Casual Café Assistant at Carlton Marshes

2 days ago


Lowestoft, United Kingdom Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts Full time

Closing date: Monday 27 October 2025
- Salary: £12.21 per hour plus holiday pay

Contract type: Casual / Working hours: Flexible- Location:

- **Carlton Marshes Nature Reserve & Visitor Centre**,***:Carlton Marshes
Burnt Hill Lane
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR33 8HU

Carlton Marshes - John Lord
- We have an opportunity for a Café Assistant to join us at our visitor centre at Carlton Marshes on a casual worker basis.

Since being founded in 1961, Suffolk Wildlife Trust has led the way in conservation across Suffolk, protecting some of the county's most important wildlife areas. As a grassroots organisation, we’re passionate about ‘Bringing nature back’ by inspiring and empowering local communities to care for and act on behalf of nature, while managing our 50 nature reserves and advocating for wildlife.

As the Café Assistant, the post holder will deliver excellent customer care and high standards of service in the preparation and presentation of food and beverages, ensuring Carlton Marshes Visitor Centre is presented positively to visitors. The Café Assistant will play a key role in enhancing the visitor experience, promoting Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s mission and supporting the café’s commercial success - all of which is reinvested in to our conservation and recovery work.

The post holder will as part of the Carlton team to promote a welcoming atmosphere for visitors, actively encouraging them to support or become a Member of Suffolk Wildlife Trust, discover our activities and the wider reserve or get involved in volunteering across our many opportunities available.

Aerial view of Carlton Marshes - Mike Page Photography

Credit Lynne Warner

Image credit: John Ferguson

Centre staff and volunteers tour of Carlton

Ponies at Carlton Marshes - Lewis Yates

Carlton Marshes Visitor Centre

The role is on a casual worker basis based at Carlton Marshes near Lowestoft. Available hours offered will be during the visitor centre hours (Monday to Sunday 9:00am to 5:00pm) covering weekdays. weekends, bank holidays and school holidays.

Under a casual worker agreement there are no set hours of work. Hours worked the rate of pay will be £12.21 per hour plus holiday pay.

**Supporting Documents**:
- Recruitment Pack-
- Role DescriptionSuffolk Wildlife Trust is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is welcome. As a conservation charity, we recognise the importance of diversity in both nature and our workforce of staff and volunteers. We strive to ensure that everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute to our vision of “A Wilder Suffolk where nature is thriving and abundant because everyone is doing more to help”.



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