Barista Assistant (Butterfield Café)
Salary £26,824.60 per annum for 37.5 hours per week
An excellent opportunity to join a prestigious organisation in a varied and rewarding café role within a friendly team. You’ll prepare and serve high-quality drinks, including barista coffees, alongside fresh food, while delivering excellent customer service. The role also involves promoting seasonal specials, maintaining attractive displays, and handling transactions efficiently in a professional, welcoming environment.
Please see the job description attached above for more details.
To be considered for this interesting role, you will need to bring:
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Experience in a customer-facing role, ideally within a busy café or coffee shop
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Experience of barista duties and creating specialty drinks
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Sound knowledge of current Food Safety and relevant Health & Safety regulations
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The ability to operate espresso machines and other beverage equipment
The ideal candidate will have strong customer service and communication skills, be a team player, able to support others and cover roles during absence and be trustworthy and friendly.
About Downing College
Founded in 1800, Downing College in the University of Cambridge has a unique and magnificent setting among twenty acres of lawns and trees, yet is located in the centre of Cambridge. The open landscape has a superb collection of neo-classical buildings from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Those living and working in Downing enjoy a beautiful environment unique in Cambridge in its spaciousness.
Downing also has a thriving conference business and provides customers with a choice of superior conference, meeting and theatre facilities.
Details of the role
The post of Barista Assistant (Butterfield Café) is a permanent full-time role. Applications are invited from suitably experienced candidates.
The annual salary is £26,824.60 per annum for 37.5 hours per week (step 29 on the College Salary Scale).
In addition to the salary, we offer an attractive benefits package. A list of benefits can be found in the advert attachment above.(Please note that these benefits are non-contractual and may be amended or withdrawn at our discretion.)
The breakdown of hours for this role can be found in the advert attachment above.
Application Process
To apply for this position click “Apply Now” on the advert posting on our website (Staff vacancies | Downing College Cambridge) and complete an application form. You are able to upload your CV in support of your application.
Closing date: Midday on Tuesday 14 July 2026. Please note that the closing date for this post may be brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.
Applications are welcomed from a broad range of backgrounds.
All applicants will be contacted once shortlisting has taken place. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK.
Applicants who declare a disability will be offered an interview if they meet the minimum criteria for the job.
We are pleased to be able offer this document in an accessible format, please contact HR ([email protected]) if you wish to receive this advert and role profile or an application form in a different, accessible format, e.g. large print.
For further information or in event of queries, please contact the HR Office:
Tel: 01223 334820
Downing College, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ
