Job Title: Venue Team Member - Cafe

Reporting to: Venue Manager and Assistant Venue Manager(s)

Place of Work: A York University Students’ Union Venue (On UOY campus)

Contract: Fixed Term 5th May 2025 - 6th June 2025

Position vacant date: 5th May 2025 for the start of the induction process 

Hours of Work:  Flexible 0 hours contract

Applicants must be able to work days, evenings and weekends.

Salary: £12.60 per hour

Closing Date: Monday 10th March 2025 at 9am

Here at The University of York Students Union, we have multiple exciting job opportunities to join our Venue teams as Venue Team Members working within the Kitchen @ Alcuin Cafe. 

About the Role:

Build up your skills as a barista in our quaint little venue, the Kitchen @ Alcuin!
Located within Alcuin college, The Kitchen is a fast paced cafe, offering a selection of specialty coffees, sweet treats & Boujie Bagels.
We're looking for team players who are interested in leveling up their hospitality skills, learning the ins and outs of coffee, and how to make our new range of mouth-watering bagels!

What are we looking for?

Flexibility - Staffing our venues can at times be difficult as we work our rotas around your academic availability. To keep our working hours flexible to your time, we may require you to help out in other venues, roles or times!

Communicators - Our venues are social hubs for many students & staff across the university, be prepared to chat to your colleagues and engage with our customers to ensure they have a great experience!

Enthusiasm - We think work should be more than a place you come to earn some dosh. We want you to have fun, build friendships and have a positive impact on your team!

Working at York SU:

At York SU we know that maintaining a great work life balance also improves our team's wellbeing, productivity and happiness, this is why we offer a range of contract sizes to fit around your studies and home life.

During your contract you will be able to update your availability at the start of their contract, and then over each holiday period (Christmas and Easter) to make sure work still fits around your lectures and studies.

Other benefits include:

• Staff Discounts within venues
• Free soft drinks on shift
• Access to enhanced student discounts (varies term to term)
• Free entry to official club nights in town
• Free 'plus one' access to on campus club nights
• Discounted or Free tickets to York SU organised events (e.g. Viking Raid and Summer Ball).

We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. Whatever your background, religion, identity, relationship status if you're good at what you do and want to provide the best experience possible for, with and by our students then jump in with your whole self.

York SU is committed to equality of opportunity - we are an organisation who works very hard to ensure we appoint based on merit. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and/or from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud to offer an interview to applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised position.

**It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high number of applications, seasonal and high-peak times, we may have to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

If you are invited to interview with us we will share our interview questions in advance so you can feel a little more prepared. We’re more interested in hearing about your experiences and ideas than in testing your memory, and so we want you to feel as comfortable as possible.

If you have any further questions about the position, or if you have a requirement for adjustments that would make the application or interview process more accessible, please do not hesitate to contact us on [email protected].

Please note that products containing nuts, dairy, gluten and other potential allergies are served within our venues. We however aim to support a nut free environment within our student centre by encouraging staff not to bring nut based products to work.