Overview
Cafe Assistant (fixed term) – Closing date: Friday 21 November 2025. Salary: £12.60 per hour (if 18 or over), £5,241 (pro rata) per annum (FTE £22,932). Contract type: Fixed term. Working hours: Part time. Location: College Lake, Upper Icknield Way, Bulbourne, Tring, Buckinghamshire, HP23 5QG.
Contract: Fixed Term until 31/03/2026. Hours: 8 hours per week, worked as 4 hours on a Saturday and 4 hours on a Sunday, with occasional bank holidays. Additional zero hours work may also be available to cover sickness and holidays. Based: College Lake Visitor Centre, Tring, Bucks.
BBOWT has a vision for “more nature everywhere, for everyone”. We’re committed to an inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong and can bring their whole self to work.
Responsibilities
- Food and drink preparation, including cooking a basic menu and baking
- Ensuring the cafe and visitor seating area is kept clean
- Providing an excellent level of customer service
- Assisting with stock rotation and reducing waste
- Cash handling and using a till
Qualifications and attributes
- Welcoming, approachable and self-assured in dealing with people
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective team player
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement with paid birthday leave, wellbeing days and generous occupational sick pay
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and family-friendly policies
- Flexible working to achieve work-life balance
- Pension (salary exchange) with generous employer contribution
- Learning & Development Programme for all (SEED)
- Wellbeing initiatives including Mental Health First Aiders, access to Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, online GP access and YuLife benefits
- Salary sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electric Vehicle scheme
- Membership to BBOWT and The Wildlife Trusts’ Staff Network Groups
How to apply
To apply, please read the job description and T&Cs below and follow the application link. This role is accepting applications on a rolling basis and the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy once a suitable applicant is found. Interviews will take place face to face at College Lake Visitor Centre on a rolling basis as applicants are shortlisted.
BBOWT values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We strive to provide reasonable adjustments during the selection process, including alternative formats or extra time for assessments and adjustments for interview.
Contact us on recruitment@bbowt.org.uk with any reasonable adjustments needed during the selection stages, including completing your application form.
You may be asked online questions relating to the skills required and role responsibilities. Responses will be anonymised, randomised and scored by a panel. Information about your background will be anonymised and used to help us measure equal opportunities metrics. All candidates will receive feedback on their application.
For more information about what we do, please visit our website.
We particularly encourage applications from people who are underserved within the communities in which we operate. This includes people from diverse backgrounds and those with different abilities. We are committed to an inclusive organisation that values individual differences.
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, The Lodge, 1 Armstrong Road, Littlemore, Oxford Oxon OX4 4XT
Contact Detail:
The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust Recruiting Team
