Café Assistant - Casual - Chard Leisure Centre

Freedom Leisure; Chard Town; Presencial; GBP 14.000 - 21.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Discounted Staff Membership (including

Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7

Financial advice

Flexible working hours

My Staff Shop employee benefits scheme

Paid annual leave

Potential permanent work opportunities

Various insurance and savings schemes

Descripción de la vacante

Freedom Leisure is hiring a Café Assistant to join our friendly team. You will provide an efficient catering service, serve drinks and food, and ensure high standards of hygiene across our café and centres.

We welcome candidates from similar roles and will provide training. You will work with a genuine team and have opportunities for flexible hours, benefits, and future permanent roles where available.

Formación

• Experience of working in a customer facing environment.
• A genuine team player with flexibility, enthusiasm and motivation.
• Willingness to learn and provide excellent customer service at all times, while maintaining hygiene standards.

Responsabilidades

• To provide an efficient catering service, prepare food as required, provide excellent customer service at all times and maintain a hygienic catering area.
• To operate catering equipment effectively and safely, ensuring high standards of hygiene throughout all catering outlets and the centre.
• To provide an excellent level of customer service at all times. To deal with any customer contact/complaints/comments professionally and courteously

Descripción del empleo

Join the Energy at Freedom Leisure – Do Good Feel Good!

At Freedom Leisure, we’re all about positive vibes, great people, and makinga real impact. Yes, we run leisure and cultural facilities, gyms, and swimming pools—but at the heart of it all, it’s our people who make the difference.

As one of the UK’s leading charitable leisure trusts, we’re proud of our mission of Improving Lives Through Leisure. We’re here to help communities live healthier, happier lives by making our centres welcoming, inclusive, and accessible to everyone - because everyone deserves to feel good. We’re all about delivering amazing customer service with a smile—every single day. We create spaces where people feel at home, supported, and inspired.

If you’re passionate about helping others and love creating great experiences, you’ll feel right at home with us. You don’t need to be an expert to get started - we’ll give you all the training and support you need. With over 130 centres across England and Wales, there’s loads of room to grow. Many of our team have built amazing careers doing what they love, helping customers day-to-day and making people feel good.

We’re proud to be a workplace where everyone is welcome, valued, and supported to thrive—because when our team reflects the communities we serve, we all grow stronger together.

We are looking for a Café Assistant to join our friendly and professional team. You will provide an efficient catering service, serving drinks, preparing and serving food and snacks in our café. You will be delivering excellent customer service at all times. Ideally coming from a similar role, you will be a genuine team player, able to work off your own initiative and be enthusiastic and motivated. If you are looking for a varied and interesting role, then we want to hear from you.

Hours: Casual hours, as and when required.

• To provide an efficient catering service, prepare food as required, provide excellent customer service at all times and maintain a hygienic catering area.
• To operate catering equipment effectively and safely, ensuring high standards of hygiene throughout all catering outlets and the centre.
• To provide an excellent level of customer service at all times. To deal with any customer contact/complaints/comments professionally and courteously
• Experience of working in a customer facing environment
• A genuine team player and have a high level of responsibility, flexibility, enthusiasm and motivation.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind, so what can we offer you?

• Discounted Staff Membership (including family members)
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 confidential, independent and professional counselling
• Financial advice
• Flexible working hours
• My Staff Shop employee benefits scheme, offering discounts on cinema tickets, travel, high street e-vouchers, gift cards, days out, leisure activities and everyday spending
• Paid annual leave
• Potential permanent work opportunities
• Various insurance and savings schemes

Closing date: 13th November 2026

Salary: up to £12.71 per hour

At Freedom Leisure, we believe a diverse workforce strengthens our organisation and enhances the services we provide. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.