COMMUNITY CAFE MANAGER JOB OPPORTUNITY

 

With our current cafe manager moving on, there is an opportunity for someone to come in and take this fantastic new community cafe forward with energy and growth.

 

Job Title: Community Cafe Manager

Location: Washington, Tyne & Wear

Salary: Up to £28,860 DOE

Role : Permanent, Full Time

 

Summary of position 

 

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The Table is a new, charitable Community Café that launched in October of 2024. Our aim is to show God’s love to the local community through providing a community hub serving a high quality, healthy, ethically-sourced and affordable menu, and providing an inclusive safe place for all.

 

This is an opportunity for you to develop the role of cafe manager within a purpose-built café, bringing to our church your hospitality experience and love for community.

 

About us

 

St George’s, Fatfield is sited in the 1960s new town of Washington in North East England.  As part of the City of Sunderland, we hope to inspire healthy eating and community in one of the least healthy places to live in England.

 

We were given a vision 8 years ago to build an annexe containing a café, which would be used to reach out to and serve the community.  God has blessed our steps of faith and provided funding for a new building with purpose built café and community space that was completed in September.  We are now very excited to increase our welcome to the community using this new building.

 

About you

 

You will be a person who loves people and loves hospitality.  This is an opportunity to come in and manage our café ministry, alongside the church leadership team, according to your unique skills and experience, developing and growing a team of volunteers from within and outside the church community, and expanding our offer to the people of Washington over time.

 

Essential Skills

  • A generous-hearted, patient and hard-working person with interest in, and concern for, community action with a Christian ethos.
  • Experience in catering, cooking food from scratch and food hygiene, including having, or being willing to attain, appropriate qualifications, and deliver a high quality menu.
  • Experience of managing and motivating people
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and with the ability to communicate with a diverse array of people.
  • Competence in maths and IT skills.
  • Self-starter, enthusiastic and motivated.
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage time effectively, with strong planning and organisational skills.
  • Willingness to listen, learn, develop and change and recognise your own weaknesses.
  • Happy to support the values, mission, vision and ethos of St George’s Church, Fatfield.

Key Information

  • Deadline for all applications is January 6th 2025 at Midnight.
  • Interviews will take place on January 14th and 15th 2025
  • We are aiming for the role to commence as soon as possible afterwards, but start dates can be discussed at interview.
  • If you require any further information please contact office@stgeorgesfatfield.co.uk
  • The salary is dependent on skills and experience at £24,500 – £28,860 per annum
  • The role is full time, with working hours during the day time, 5 days a week with very occasional evenings. Exact days and hours can be discussed at interview.
  • The role is permanent subject to a satisfactory three month probationary period.
  • 6 weeks holiday annually, some of which to be taken when the café is closed after Christmas.
  • A DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Enhanced Plus Disclosure Certificate will be required for the post, but a clean DBS is not essential for the role. We will consider applicants according to our Recruitment and Employment of ex-offenders policy

Apply for the job and read the full person specification and job description by downloading the application form and documents from our website.

Find out more: https://www.stgeorgesfatfield.co.uk/cafe_manager_job

 

We welcome and encourage you to contact us with questions to help in the discernment process. Please read through our vision and ethos documents downloadable on our website. If you wish a copy of any policies in advance, we are happy to supply them.

 

If you believe this is the job for you then we would like to hear from you!

 

Application Process

 

If you are interested in applying please send the following:

  • A completed application form describing your experiences, how you would fit with the role advertised and how you meet the person specifications in the documents on this page.
  • An up to date CV (2 pages maximum)
  • Contact details for 2 relevant referees.

To: office@stgeorgesfatfield.co.uk or by post to St George’s Church, Fatfield, Vigo Lane, Harraton, Washington, NE38 9AH with an email subject of “Your Name + Café Manager”

 

We welcome and encourage you to contact us with questions to help in the discernment process. Please read through our vision and ethos documents downloadable below. If you wish a copy of any policies in advance, we are happy to supply them.

 

For a full person specification and job description download this document

 

Dowload our ethos, vision and mission

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We hope you are excited by this new opportunity part funded by the UKSPF.

 

*The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit UK Shared Prosperity Fund: prospectus - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)