Casual Catering Assistant

**Job description**

**Post: Casual Brockhole Cafes and Restaurant Assistant**

**Location: Brockhole Visitor Centre, Windermere**

**Wage: £11.66 per hour**

Are you looking for a new job filled with variety that keeps you busy? If you want a job that will excite and challenge you and offers you the opportunity to learn new skills whilst giving you lots of benefits then this might be the job for you. You don’t need to have previous catering experience, as we will provide full training, but you do need to want to learn, be willing to work hard and to serve customers with enthusiasm and a smile.

Following an award-winning year, where Brockhole-on-Windermere won ‘Best Large Tourist Attraction’, we are now looking to grow and diversify the service at our beautiful site, and we need cafe and restaurant assistants to help deliver our exceptional customer service to returning and new customers.

**Do you want to**:

- Work at one of the most exciting venues in the Lake District, at the heart of a World Heritage site, and still have most evenings off - no more 11pm finishes
- (Outlets close around 5:30pm in high season and the café shuts at 4pm in winter - apart from private evening events)_
- Give top quality customer service to a variety of clientele.
- Working across a range of outlets - from an award nominated restaurant and a very popular café to our fast-paced café outlets offering a variety of takeaway options.
- Work with a fantastic existing catering team.
- Have the security of working for the Lake District National Park and enjoy all of the employment benefits entailed - competitive rates of pay, generous pension contributions and a friendly working environment.

**What’s it like to work here?**
- Our cafe outlets, Garden Shed and Lakeshore Cafe opened in the Summer of 2018 and have become very popular on site. The offerings of hot and cold drinks for takeaway along with ice-cream is very attractive for those walking around the grounds or in between the activities on offer.
- The main Brockhole Cafe is extremely busy and popular with families, looking for hearty lunches and delicious cakes served quickly and with a smile so they can get back out into the grounds and activities.
- With the Lake District now a designated World Heritage Site, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant contribution to the main visitor centre for the Lake District National Park, currently visited by over 300,000 people per year.

**Roles & Responsibilities**

Reporting to the Brockholes Cafes Manager or their Deputy, Café Assistants will be responsible for:

- Making a variety of hot drinks.
- Consistent excellent customer service.
- Scooping ice creams if at one of the outlets.
- Drink and food running.
- Till operation.
- Packaging/labelling sandwiches.
- Maintaining stock levels within café outlets.

**Contact**

If you wish to have an informal discussion or have any queries please contact Daniel Bradley, Food and Hospitality Operations and Development Manager on 01539440267.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Casual Contract

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 37 per week

Pay: £11.66 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount

Day range:

- Holidays
- Weekend availability

Physical setting:

- Café
- Fast casual restaurant
- Fine dining restaurant
- Food truck
- Quick service & fast food restaurant
- Restaurant
- Upscale casual restaurant

Shift:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Windermere, LA23 1LJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Catering Assistant