Cafe Assistant

Location: Broadmeadows
- Brand: Community, Residential & Pathways
- Date Posted: 16 May 2025

**Location: Broadmeadows, Victoria**
**Employment Status: Full-Time, Ongoing, Monday to Friday, 6am-2pm**
**Pay Range: $25 p/h + 11.5% Super**
**Salary Packaging: Not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per annum, plus further benefits for meals and entertainment up to $2,649 annually.**

**Hey You**

Are you a person who thrives in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment?

Do you take pride in delivering high-quality service and supporting a team to run smoothly?

We're looking for a Café Assistant who is passionate about food and beverages and driven to create exceptional experiences for our customers. In this role, you'll play a key part in ensuring the café operates efficiently and that both staff and site are working in harmony to provide top-notch service.

If you enjoy being part of a dynamic team and making someone's day through great food and friendly service, we’d love to hear from you

Key Responsibilities:

- Offer guidance to supported employees enabling them to be productive members of the team
- Provide a warm and welcoming environment with outstanding customer service to all internal and external stakeholders
- Perform a range of duties including coffee/tea making, waiting tables, clearing tables, washing dishes, serving customers, operating cash register, EFTPOS machine and cash handling
- Ability to work autonomously with integrity and efficiency
- Ensure that the team is familiar with the current menus and the kitchen team
- requirements during the daily service
- Assist the cafe to meet all food safety guidelines, cleanliness and expectations
- Assist the site in ensuring that products and services are delivered in accordance with customer requests/needs

**About You**

You're not just someone who gets the job done - you love working with people of all abilities and fostering a supportive, inclusive workplace. Your excellent communication skills and attention to detail ensure that every task is handled professionally.

Essential Requirements:

- Food preparation as well as café making skills
- Knowledge of safe food practices including safe food handling
- Ability to follow instructions
- Efficient worker who can work well in a busy environment
- Ability to communicate with people across a broad range of
- backgrounds and abilities in a friendly and approachable manner
- Good time management and organisational skills
- You may be required to work at different sites as the business requires
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check or willingness to obtain
- Completion of the NDIS Worker Orientation Module or willingness to complete

Desirable:

- Food Handling Certificate
- Back of house experienced preferred (not essential)
- Current First aid
- Previous event management experience, including functions and catering

**For you**

Here at genU we're a group of passionate, driven people who want everyone's lives to be happier and healthier, especially people with disabilities, the ageing and those experiencing disadvantage. We operate solely for community benefit and invest back into the same communities in which our services are delivered.

genU welcomes diversity, including diversity of race, culture, spirituality, gender, age, identity, ability, and sexuality. We are committed to providing a welcoming, innovative, safe, empowering and respectful environment for all and living these values each and every day.

genU staff have access to a range of benefits, including but not limited to the following:

- Investment in You: in addition to a comprehensive induction program & ongoing professional development, genU is committed to providing opportunities for career progression. You will have access to a range of accredited training modules, staff mentoring programs and our internal jobs board.
- Commitment to Staff Health & Wellbeing: 24/7 access to an innovative, holistic employee assistance program that supports your emotional, mental, financial, and physical health.
- Increase your Take Home Pay: Salary package up to $15,900 per annum each FBT year plus further meals and entertainment benefits.
- Employee Discount Program: Save money with employee discounts and savings at over 450 of Australia's most loved retailers and service providers including Coles, Woolworths & JB HI-FI.
- Study Scholarship: all genU employees are eligible for a 25% scholarship towards undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Torrens University.