Tesco
Tesco Colleague - Lincoln 2 Extra
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Tesco Colleague - Lincoln 2 Extra
About the Role
Availability Window
| Days | From time | To time |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | 06:00:00 | 12:00:00 |
| Mon | 06:00:00 | 12:00:00 |
| Tue | 06:00:00 | 12:00:00 |
| Sat | 06:00:00 | 12:00:00 |
Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from £13.28 an hour. This increases to £14.55 for stores located within the M25. Additional payments may also apply, depending on location. We guarantee a minimum of 16 hours of work each week for new colleagues, but we also offer opportunities for fewer hours (a minimum of 12) if that better suits your needs.
The table above displays the periods of time we’d like you to be available for work. We’ll schedule your contracted hours within these time windows and provide 3 weeks' notice before sharing your shift rota. While we always aim to match your availability closely, if you’re flexible within roughly similar times, we’d still be delighted to hear from you.
Tesco is all about serving our customers. This is a role for those who thrive in a busy, vibrant environment, tackling diverse challenges with commitment and a can-do attitude. As a store colleague, you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring every customer has a satisfying shopping experience.
You’ll be part of a specialist, diverse team where everyone is valued, and you’ll have opportunities to:
- collaborate with colleagues,
- learn new skills,
- and grow within a stable or flexible career structure.
PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST BE OVER 18 TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE.
Responsibilities
- Know your customers intimately and serve them with passion and pride, ensuring they experience great natural service.
- Be passionate and knowledgeable about the products and services within your store.
- Work across various sections of the store, including:
- Service areas,
- Picking,
- or replenishment roles as required.
- Implement received training to maintain safety, efficiency, and outstanding customer service standards.
- Make customer-centred decisions, delivering store routines tailored to meet their needs at the right time.
- Participate in seasonal, community, and charity events, fostering an inclusive atmosphere.
- Monitor and understand your store’s performance, driving service and sales improvements, reducing waste, minimising shrink, and delivering profitability.
- Handle products with care to ensure they remain in optimal condition for customers.
- Lead by example, embodying our values, ensuring everyone feels welcome, and adhering to policies at all times.
- Occasionally assist with deliveries into the store when required.
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Requirements
- A fundamental passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride.
- The ability to build rapport with shoppers, ensuring they leave our stores feeling positively about their experience.
- Initiative and the ability to make smart, customer-centric decisions.
- Comfortable working efficiently on their own and harmoniously with others.
- Excellent communicators who thrive in a team environment and celebrate their colleagues’ successes.
- Always presentable and prepared to act as a brand ambassador for Tesco.
- Willingness to start early or work extended hours under requirements (see note about age).
Benefits
- Starter Holiday Entitlement: Begin with 20 days plus one personal day, which rises to 22 days after 12 months of service (excluding Bank Holidays).
- Request flexible working arrangements from day one.
- 10% off all groceries + 15% off at payday weekends using your Tesco Colleague Clubcard, saving you up to £2,000 annually. An additional family card is also provided for your domestic members.
- Access to free wellbeing services, including a range of resources for mental and physical support.
- Life cover of five times your pay, coupled with an award-winning pension scheme – your contributions are matched by Tesco up to 7.5%.
- Flexible benefits package: select from:
- Discounts on travel and non-grocery purchases,
- Cycle-to-work schemes,
- Share schemes, to suit your preferences.
- Provide high-quality uniforms to help you look and feel professional.
- Supportive arrangements for life’s special moments.
- Access to colleague networks for peer support, community, and engagement across diverse backgrounds.
For further details regarding benefits, visit the Tesco colleagues’ site.
About Us – Our Vision and Purpose
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Our vision is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether shopping at home or on the go. The essence of Tesco lies in our core purpose: “Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.”
This means more than a simple buyer-seller transaction with our customers. Our commitment extends to being a responsibly sustainable business, positively impacting all stakeholders – the communities in which we live and operate, and the planet we share.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
At Tesco, we believe that whoever you are and whatever background you come from, you should always feel represented and comfortable bringing your true self to work. Ultimately, our ethos is simple: "Everyone’s Welcome."
Flexible possibilities matter to us. Life is shaped differently for each individual, so we value conversations around flexible working arrangements. Be it someone in the early stages of their career, wanting future freedom to explore new passions, preparing for parenthood, nearing retirement, or adapting to life’s transformations – let’s discuss what support we can offer from the beginning of your application.
Awards and Accreditation
Tesco proudly holds the Disability Confident Employer status. We’re committed to fostering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For comprehensive details on our accessibility measures and support processes, visit here.
Important Notes
- Age Limit: Tesco may only recruit individuals who have passed their school-leaving age. To determine eligibility rules for your country, click here.
- Age Restriction for Specific Roles: Applicants under 18 must refrain when the role involves:
- Working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm
- Deliveries,
- Warehouse tasks,
- Beers, wines, and spirits,
- Counters,
- Bakery operations, or
- Driving functions.
- Job Application Response: For roles receiving high candidate volumes, we might close applications earlier than advertised to manage workload appropriately. We can only provide individual interview feedback to successful shortlisted applicants.
- For further information about Tesco, visit our website.
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