Join Our Community Café Team!
Hours: 37 hours per week
Monday to Thursday: 7:30am to 3:30pm, Friday: 8:00am to 3:30pm
Are you passionate about food, great customer service, and making a positive difference in your local community?
We're looking for a friendly, enthusiastic and reliable Community Café Assistant to join our welcoming team at WestRaven Community Café & Garden. Working alongside our Café Manager and Assistant Chef, you'll help create a warm and inclusive environment where customers, volunteers and community members feel valued and supported.
This is more than just a café role. You'll play an important part in supporting a community space that brings people together and promotes wellbeing, inclusion and social connection.
What You'll Be Doing
- Supporting the day-to-day operation of the café.
- Carrying out food preparation, baking, cooking, and buffet production.
- Providing excellent customer service to all visitors.
- Maintaining high standards of food hygiene, cleanliness and safety.
- Supporting café opening and closing procedures and cash handling when required.
- Working with and supporting volunteers.
- Building positive relationships with people from all backgrounds, including children, older people and vulnerable individuals.
- Assisting with community events and activities.
- Helping us maintain an environmentally sustainable café.
- Running front of house and being a welcoming presence.
- Assisting or leading small community/work experience cooking sessions.
What We're Looking For
You will have:
- Experience working with food preparation, cooking, and handling food safely.
- A confident, positive, understanding, and helpful personality.
- An understanding of food hygiene standards.
- Previous experience in a customer-facing role.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- The ability to work well under pressure.
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
- Be willing to undertake an Enhanced DBS check
It Would Be Great If You Also Have:
- Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate.
- Level 2 Culinary Skills or Professional Cookery qualification (or equivalent).
If you enjoy working with people, have a passion for food and customer service, and want to be part of a café that makes a real difference in the community, we'd love to hear from you.
Help us create a welcoming community space where everyone feels they belong.
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The Company
A commercial business with a social heart, our vision is to create opportunities that change lives through our drive, expertise, resources and passion.
Our dynamic approach has made us one of the region’s leading providers of affordable homes for rent and sale. Developing new homes across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and the surrounding area, we’re committed to increasing the supply of affordable homes in the communities where they are needed most. Agility and innovation are central to our approach to adapting to change, and we’ll continue to grow our business in today’s fast-paced operating environment.
There’s more to building communities than building houses. In addition to providing quality homes and delivering excellent landlord services, we also provide care at home and at our two extra care communities in Peterborough as well as around the clock support through our LifeLine personal alarm service. Our community investment programme sees us working with specialist partners to bring a range of employment, wellbeing and family-friendly services to the heart of our communities, with a rapidly expanding digital support offer too.
You can find out more about us and the services we offer our residents on the CKH website.
Putting People First
CKH actively seeks to continue to build an inclusive environment for its employees and the communities it serves and welcomes applications from people from all backgrounds.
At CKH, everything we do is about the people who live in our homes and access our services. So, we know we need the best people to deliver the outstanding services and support our communities deserve. No matter where your career with us takes you, you’ll be part of a team that makes a difference and creates opportunities that change lives.
As well as working to create sustainable, prosperous communities, we’re also keen to build a workplace community where you can feel supported by colleagues and enjoy your time at work. With a broad range of backgrounds and experience, our team is united by our shared values: action, commitment, excellence, integrity and teamwork. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Benefits
We know we need to provide a great working environment to attract the best people.
Our offer includes:
- A great pension scheme: we will double your contribution up to a maximum of 10%, plus Life Cover.
- Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 25 days, increasing with length of service, plus bank holidays.
- Flexible family-friendly and carers’ policies, offering a range of paid and unpaid leave options.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- CKH Rewards benefits platform, including cashback on purchases, instant vouchers and reloadable gift cards.
- Westfield Health, providing access to a range of benefits such as 24-hour DoctorLine, Employee Assistance Programme, and money back for glasses and dental treatment (after probation).
Community Cafe Assistant in Peterborough employer: Cross Keys
CKH is an exceptional employer that prioritises the well-being of its employees while making a significant impact in the community. With a strong commitment to inclusivity, a supportive work culture, and generous benefits such as a robust pension scheme and flexible family-friendly policies, CKH fosters an environment where employees can thrive and grow. Located in Peterborough, this role offers the unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that change lives, all while enjoying a collaborative atmosphere focused on excellence and teamwork.
