The Bale House Cafe is a small, but very busy destination café located within Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve known for its outstanding views, beauty and rare flora and fauna. The Bale House is the first public straw bale building constructed in Hastings and provides an exciting facility for visitors to the park to find out about this special landscape. Whether for eating, meeting, walking or learning The Bale House is a place for everyone, with things to discover every day.
This post will coordinate, manage and develop the catering outlet at the Visitor Centre to ensure it is providing a comfortable, welcoming and inclusive place for both visitors and corporate/private bookings for events out of café hours. Alongside ensuring food and beverage products served are of high quality, your team will also be representing the nature reserve and all of the partners involved with making it such an important place for nature and community.
You will supervise a small team of catering staff, leading by example, and work proactively alongside colleagues to develop our offer to ensure we provide high quality food and beverages while also providing a high level of attentive service.
We are looking for someone with excellent motivation skills, thrives on inspiring others and develops their strengths. As a leader we want someone who brings out the best in our staff supporting them to provide outstanding customer service. It will be important for the successful candidate to be able to evidence positive critical thinking skills, quickly finding solutions to overcome obstacles to service under pressure.
Location: The Bale House, Hastings Country Park, TN35 4AD.
Contract: Permanent, Annualised (the amount of hours you work each month may vary, however your salary will be paid equally over the year)
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum (DOE) with additional performance based incentives
Hours: 40 hours each week, you will be required to work some weekends and bank holidays
For key requirements of the role please see the personal specification attached to the Job Description on our website: https://www.groundwork.org.uk/jobs/community-cafe-manager/
We are a creative, committed and enthusiastic organisation with a great track record of project development, fundraising and delivery, so there are always opportunities to grow and develop your role within our friendly team.
In return we offer you:
A competitive salary
Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum plus public holidays
Health Cash Plan including PERKS – such as discounted gym membership and shopping discounts
Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work and pension contributions
Family friendly policies to support work/life balance with time off in lieu for out of hours activities
Business travel expenses
Groundwork South works with communities across the south of England to transform their lives and the places where they live. We have been at the forefront of social and environmental regeneration for over 25 years, and today we have a simple mission: to create better places, improve people’s prospects, and promote greener living and working.
We are passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny, and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. This vision drives the work that we do. Each year we deliver over 100 innovative projects, tackling the biggest issues facing our communities and creating real and lasting, positive change.
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Job Description & Person Specification
Please send your completed application form quoting reference ‘BHCM24’ to [email protected]
For further information regarding the post please Michelle Pletsch, Hastings Programme Manager on [email protected]
Closing date for applications: 9th May 2024
Interview date: 14/15th May 2024 (Planned in person at the Bale House)
Please note, we reserve the right to close applications early in the event of a large response.
Groundwork South is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you. If you need any support or adjustments with your application or attendance at interview please let us know.
