Cafe Assistant

Overview

JOB TITLE:

Café Assistant

HOURS:

15hrs over three days plus additional hours to cover sickness and holidays. There may also be the opportunity to help with some evening events, which usually fall on a Friday, plus other out of hours events.

• Support the supervisor in the running, organisation, and delivery of the onsite café at Ilminster Arts Centre.
• Help assist the café volunteers to ensure standards including food hygiene, customer service and health and safety are maintained.
• Help the cafe operation including assisting with food preparation, making drinks and serving food to customers.
• Ensure the highest standard of food quality and presentation.
• Processing customer orders.
• Cash handling and supporting café volunteers to take orders and process payments.
• Train and supervise café volunteers ensuring compliance with food hygiene standards, allergen awareness and health and safety.
• Maintain a clean and tidy environment at all times in the café and preparation areas including washing up.
• Cover the Café Supervisor’s duties in the event of illness or holidays, including food preparation, cashing up, routine cleaning and compliance with environmental health regulations.
• Perform any other duties that may reasonably be required as part of this job role.

• Experience of working in a team in a catering environment.
• Experience of processing payments and cash transactions.
• Excellent communication and customer care skills.
• Good numeracy and writing skills.
• Ability to work calmly under pressure.
• Neat and tidy personal appearance.
• Maintains and expects high standards of honesty and integrity.
• Willingness to be flexible.
• Prior completion of Food Hygiene Certificate Level 2 (up-to-date training can be provided).

• First Aid Certificate.
• Experience of working with volunteers.
• Food safety and hygiene certificate Level 3 (training can be provided).
• Barista experience.

• This is a fixed-term contract but may be extendable.
• The Arts Centre is currently open 9.30 am – 3 pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays.
• Standing for long periods is necessary and there may be work outside in summer months.
• Work entails reasonable lifting of heavy or bulky objects within published health and safety guidelines on manual handling.
• The Ilminster Arts Centre is a registered charity (1117698).

APPLICATIONS:
Please send your CV and a letter with details of:
Your previous experience, What you can bring to the Arts Centre café, Your availability in terms of a possible start date. Please email your application to  by no later than midday on Monday 16th February.

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