Barista

**Barista**

Stokes Tea and Coffee are delighted to be opening a new café in Newark and become part of the wonderful community. We are now searching for enthusiastic, driven and skilled Baristas, who understand the importance and joy of coffee and customer service.

**Who We Are**

The award-winning Stokes Tea & Coffee has over 120 years of passion and know-how in sourcing, roasting and blending its tea and coffee, supplying businesses locally and across the UK. We operate five destination cafés across Lincolnshire. Each café offers a unique ambience, quality produce and of course the best coffee, which we roast on site, at The Lawn. Alongside this, our sister companies, The Blue Room and Charlotte House Hotel, offer beautiful event spaces to suit every visitor and occasion, so there are plenty of career opportunities to explore.

At Stokes we are passionate about our people, customers and communities and are constantly evolving to meet the challenges of a changing world, ethically, sustainably and responsibly. We have committed to use business as a force of good and are on a journey towards BCorp Certification. We want to partner and grow with our team members by offering a supportive work environment that provides better work-life balance, a learning culture to enhance skills, share knowledge and develop your career, as well as offer fair reward. Our management pathway is open to all team members who consistently demonstrate Stokes’s behaviours and values.

**What You’ll Be Doing**

As a Stokes barista you will be asked to deliver the superb British hospitality that Stokes is synonymous with. You will be preparing a range of drinks to the highest standard using our fantastic products, so a minimum of one year experience as a barista is essential. To take your skills to the next level, you will be provided with training, including training at our prestigious Barista Academy. Front of House experience will be a bonus, though all team members are cross-trained to enable you to support your team, when needed, to deliver our friendly, but efficient Stokes table service.

All of our cafes open 7 days a week, so weekend working is essential.

**What We Are Looking For**

Confident, enthusiastic and customer-focused individuals who love the art and science of coffee and want to learn more. You understand the importance of precision and care in delivering delicious coffee to each and every customer.

If you an experienced, passionate barista, with a calm, but friendly demeanor, who wants to work for an ambitious, community-minded organisation that genuinely offers support, excellent training and work-life balance, then this is the organisation and role for you.
- Minimum of 1 year barista experience
- Confident, approachable team player
- Outstanding customer service skills and experience
- Common-sense and ability to prioritise
- Ability to work calmly and systematically in a fast-paced environment
- Flexibility required across the week with regular weekend working and some limited evening shifts

**What we offer**
- Daytime hours
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Food and drinks (on shift)
- Employee high-street discounts
- Staff socials
- Supportive team environment
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Training offered
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Store discount
- Bereavement Leave

**How to apply**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Zero hours contract

Pay: £12.21 per hour

Expected hours: 10 - 35 per week

Additional pay:

- Tips

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free fitness classes
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- Are there any days in the week, including weekends, that you cannot work?
- What is your best asset as a barista?

Work Location: In person