Windsor Farm Shop Assistant
Advert Close date: 12th September 2025
Join The Crown Estate team at the Windsor Farm Shop as a Farm Shop Assistant!
This is a permanent and full-time role working 40 hours per week 5 days out of 7 on a rota (working either Saturday or Sunday each weekend).
The Crown Estate is a prestigious organisation that manages an extensive portfolio of properties across the UK, including historic landmarks, retail spaces, and natural environments. We are committed to excellence, sustainability, and providing exceptional experiences for our visitors. As part of our team, you will contribute to maintaining the high standards and reputation of The Crown Estate.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to join our team at the Windsor Farm Shop. Windsor Farm Shop offers a wide range of products sourced from British speciality producers, local artisans and the Windsor Farms. Founded by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 2001, we enjoy a unique position on the edge of the stunning Windsor Estate, housed within converted potting sheds which date back to the reign of Queen Victoria.
We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional customer service and maintaining the highest standards of presentation and food hygiene. If you are passionate about providing a memorable experience for our visitors, we would love to hear from you!
Purpose of the role: This varied and flexible role involves providing support to retail and deli operations, ensuring an exceptional customer experience, and maintaining the highest standards of service and presentation.
Main Accountabilities:
- Offer an engaging and friendly welcome to customers.
- Operate the till in line with procedures.
- Ensure facilities are inviting and safe for visitors, including litter picking, checking toilets, and emptying bins.
- Maintain stock knowledge to offer advice to customers and maximize sales opportunities.
- Respond to and deal with customer enquiries.
- Support stock operations as required.
- Conduct all duties in a professional and safe manner, adhering to relevant risk assessments and safe systems of work.
- Complete health and safety checklists in line with Crown Estate policies and procedures.
- Operate consistently in line with our customer service standards.
- Contribute to improvements in customer service and overall operations.
- Ensure adherence to Crown Estate policies and procedures, including cash handling, uniform, and lost property.
- Undertake any other duties necessary to ensure delivery of customer service across Windsor Farm Shop operations.
Knowledge, Experience, and Skills:
- Strong customer service ethos.
- Experience working in a busy, front-line customer service environment desirable.
- Proven track record in an environment where the customer comes first desirable.
- Good communicator, confident, friendly, and approachable with the ability to engage with a wide variety of people.
- Flexible and versatile approach to provide support wherever and whenever needed.
- Organised with the ability to work on own initiative and effectively problem solve.
- Team player.
- IT literate.
- Food Hygiene level 2 desirable.
- Physically able to handle stock.
- Adaptable and collaborative style.
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
- Department
- Windsor & Rural
- Locations
- Windsor
Windsor
Our Perks & Benefits
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28 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore, we offer everybody 28 days paid holiday, 2 volunteering days and the option to purchase further holiday.
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Flexible working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible & hybrid working policies.
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Market leading family friendly policies
We want the support we offer to be inclusive of everyone, reflective of the wide range of situations people face in life.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
It’s our ambition to be an inclusive organisation that reflects our society, one where all feel welcome, able to be themselves and belong.
A workplace where you’re empowered to be yourself, diverse thinking is encouraged, and a place where you can realise your potential.
About The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
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