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Community Cafe Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 28 August 2024
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 27 September 2024
Location: TN35 4AD
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Groundwork South
Job type: Contract
Job reference: BHCA24

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Summary

Location: The Bale House, Hastings Country Park, TN35 4AD.
Contract: Zero hours and P/T roles available
Salary: Up to £12.40 per hour (depending on experience)
Hours: Various shifts available, you will be required to work some weekends and bank holidays.

The Bale House Cafe is a small, but very busy destination café located within Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve known for its outstanding views, beauty and rare flora and fauna. The Bale House is the first public straw bale building constructed in Hastings and provides an exciting facility for visitors to the park to find out about this special landscape. Whether for eating, meeting, walking or learning The Bale House is a place for everyone, with things to discover every day.

This post will contribute towards developing a vibrant community café providing a comfortable, welcoming and inclusive meeting place for residents and visitors to enjoy good quality, healthy and affordable refreshments and shared activities throughout the year.

You will provide a welcoming front of house service, providing excellent customer service and quality food and beverages to local community and visitors from around the country and world. In addition, to welcome visitors to the nature reserve you may be required to answer questions about the local area and support them in finding the information they need when visitor centre volunteers and staff are unavailable. Full training will be provided.

As we are located in the country park, please consider how you’d be able to get here for work, before applying for the job.

Please note, we reserve the right to close applications early in the event of a large response.

Groundwork South is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you. If you need any support or adjustments with your application or attendance at interview please let us know.

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