Café Supervisor (TA)

Would you like to make a difference and work for a charity?

Novalis Trust is a charity that supports children and adults with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties and other learning needs.

Cotswold Chine School is a trauma-informed residential school for children aged 7 – 19 and the Lunchbox Café is based on site.

This is an exciting opportunity for a practical hands-on enthusiastic candidate. The successful candidate will have the unusual opportunity to support the running of a local charitable café as the ‘9th classroom’ of Cotswold Chine School.

The school’s Lunch Box Café is designed to teach children through practical work experience to develop social skills, practical food preparation, hygiene and nutrition skills to prepare them for adulthood and employment.

Responsibilities for this role:

• The candidate would join a supportive team of two food technology teachers and dedicated cafe teaching assistants. They will also benefit from a wider team assisting in engaging pupils with work related experience in the café.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for the smooth running of all operational aspects of the café year-round.
• Ensuring consistently good service is provided to customers through good front of house customer service skills.
• Ensuring the food offered is to a consistently high standard.
• Supporting back of house management, through good organisation and ordering stock from local suppliers.
• They will take on the sole responsibility of running the café in the teacher’s absence (primarily school holidays when the café will not be running at full capacity) with the support of the Youth Support and Clinical Therapy teams.
• Role modelling to pupils a good work ethic, communication skills and professionalism.
• Food preparation, Baking and Cooking

Benefits for this role include:

• Excellent training opportunities
• £26,495 – £27,700 per annum dependent on experience
• Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm
• 52-week contract
• 5.6 Weeks Annual leave
• Pension Scheme
• Free onsite parking and free lunch/meals provided
• Entitled to apply for Blue Light discount card
• Health Cash Plan for Employees
• Employee welcome bonus where you could earn an additional £600 in the first year, with payments made between 6 weeks and 1 year (subject to the normal PAYE deductions)

Requirements for this role are:

• The ability to form relationships with children, reliability, resilience, and a flexible approach to working with others are important.
• Experience in special needs education setting is not essential as training will be provided.

Desirable skills include:

• Experience, ability and willingness to cook, bake and prepare food is essential.
• An ability to use IT systems such as word and excel with confidence.

Please contact jobs@novalis-trust.org.uk for an application pack, which includes an application form

Novalis Trust is committed to Safeguarding. If shortlisted, you will receive a self-disclosure form to complete and return to us prior to interview. All applications will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Check for Regulated Activity.