Careers
Please check regularly for exciting opportunities to join our successful charity team.
Charity Shop Manager
32 – 40 hours per week (4 or 5 days)
£21,000 FTE, plus performance bonus
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity is about to open its first charity shop, in a large retail unit in the heart of Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol.
We’re looking for an experienced retail manager who can help us set up this flagship store, develop it and turn it into a high performing shop, contributing to the charity’s income, raising our profile and becoming a focal point for the local community. You will need to be a good all-rounder with strong retail management experience, but most importantly you should share our values, be motivated, enthusiastic and passionate about helping our charity make a difference to local communities.
We hope that this will be the first of many shops, so we are ideally looking for someone who could grow into an Area Manager role in future.
Get in touch with us via jobs@gwaac.com if you have any questions, or apply by sending a covering letter and CV to jobs@gwaac.com by 9am on Monday 10th August 2020.
Retail Volunteer
Location: Westbury-on-Trym
Responsible to: Shop Manager, Assistant Shop Manager, Volunteer Coordinator
Hours: Shift patterns TBC; start date September
Our retail volunteers will be part of the team at our charity’s first retail shop, a large unit in the heart of a vibrant local shopping area with great transport links. You will play a vital role in generating charity income and raising the profile of our work locally!
Find out more and how to get involved below.
Why work for Great Western Air Ambulance Charity?
When you work for Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, you feel part of something special. By the time you come into work in the morning, our crew may well have saved the life of someone you know, someone living in your local community.
From fundraisers to highly skilled paramedics and senior consultants, we are a team, working to save lives that would otherwise be lost. The job can be high pressure, but it is deeply satisfying, and every member of the team is committed to this service, and to saving as many lives as we can.
We pride ourselves on being an excellent employer – with only 16 employed staff we are small enough to feel like a family, but as we raise £3m a year to keep our service running, we are large enough to have a professional set-up and invest in our team members.
Although we think the biggest perk to working with us is knowing you are helping to save lives*, there are some other benefits for our employees:
25 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays, plus a day off near your birthday and at Christmas (non-contractual)
A 35 hour working week, with the option to pick your working hours between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday
A friendly, open plan office with as much tea and coffee as you can drink *(we know what’s important)
Free car parking, and access to pool cars, courtesy of Smart Bristol, for work trips
Pension contributions of up to 4% of eligible earnings
Laptop and smart phone for relevant roles
The chance to go to new places, meet interesting people and have experiences that you wouldn’t otherwise have!
Lottery Canvassers
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) is looking to expand the number of lottery canvassers in the region recruiting players for our highly successful weekly lottery.
there are vacancies for both part-time and full-time roles and any successful candidate will play a vital role as an ambassador of our charity. Your remit will be to engage with the public, either by canvassing door-to-door or by obtaining private site bookings, in the hope of getting people in the region to join our lottery for either £1 or £2 a week. You are free to choose your own hours of work and the regions within our boundaries that you recruit new members in, and most importantly you will be helping our fantastic charity generate some much-needed income.
The GWAAC weekly lottery is a vital source of revenue to the charity and we are aiming to expand our membership over the coming years. With all members joining by either direct debit or cheque payment, this regular income plays a vital part in keeping the charity flying. If the role is of interest to you, please contact Mark Harris on 0333 577 5707 or e-mail mark.harris@towerlotteries.com. Tower Lotteries run and administrate the draw on behalf of GWAAC.
Volunteers - Join our Ground Crew!
We’re also always looking to welcome new volunteers to our team. It’s the local people who kindly give up some of their precious time who mean we are able to keep saving local lives. Everyone who works here at GWAAC is committed, enthusiastic and dedicated to keeping us flying. We enjoy what we do because it really makes a difference – and we would love to have you as part of our team. Whether you would like to help out in our offices, would like to volunteer at a fundraising event, or put on an event of your own, we would love to hear from you. Can you help us save lives?