Café Assistant (Waiter/ Waitress)

ROLE: Café Assistant (Waiter/ Waitress)

SALARY: £6.95 per hour for 20 years and under, £8.20 per hour 21-24 years, £8.72 25 years and over

HOURS:  Weekends and holidays

CONTRACT TYPE: Zero hours

OPERATIONAL AREA:  Sussex & Surrey

LOCATION: Tilgate, Crawley

REF:  SS06

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

At community charity, Groundwork South, we are changing places, changing lives across the South of England, one green step at a time

Join our close knit team at The Walled Garden Café Bar in Tilgate Park, Crawley. We currently have vacancies for Waitresses and Servers to join our hospitality team. If you are enthusiastic, bubbly and looking for an opportunity we can offer positions in Waiting, running food orders or serving in our licensed Cafe Bar.

You will be responsible for assisting the café manager and supervisors with the day-to-day operations and busy festive events, which includes preparing both hot and cold drinks, ensuring the café is well stocked, providing a safe and clean environment for our staff to work in and ensuring that our customers’ needs are met, making sure their visit was perfect.

We are looking for:

  • Excellent customer service skills
  • A welcoming, engaging and attentive manner
  • A passion for food
  • The ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong attention to detail
  • A strong team ethic and the drive help others
  • The ability to recommend our products with genuine passion

No evening work will be required and with excellent rates of pay and your own uniform also provided. You will be needed weekends and during our busiest times school, college/ university holidays.

Job Description and Person Specification

To apply email your CV to Louise Bucknell louise.bucknell@groundwork.org.uk .

Interview date to be confirmed on receipt of application.

We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. To demonstrate our commitment we have been awarded the Disability Confident Scheme Symbol, which is awarded by the Employment Service. We guarantee an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential criteria for the post. If you consider yourself to have a disability and would like to apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the Guaranteed Interview Scheme form (at the top of our current vacancies page) and submit this with your application. We shall ensure fairness and equal opportunities throughout our workforce and in service delivery.

Groundwork South is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion or age. A copy of our Equality and Diversity policy may also be made available to candidates on request.