Barista

Thomas Franks Ltd; Hereford; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering business in Hereford is seeking a barista to join their team. The role involves creating high-quality coffee, maintaining food safety standards, and ensuring excellent customer service. Candidates should have prior barista experience, along with good verbal and written English skills. The position offers a vibrant work environment with various benefits, including free meals on duty, ongoing training, and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Volunteers leave

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Training and development

Apprenticeship programme

Company social events

Employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer and/or food preparation environment is preferred.
• Good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Good standard of written English and reading skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce the best barista coffee for staff and visitors.
• Ensure food standards and wastage control.
• Follow all food hygiene and health & safety policies.
• Stock and rotate retail items regularly.
• Set up the location for daily operations.
• Manage payments and cash handling.
• Conduct daily stock takes.
• Provide excellent customer service.
• Be a personable, fun team player.

Skills

Barista experience

Teamwork

Customer service

Food hygiene knowledge

Verbal communication

Job description

Overview

A co-educational specialist residential college of further education based in the English city of Hereford. Catering for around 100 students and teachers. We offers a Delivered breakfast, lunch and Supper. This is a Monday to Sunday operation with lots of hospitality. Additional benefits of this location is free parking and discounted gym membership for on-site facilities.

Responsibilities

• To work well in a team producing the best barista coffee for staff and visitors
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Ensure that all retail items are stocked and rotated regularly
• Set up of location in the mornings for daily operation
• Manage payments and any cash handling.
• Daily stock takes of products available
• Excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Barista experience essential
• Personable, good sense of humour, fun.

Qualifications / Competencies

Knowledge / competencies: Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English. Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills. Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

About the Company

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role. An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared. Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.

Benefits

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.