Cafe Assistant

BaptistCare; Sydney; On-site; AUD 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Health & wellbeing benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

BaptistCare’s Gracewood Community café seeks a friendly Café Assistant to help deliver warm, welcoming service and quality coffee. You will work across front and back-of-house tasks in a supportive team focused on community care and customer experience.

The role offers permanent part-time hours, with daily shifts Monday to Friday, providing opportunities to develop cafe skills and contribute to a values-driven organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in café front-of-house and back-of-house operations.
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Barista skills with ability to make quality coffee.
• Warm, welcoming, and supportive attitude toward customers and team.
• Aligned with BaptistCare's purpose, values and approach.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and serve food and drinks with a smile.
• Craft quality coffee and operate the espresso equipment.
• Provide friendly and welcoming customer service.
• Take orders and operate the POS/EFTPOS terminals.
• Maintain a clean, safe and well-organised café workspace.
• Ensure compliance with food safety standards.

Skills

Barista skills

Customer service

FOH/BOH experience

Tools

POS terminal

EFTPOS machine

Job description

Café Assistant - The Gracewood Community

Permanent part-time - working 4.5 hours per day, Monday to Friday.

Do you love creating a welcoming experience and connecting with people? Are you passionate about great customer service, quality food and coffee? Do you want to join a supportive and values-driven organisation?

If you answered yes, we have a rewarding opportunity to join the café team at The Gracewood Community!

Key Benefits

• Earn $29.98 per hour + superannuation, plus access to salary packaging which may increase your take-home pay
• A comprehensive range of Employee Benefits from health & wellness to professional development opportunities
• Supportive team culture where your contributions matter
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career

About the Role

Based at our beautiful The Gracewood Community, you will be part of our café team, helping to create a warm and welcoming environment for our customers.

This is a varied role where you will provide friendly customer service, prepare and serve food and drinks, make quality coffee and assist with the day-to-day operation of the café.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Prepare and serve food and drinks with a smile
• Craft quality coffee using your barista skills
• Provide friendly and welcoming customer service
• Take orders and operate the point-of-sale terminal and EFTPOS machine
• Maintain a clean and safe café environment, ensuring equipment is kept in good condition
• Maintain the service area in accordance with food safety standards

This is a Permanent part-time opportunity offering 22.5 hours per week, working 4.5 hours per day, Monday to Friday.

What You'll Bring

You will have all-round café experience across both front and back of house, including barista skills. You will have a warm and welcoming nature, strong customer service skills and empathy for older people, along with a genuine alignment to BaptistCare's purpose, vision and values.

If you enjoy working in a café environment, connecting with people and helping create a positive experience for customers, we'd love to hear from you!

About Us

BaptistCare is a leading purpose-led care organisation, guided by our Christian identity and serving people and communities across Australia for more than 110 years. We support people to live better through aged care, home care, retirement living, community services, disability support and housing. We know that life's challenges can make our world feel smaller. With the right people alongside us, it can feel more connected, supported and hopeful again. That's what we work towards every day - enriching lives through communities of care. Today, more than 78,000 customers, 12,000 employees and close to 2,000 volunteers are part of our communities across Australia.

BaptistCare - Inspired by Jesus to champion care for all

The Employee Benefits are endless when you join BaptistCare! Enjoy access to salary packaging which may increase your take-home pay, novated leasing, rewards and recognition, programs to support your wellbeing, employee referral program and retail discounts to name a few.