Café Assistant

eTeach UK Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist educational institution is seeking a Café Assistant to join their team. The permanent term-time role involves greeting customers, operating tills, and supporting students with special educational needs. The ideal candidate should have catering experience, strong resilience, and the ability to foster positive relationships within a school environment. The role offers a salary from £27,008 to £29,700 pro rata, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in food handling and working in a catering environment.
• Experience in a customer-facing role.
• Ability to support challenging students with resilience.

Responsibilities

• Greet and serve customers in the café.
• Support school children gaining work experience.
• Provide ad-hoc support in lessons.

Skills

Experience of food handling

Customer service experience

Mental and physical resilience

Good English skills

Knowledge of behaviour management

Ability to work with children with SEN

Ability to manage groups of children

Promoting positive behaviour

Job description

Café Assistant with LSA duties

The role is a Permanent, Term-Time only role

Monday to Friday (08:30am – 17:00pm)

Salary from: £27,008 - £29,700 pro rata, depending on experience (£23,150 - £25,457 salary for term-time, 36 weeks pa)

To Start: January 2026

We are seeking a calm, supportive and adaptable individual to join us at our Blossom House School as a Café Assistant and LSA.

Blossom and Brew Café works closely with Blossom House School. Blossom House is an Ofsted-rated “Outstanding” specialist school for children aged 3 - 19 years of age with speech, language and communication difficulties. Although many of the children have some associated difficulties such as fine motor problems or poor organisational skills, they are all within the average range of cognitive abilities.

What the role involves:

The Café Assistant role will involve greeting and serving customers, operating the till and handling cash, replenishing stock, providing excellent customer service and to assist in food preparation, and opening and closing the Café as required. While working at the Café you will be expected to also support school children gaining work experience in the Café. The Learning Support Assistant role may involve providing ad-hoc or dedicated 1-1 support to specific children and providing whole-class support in lessons. You’ll also help maintain the learning environments, assist with administration and provide ad-hoc management or support with challenging behaviour.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of food handling and working within a catering environment.
• Experience of working with customers in a customer facing environment
• Supporting our students can sometimes be challenging, mental and physical resilience are qualities necessary for all our staff.
• Supporting our students can sometimes be challenging, mental and physical resilience are qualities necessary for all our staff.
• Confidence, enthusiasm and a passion for learning.
• Good English (clear written and spoken English) and numeracy skills.
• Knowledge and experience of behaviour management.
• The ability to build good working relationships with children, teachers, parents and carers.
• Experience of working with children with Special Education Needs (SEN), particularly children on the Autism Spectrum.
• The ability to manage a small group of children with complex social communication needs.
• The ability to promote positive behaviour in a nurturing environment is essential.

Closing date: Friday 12th December 2025