Shift Leader – Furzey Gardens
Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Hourly rate: £12.55 per hour
Shifts available Monday to Sunday
Weekend availability required
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Shift Leader to deliver excellent customer service, support our team, and help provide training opportunities for people with learning disabilities.
What you’ll do
- Lead daily tearoom operations and ensure a warm, welcoming customer experience
- Support and guide staff, volunteers, and trainees
- Maintain high standards of food quality, presentation, and hygiene
- Handle cashing-up and basic financial procedures
- Keep the tearoom clean, safe, and well‑stocked
- Occasionally support our other venues (Hanger Farm Arts Café, Minstead Lodge)
What you’ll bring:
- Experience in catering or food retail
- Confident leadership and great customer service skills
- Ability to stay calm and organised during busy periods
- Basic admin/financial understanding
- Willingness to learn how to support people with learning disabilities
- A positive attitude and alignment with our charity’s values
Why join us?
Every shift helps create meaningful opportunities for vulnerable people. If you love hospitality and want your work to have real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
What benefits can we offer you?
- 33 Days’ Holiday (Pro Rata), inclusive of Bank Holidays
- Refer-a-Friend scheme worth £750!
- £250 welcome bonus for those with a adult social care DBS on the update service (paid after successful probation completion)
- A Celebration Day’s Leave for Your Birthday
- Death in Service Insurance
- Company Pension
- An easy access health and wellbeing Scheme
- Cycle to Work
- Blue Light Card Eligibility
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
- Company Sick Pay
If you would like to apply for this role please fill out the Online Application Form
We are not licensed to sponsor employees for visas; therefore, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. You need to have, or be able to obtain, right to work in the UK in order to take up this position.
All staff working for, or on behalf of Minstead Trust, understand their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults at risk and know who to escalate concerns to within Minstead Trust.
Due to the nature of this employment sector your application is subject to a successful Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
No terminology in the advert you have seen is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we will gladly accept applications from all sections of the community.
We are only able to accept direct applications at this time; no agencies please.