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Cafe Assistant, Southport

Salary: £12.71 to £12.71 Per Hour Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Part-Time Job Reference Number: AK1718035SouCAS Job Location: Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom

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About This Role

Cafe Assistant, Southport

£12.71 per hour

24 hours per week (You will be required to work on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday each week)

Looking for A Great Little Job?

We are currently recruiting for Café Assistants in the Southport area

Ideally you will be able to provide a service which exceeds our customer’s expectations or you may be competent and confident baking and preparing home cooked food in greater volumes, and you would positively contribute to supporting young autistic people on work placements.

A Great Little Place is a multi-award winning Café in Southport who bake and create delicious food and sumptuous cakes in their own kitchens. We are a Social Enterprise owned by Autism Initiatives, where the team share a passion for supporting adults with Autism in work. If you would like a rewarding job within a committed team, then this could be just what you are looking for.

If you’re an excellent communicator who enjoys providing great customer service we want to hear from you. A Food and Hygiene Certificate would be an advantage, although not essential as we provide training to all our staff,

All positions are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure for successful applicants, costs of which will be met by Autism Initiatives. Café Assistants work on a rota basis which includes some weekends.

The closing date for completed applications is the 6th November 2026

for more information on the cafe, please visit https://autisminitiatives.org/service/great-little-place/

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