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RSPB • Saltholme

Part-Time Food and Beverage Assistant Manager

Employment type:  Part time
Salary:  £23,489 – £25,216 per annum

3–4 days/week at home

Fully flexible hours

Dog friendly

Job Description

Our busy catering operation at Saltholme reserve is looking for a Food & Beverage Assistant Manager to join the team. We are looking for an individual who is able to deliver the highest standards and customer care and assist with the day-to-day running of the cafe operation, in line with set RSPB procedures and routines.

The staff in the Saltholme cafe pride themselves in providing excellent food and excellent customer service. We are looking for someone to cover the role of Assistant Food & Beverage Manager.

The purpose of this role is to help lead the integration and delivery of all catering elements, creating an exemplar customer experience, with the aim to maximise the income and profit of the RSPB cafe and catering offer.

Key work areas:

• Responsible for cooking, kitchen preparation, cleaning
• Ensuring the cafe is delivering the highest standard of customer care.
• Ensure the cafe is commercially merchandised according to the agreed layout and stock levels are appropriate.
• To be responsible for the efficient day to day running of the cafe.
• To deputise for the Food & Beverage Manager during their absence.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Experience of making a variety of fresh food
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• A team player who can influence, motivate and inspire people at all levels..
• Ability to manage and respond to customer needs and feedback.
• Well-developed food presentation skills.

This is a permanent position of 28 hours per week with the possibility of increasing weekly hours to cover busy times and staff shortages.

We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from 19th April. For further information please contact dawn.lodge@rspb.org.uk

As part of this application process you will be asked to complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above.

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Before applying for this role, we recommend reading through the candidate guidance notes attached to the top of this advert.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced sick pay

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options RSPB provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure RSPB is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at RSPB

Company employees

2400

Gender diversity (male:female)

41:59

Office locations

Across all 4 UK Countries

Hiring Countries

Liberia
United Kingdom
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