shop depending on what needs doing that day.

Customer service will be a key part of your role. You’ll regularly be serving customers at the counter, helping them with what they’re looking for, taking and preparing orders and making sure they leave with a positive experience. You’ll also help keep our displays full, tidy and well presented throughout the day.

Alongside this, you’ll work with our butchers and assist with day-to-day production. This could include sausage and meat patty production, preparing pet food, packing and preparing meat, weighing and labelling products, preparing customer orders, helping with smoked products and learning basic knife and machinery skills as your experience and confidence develop.

You’ll also help with restocking, receiving deliveries, cleaning equipment and work areas, and maintaining the high food-safety and hygiene standards expected in a working butcher shop.

As a small team, flexibility and teamwork are important to us. Everyone contributes across different areas of the shop when required, particularly during our busiest periods. Our holiday seasons, especially Christmas and New Year, are an important and busy time for the business, so availability and reliability during these periods will be an important part of the role.

The opportunity

This role would suit someone who enjoys working with people but also wants something more hands-on and varied than a standard retail position.

You’ll get to know our regular customers, work alongside experienced butchers and have the opportunity to learn useful butchery and production skills along the way.

For the right person, there’s plenty of opportunity to develop your skills, become more involved in the butchery side of the business and grow into a trusted and valued member of the team.