Apprentice Retail Supervisor
FARMFOODS LIMITED
Chesterfield (S44 6DJ)
Closes in 18 days (Monday 26 January 2026)
Posted on 6 January 2026
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Summary
Are you ambitious and looking for a new career working in retail? Farmfoods are looking to recruit an Apprentice Trainee Supervisor at their Bolsover store. If you are welcoming, helpful and friendly with a desire to learn new skills, then this could be the perfect role for you. Apply today!
- Wage
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£23,860 a year
- Training course
- Team leader (level 3)
- Hours
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35 hours a week. Working 5 days out of 7. Shifts varying which will include weekends.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 February 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Make all of our customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello
- Help customers find the items they are looking for
- Give a fast and friendly service at the tills, always offering help to pack and leaving a good impression with a friendly thank you and goodbye
- Handle stock with care whilst working deliveries, quickly placing products into our freezers and onto our shelves ready for our customers to buy
- Work with the rest of your team to complete the daily and weekly routines that keep our shops clean and tidy
- Open and close the shop, handle cash, place orders and support your manager in leading the team to run an efficient shop and provide great service to our customers
Where you'll work
UNIT 4 SYKES RETAIL PARK
BOLSOVER
Chesterfield
S44 6DJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
INSPIRO LEARNING LIMITED
Training course
Team leader (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Use resources to implement operational and team plans.
- Use tools to organise, prioritise and allocate daily and weekly work activities.
- Able to collate and interpret data and information and create reports.
- Identify and support the development of the team through informal coaching and continuous professional development.
- Use information and problem-solving techniques to provide solutions and influence the decision-making process.
- Use digital tools for planning and project management to monitor project progress, taking corrective action to deliver against the project plan.
- Review work processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and for continuous improvement.
- Use technology and software to produce documentation, such as spreadsheets and presentation packages to communicate information.
- Manage individual or team performance by setting objectives, monitoring progress, and providing clear guidance and feedback.
- Manage others through change by identifying challenges and the activities to resolve them.
- Interpret organisational strategy and communicate how this impacts others.
- Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practices, and advise stakeholders on their application.
- Communicate information through different media, such as face-to-face meetings, emails, reports, and presentations to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Collaborate with stakeholders in the organisation to ensure the delivery of operational goals.
- Manage and maintain relationships with a diverse workforce and stakeholders.
- Negotiate with and challenge stakeholders to manage change and reduce conflict.
- Interpret policy and support the delivery of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and monitor their impact on their team.
- Identify future changes in the sector such as technology advances that may impact their organisation.
- Monitor the use of technology and the potential to reduce energy consumption through their optimisation in day-to-day tasks, such as reducing the use of paper and switching off items when not in use.
- Use resources to implement operational and team plans.
- Use tools to organise, prioritise and allocate daily and weekly work activities.
- Able to collate and interpret data and information and create reports.
- Identify and support the development of the team through informal coaching and continuous professional development.
- Use information and problem-solving techniques to provide solutions and influence the decision-making process.
- Use digital tools for planning and project management to monitor project progress, taking corrective action to deliver against the project plan.
- Review work processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and for continuous improvement.
- Use technology and software to produce documentation, such as spreadsheets and presentation packages to communicate information.
- Manage individual or team performance by setting objectives, monitoring progress, and providing clear guidance and feedback.
- Manage others through change by identifying challenges and the activities to resolve them.
- Interpret organisational strategy and communicate how this impacts others.
- Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practices, and advise stakeholders on their application.
- Communicate information through different media, such as face-to-face meetings, emails, reports, and presentations to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Collaborate with stakeholders in the organisation to ensure the delivery of operational goals.
- Manage and maintain relationships with a diverse workforce and stakeholders.
- Negotiate with and challenge stakeholders to manage change and reduce conflict.
- Interpret policy and support the delivery of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and monitor their impact on their team.
- Identify future changes in the sector such as technology advances that may impact their organisation.
- Monitor the use of technology and the potential to reduce energy consumption through their optimisation in day-to-day tasks, such as reducing the use of paper and switching off items when not in use.
Training schedule
The apprentice will be visited by a Regional Trainer from Inspiro Learning in the workplace who will do workplace observations and set the apprentice's online work assessments to complete. The visits take place on a 4-weekly basis.
More training information
The apprentice will be supported through their qualification by Inspiro learning, Farmfoods' approved training provider.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Leadership Skills
Other requirements
- Friendly
- Positive
- Hardworking
- Work well as an individual and as part of a team
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
About this employer
Farmfoods are a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail.
We aim to offer sensational value to customers on a great range of everyday family-oriented goods. We back up our sensational value with a focus on delivering an ‘old fashioned’, genuine and friendly customer experience.
Our retail apprentices are very important. They each serve hundreds of customers each week and have the reputation of Farmfoods in their hands. To our customers, they are Farmfoods.
After this apprenticeship
There are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have some great training programmes in place and only promote to Shop and Area Manager positions from within. Many people in management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our shops, so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you. This vacancy will become permanent upon completion of your apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INSPIRO LEARNING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007039.
Apply now
Closes in 18 days (Monday 26 January 2026)
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