Cafe Volunteer

What is the role? This is an outward-facing role that will involve serving customers, chatting to everyone visiting the café, and preparing food in a small coffee shop environment within the main Hospice building. We currently have volunteer vacancies in our café for the following shifts: Tuesday: 9.30am - 12pm and 12pm - 2.30pm Friday: 12pm to 2.30pm What will I be doing? Role tasks:

• Cash handling, using a till to process payments from customers
• Providing a friendly and welcoming service to customers including, staff, visitors, patients and volunteers
• Preparing food to a high quality, and in accordance with FSA standards
• Ensuring the café area is kept clean, tidy and presented attractively
  
  Numerate and confident with handling money
• Good people and team-working skills
• A reasonable degree of physical fitness is required, as this is an active role
• Previous experience of catering and/or customer experience would be welcome, but is not essential
Personal Qualities Required:
• Friendly and welcoming to everyone in the Hospice community
• Sensitivity to the nature of the environment
• Willing to undertake training and comply with Food Standard Agency and Food Safety & Hygiene regulations
• Confident and able to work on own initiative, but also able to take direction when required
  
  We appreciate your time is valuable. Whether you can spare a few hours occasionally, or on a more regular weekly basis, as part of the St Michael's Hospice team you will pay a vital role in supporting your local hospice.
Our volunteers help in many different ways, carrying out a variety of essential roles from supporting patients and their families, to sorting donations to stock our retail shops and raising vital funds to keep the Hospice running. They come from all backgrounds and ages and share a common goal of wanting to give something back to their local community, while learning new skills and making friends along the way. Do you want to make a difference? Why not explore our current volunteering opportunities below, read our volunteer stories and find out why our community members enjoy volunteering with us.