Cafes and Restaurant Assistant - Windermere, United Kingdom - Brockhole The Visitor Centre
Description
5 month fixed term contract until September 10th 2023
Are you looking for a new job filled with variety that keeps you busy? If you want a job that will excite and challenge you and offers you the opportunity to learn new skills whilst giving you lots of benefits then this might be the job for you.
You don't need to have previous catering experience, as we will provide full training, but you do need to want to learn, be willing to work hard and to serve customers with enthusiasm and a smile.
Following an award-winning year, where Brockhole-on-Windermere won 'Best Large Tourist Attraction', we are now looking to grow and diversify the service at our beautiful site, and we need cafe and restaurant assistants to help deliver our exceptional customer service to returning and new customers.
Do you want to:
- Work at one of the most exciting venues in the Lake District, at the heart of a World Heritage site, and still have most evenings off no more 11pm finishes
- Give top quality customer service to a variety of clientele.
- Working across a range of outlets from an award nominated restaurant and a very popular café to our fastpaced café outlets offering a variety of takeaway options.
- Work with a fantastic existing catering team.
- Have the security of working for the Lake District National Park and enjoy all of the employment benefits entailed competitive rates of pay, generous pension contributions and a friendly working environment.
- Our cafe outlets, Garden Shed and Lakeshore Cafe opened in the Summer of 2018 and have become very popular on site. The offerings of hot and cold drinks for takeaway along with icecream is very attractive for those walking around the grounds or in between the activities on offer.
- The main Brockhole Cafe is extremely busy and popular with families, looking for hearty lunches and delicious cakes served quickly and with a smile so they can get back out into the grounds and activities.
- With the Lake District now a designated World Heritage Site, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant contribution to the main visitor centre for the Lake District National Park, currently visited by over 300,000 people per year.
Reporting to the Brockholes Cafes Manager or their Deputy, Café Assistants will be responsible for:
- Making a variety of hot drinks.
- Consistent excellent customer service.
- Scooping ice creams if at one of the outlets.
- Drink and food running.
- Till operation.
- Packaging/labelling sandwiches.
- Maintaining stock levels within café outlets.
- Serving afternoon teas and lunches.
- Consistent excellent customer service.
- Potential evening event work.
- Learning about the produce from the kitchen team.
- Serving alcoholic beverages.
- Till operation.
- You will be happy and willing to learn.
- You will work well as part of a team.
- You can remain calm in busy environments.
- You will have a positive attitude.
- Your communication skills will be good.
- You will be flexible and willing to adapt in a fastchanging environment.
Benefits:
Working with us, you'll enjoy:
- Generous Pension Scheme.
- Paid time off so you can volunteer.
- Free Parking
- Subsidised healthcare scheme.
To Apply
Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunity's employer, the Lake District National Park Authority is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
These groups are under-represented at the LDNPA, particularly at senior level.Disability Confident Employer
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