Café Assistant

**About the role**

**Café Assistant - Weald Country Park**

Fixed Term, Part Time

Up to £22,361 per annum (FTE)

Location: Brentwood

Working Style: Fixed-base worker

**Please note, this is a fixed term contract position for a period of 6 months. This is an As and When position to provide support to the country park team. The salary will be pro rata-ed based on the hours offered.**

**The Role**

Essex County Council are recruiting for someone to work within our visitor centre at Weald Country Park. Weald is located within more than 300 acres of beautiful Essex countryside with the visitor centre acting as the hub for visitors for refreshments and information. Please use the links below to find our more about our park.

Weald Country Park

**The Opportunity**

As a Café Assistant, you will ensure a clean, safe, tidy, and welcoming environment for customers to buy and consume food within the Cafe based at Weald Country Park.

You will be serving customers with food and drink, and undertaking basic food preparation, in accordance with food safety regulations. You will also be washing up, clearing tables, general day to day cleaning, along with structured deep cleaning according to health and safety standards.

You will be responsible for identifying tasks and ensuring these are completed to a high standard, operating tills and handling cash, and supporting with stocktaking and stock movement to ensure consumables are used and maintained correctly.

You will be responsible for complying with all health and safety rules ensuring the proper use and care of protective clothing and equipment.

As a café assistant you will provide an excellent customer experience by offering help and support to visitors.

**The Experience You Will Bring**
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
- Experience of working within a Catering environment, delivering excellent customer service
- Good communication skills, with the ability to prioritise workload, and work well within a team.

To read more about us please visit: Climate, Environment and Customer Services

**Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, **or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.**

**Why Essex?**

Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

**What you should do next**

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