Barista

Company Description

🌱 Be Part of Something New

Barista – Greenmeadow Community Farm

📍 Location: Greenforge Way, Cwmbran, Torfaen, NP44 5AJ
💷 Salary: £12.60 per hour + benefits (40 hours)
📅 Opening: August 2025

Greenmeadow Community Farm is preparing to open its gates in August 2025, and we’re looking for friendly, enthusiastic, and skilled Barista to help bring our brand-new Barista Coffee Bar to life.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of something fresh and exciting, serving great coffee and warm hospitality in a vibrant, family-focused setting.

🌟 Benefits Include:

• £12.60 per hour
• 40 hours (5 over 7)
• 28 days holiday per annum
• 3 volunteering days
• 3 days grandparent leave
• 24 weeks enhanced maternity leave
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Pension & life insurance
• Discounts via Perkbox (retail, cinema, travel & more)
• Wellbeing hub & employee assistance programme
• Free meals while at work
• Career development & apprenticeships for all levels

☕ What Makes This Role Exciting?

You’ll be part of a dynamic catering team, helping to deliver a warm, welcoming experience at our:

• Barista Coffee Bar, serving high-quality coffee, teas, and light bites
• Café Restaurant and Playbarn Café, supporting service during busy periods
• Events & Hospitality spaces, including school visits, private functions, and seasonal celebrations

✅ What We’re Looking For:

• Experience working as a Barista in a busy café or hospitality environment
• A passion for great coffee, customer service, and creating memorable guest experiences
• Confidence in using espresso machines and preparing a variety of hot and cold drinks
• A friendly, approachable attitude and a team-player mindset
• Excellent time management and multitasking skills
• Attention to detail and commitment to cleanliness and food safety
• Willingness to work 5 out of 7 days, including weekends and occasional evenings

🌿 Why Join Us?

• Be part of an exciting new chapter from day one
• Work in a beautiful, nature-rich setting with a strong community focus
• Help shape the visitor experience at one of the region’s most anticipated new attractions

Job Description

Key Responsibilities – Barista

As a Barista, you’ll support the smooth running of the Barista Coffee Bar and help deliver a warm, welcoming experience for every visitor. Your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting in the preparation and service of high-quality coffee and beverages, ensuring consistency and attention to detail in every drink
• Supporting the Barista team in delivering seasonal and monthly coffee specials, helping with preparation, presentation, and customer engagement
• Creating a friendly and engaging customer experience, offering excellent service with a positive attitude
• Maintaining cleanliness and organisation of the coffee bar area, including equipment, counters, and seating spaces
• Helping with stock rotation and restocking, ensuring ingredients and supplies are available and well managed
• Following food safety and hygiene standards, including allergen awareness and daily cleaning routines
• Assisting with promotional displays and campaigns, such as setting up signage for specials or themed drinks
• Working collaboratively with the wider catering team, supporting service in the Café Restaurant, Playbarn Café, and events as needed
• Contributing ideas and feedback to help keep the coffee offer fresh, fun, and engaging for visitors

Qualifications

✅ What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience as a Barista in a busy, high-quality café or hospitality environment
• A passion for great coffee, customer service, and creating memorable guest experiences
• Confidence in using espresso machines and preparing a wide range of hot and cold drinks to a consistently high standard
• A creative flair for developing seasonal and monthly specials
• Experience in stock management, including ordering, rotation, and minimising waste
• A proactive approach to creating engaging campaigns, including designing posters and working with the team to promote specials
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and calm under pressure, especially during peak service times
• A team player with excellent communication skills and a positive, solution-focused attitude
• Willingness to work 5 out of 7 days, including weekends and evenings as required

Additional Information

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.