Job Description

This volunteer role at St Giles Trust involves driving and delivering food to the Camberwell Pantry from The Felix Project depot, ensuring safety, compliance, and courteous interactions. The Pantry supports clients with affordable, healthy food for up to six months as part of a broader mission to combat poverty and empower communities.

Responsible to:

Pantry Team Leader

Responsible for:

Food Collection & Delivery

Hours:

Tuesday 8:30am - 2pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 10:30am
Friday 8:30am - 10:30am (2:30pm once monthly)"

Grade:

Volunteer

Location:

Start & finish at Camberwell Head Office, 64-68 Camberwell Church St SE5 8JB

Holiday:

Salary:

Volunteer

Application Deadline:

Wednesday 3rd September 2025
We will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis. We reserve the right to close this position at any time.




Please note this role requires Basic DBS Check
St Giles Trust is a Charity helping people facing severe disadvantage to find jobs, homes, and the right support they need. We help them to become positive contributors to local communities and wider society. We passionately believe everybody is capable of changing their lives. Our mission is we empower people to overcome injustices for themselves, their families and their local communities - we achieve this through offering support from someone who has been there. Our peer-led services form the backbone of our work.


You will be responsible for the food delivery to our Camberwell Pantry via The Felix Project depot in Deptford. The Pantry is a Social Supermarket which will support clients to access affordable and healthy food each week (for a maximum of six months). The Pantry offers both a responsive solution and a sustainable route out of poverty, ensuring people can access healthy food whilst getting the support they need. This role will be supporting the Pantries by ensuring food is safely and promptly delivered to our Camberwell Pantry.


You will be part of a comprehensive Pantry team service delivering across St Giles Trust that is mindful of, and promotes the organisation's Vision, Mission, Values and strategic aims.

(1) Key Deliverables

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Main responsibilities consist of:

Driving safely between St Giles Pantry, Camberwell and Felix Project depot in Deptford. Loading vehicle with food in line with food safety and manual handling regulations. Ensuring vehicle is checked for safety and cleanliness before each shift. Reporting any incidents with management. Being polite and courteous to other volunteers who may be accompanying deliveries. Calmly reacting to changing scenarios, such as traffic; #

Deliveries -

On the road and at the Pantries you will be representing St Giles and so you'll:

Drive safely, responsibly and within the law. Be courteous to all road users. Be courteous to all staff, volunteers and members.
For some of your journeys you will be autonomous, collecting and delivering food, whilst receiving support with unloading on arrival. At all times you will ensure that you are following St Giles health and safety policy and food safety standards protocols to consistently ensure safe collection and delivery of food is maintained.

(2) Person specification

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When completing your application form please address the points marked with (A) set out below.#

Experience

A full and valid driving licence. (A) You must be physically fit to be able to manually load heavy items into a van. (A) Experience of working in a similar van delivery role, preferably in food distribution and use of chilled vehicles. #

Knowledge

Food safety & hygiene qualification or willingness to work towards one. (A) Manual handling training (desirable) #

Skills & Abilities

Problem-solving skill and the ability to make effective decisions 'on the spot' (A) Good interpersonal skills. (A) Physically fit and an awareness of safety issues especially when driving, loading and unloading vehicles. (A) #

Attitude

Respect for the values and ethos of St Giles Trust. (A) Personal and professional integrity. Positive attitude towards staff and volunteers. (A)

(3) About Us

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In St Giles, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.


We are an equity and inclusion-confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi-heritage) and those who identify as disabled, nonresponsive, or neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.


St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the for the vacancy.

Ready to Apply?

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1.

Click HERE to download

the application form.
2. Complete the application form, including the personal statement in relation to the job description.
3. Once completed, please return it by email to humanresources@stgilestrust.org.uk. Please include the Job Title and Job Code in your email subject.
4. The deadline for this job application is

Wednesday, 3rd September 2025 at 11.00pm.

This job description is a statement of requirements at the time of writing and is not contractual. It should not be seen as precluding future changes after appointment to this role.