Barista
Stokes Coffee and Tea are now searching for enthusiastic, driven and skilled Baristas, who want to deliver good coffee, done right, and understand the joy and importance of coffee and customer service. You will be based at our Lawn Café.
Who We Are
Stokes Coffee and Tea has over 120 years of passion and know-how in sourcing, roasting and blending its coffee and tea, supplying businesses locally and across the UK with exceptional quality. We operate three destination cafés across Lincolnshire. Each café offers a unique ambience, fresh, quality produce and of course the best coffee, which we roast on site, at The Lawn Café. Alongside this, our sister companies, The Blue Room and Charlotte House Hotel, offer beautiful event spaces to suit every visitor and occasion. Via our wholesale team, we also offer a comprehensive technical support package, as well as our coffee, to other cafes, so there are plenty of career opportunities to explore.
At Stokes we are passionate about our people, customers and communities and are constantly evolving to meet the challenges of a changing world, ethically, sustainably and responsibly. We have recently become a BCorp Certified business. This is a global marker, verifying we meet rigorous standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. We want to partner and grow with our team members by offering a supportive work environment that provides better work-life balance, a learning culture to enhance skills, share knowledge and develop your career, as well as offer fair reward. Our management and barista pathways are open to all team members who consistently demonstrate Stokes’s behaviours and values.
We hope you'll join us on the next exciting chapter in our journey and become part of the family.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Stokes barista you will make good coffee, the right way, and will develop and share your expertise with the team and our guests, so a minimum of one year experience as a barista is essential. To take your skills to the next level, you will be provided with training, including training at our prestigious Barista Academy. Front of House experience will be a bonus, though all team members are cross-trained to enable you to support your team, when needed, to deliver our friendly, but efficient Stokes service.
All of our cafes open 7 days a week, with weekend working is essential.
What We Are Looking For
Confident, enthusiastic and customer-focused individuals who love the art and science of coffee and want to learn more. You understand the importance of precision and care in delivering delicious coffee to each and every customer.
If you an experienced, passionate barista, who wants to work for an ambitious, community-minded organisation that genuinely offers support, excellent training and work-life balance, then this is the organisation and role for you.
- Minimum of 1 year barista experience
- Confident, approachable team player
- Outstanding customer service skills and experience
- Common-sense and ability to prioritise
- Ability to work calmly and systematically in a fast-paced environment
- Flexibility required across the week with regular weekend working and some limited evening shifts
- To apply you must be 18+ and able to work in the UK
What we offer
- Daytime café hours: between 8:00am–5:00pm,
- Events opportunites (if additional hours wanted)
- Training and development: including Barista and Management pathways
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Discounted food and drinks
- Employee high-street local and national discounts
- Supportive team environment
- Staff socials
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- In-store discount
- Bereavement Leave
- Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year's Day & Easter Sunday Off
How to apply
Please send an up-to-date and relevant CV, along with a statement setting out why you would be amazing in this role. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you can send 1 minute video to [email protected].
Successful candidates will be contacted to attend an interview.
As we are fortunate to have positive responses to our campaigns, we are not able to feedback to every candidate. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks, your application has unfortunately not been progressed.
Stokes values a diverse and inclusive workforce and resolutely believes that this can bring fresh ideas, thinking and approaches to the way we work and better serve our customers, partners and employees. We welcome everyone from everywhere to come and join our team. Please let us know if we can support you in any specific ways to apply to join us.
Pay: Up to £12.71 per hour
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free fitness classes
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- Are there any days in the week, including weekends, that you cannot work?
- What do you love about being a barista?
- How many hours do you, ideally, want to work?
- Please confirm what your notice period is and any annual leave commitments.
Work Location: In person
