Our aim is to give every visitor a great day out. Car Park Assistants provide a helpful and friendly service to ensure an enjoyable, memorable and positive experience for each visitor, especially when the property is very busy at weekends and school holiday
What's involved?
• Making visitors feel welcome when they arrive and responding to the different needs of different people.
• Helping to set up the car park for busy days and litter picking as necessary.
• Helping to direct cars into the overflow car park when in use.
• Maintain a professional appearance for Standen car park through regular checks.
• Ensure that visitors park appropriately maximising the number of spaces.
• Knowing your way around the property, so that you can give directions and perhaps share a few of your own stories.
• Supporting Welcome staff with management of cars on the drive on busy days.
• Being part of a team that may need to adapt and change in response to local needs, National Trust priorities or changes to government guidelines e.g. Covid.
We want all our volunteers to feel welcome and to have an equally positive experience when volunteering with us. So, volunteers will:
• Be provided with the necessary induction, training, equipment and reasonable adjustments to do this role well and safely.
• Be offered expenses to cover agreed travel costs between home and place of volunteering.
• Have remote access to support, news and rotas via our volunteer website.
Skills
This role will suit you if you are...
• Friendly and enjoy meeting new people.
• Enjoy working outdoors.
• Confident and outgoing.
• Like helping others.
• Available to volunteer at weekends (including Bank Holidays) or in the school holidays
All National Trust volunteers will be asked to:
• Respect and uphold the National Trust values whilst volunteering with us.
• Complete training required of all NT volunteers and any role-specific training.
• Adhere to relevant policies and processes including safeguarding, health and safety, and equality and diversity.
Availability
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Afternoon | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Evening | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Location
Standen House and Garden
West Hoathly Road
East Grinstead
RH19 4NE