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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.

INDMED

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 and the on the CKH website.

Members of the National Housing Federation, PlaceShapers, Homes for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the CBI and BuildEast.