John Lewis to create 7,000 temporary roles across the UK this Christmas

John Lewis Partnership will recruit more than 7,000 temporary roles across the UK this Christmas in order to meet increased demand over the busy festive period.

In Waitrose, John Lewis will hire seasonal roles across its 331 shops, including supermarket assistants, night shift workers and customer delivery drivers and will also recruit temporary roles for its 34 John Lewis stores, including sales and merchandising positions.

In addition, it will also recruit more than 550 permanent full-time driver and warehouse partner roles across its distribution centres and Waitrose.com and John Lewis.com customer delivery centres.

Nikki Humphrey, John Lewis' people director, said: "We know that as the first Christmas after lockdown, customers will want to make it really special and we're throwing everything we can into helping them celebrate - our festive team will have a crucial role to play.

"We're looking for people who can deliver extraordinary service to help customers get what they need to celebrate. We look forward to welcoming people into our team across the country."