Café Shift Leader

The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 11,000 - GBP 14,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional wildlife organization located in Oxford is seeking a Café Shift Leader to manage operations and enhance guest experiences at their busy café. The role involves supervising café activities, preparing food, and ensuring compliance with food safety standards. Candidates should possess relevant hospitality experience, food preparation skills, and a calm demeanor when interacting with the public and colleagues. This part-time position offers flexible hours and various benefits, including generous annual leave and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working hours

Salary exchange pension

Wellbeing initiatives

Membership to staff network groups

Qualifications

• Experience in a café or customer-focused hospitality environment.
• Ability to prepare a basic menu and bake.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent guest experience in the café.
• Supervise daily operations and maximize income.
• Conduct food safety and hygiene checks.

Skills

Café or similar customer focused hospitality environment skills

Baking, cooking, or other food preparation skills

Food Hygiene Level 2 qualification

A calm and welcoming approach

Ability to coordinate a team

Education

Food Hygiene Level 2 qualification

Job description

Closing date: Wednesday 18 February 2026

Café Shift Leader

Salary: £13,760 (pro rata) per annum (£24,697 FTE), £13.57 per hour
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Part time (19.5 hours per week, according to rota. Alternate weekend working and occasional bank holidays and evenings.)
Location: College Lake Nature Reserve, Upper Icknield Way, Bulbourne, Tring, Buckinghamshire, HP23 5QG

The Café Shift Leader will help nature recover by delivering an excellent guest experience at our busy café located in College Lake nature reserve, Tring, Bucks.

The Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust has a vision for “more nature everywhere, for everyone”. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. This includes you being comfortable bringing your whole self to work, and us co‑working with the diverse communities we serve to ensure we are meeting everyone’s needs.

What you’ll be doing

• Food and drink preparation, including cooking a basic menu and baking.
• Supervise the daily operation of our busy café to deliver a positive guest experience and maximise income opportunities.
• Carry out the daily opening and closing procedures for the café including food safety and hygiene checks.
• Assist the Café Supervisor with ordering of stock and developing a vibrant seasonal menu for the café and events hosted at the reserve.

What we’re looking for

• Café or similar customer focused hospitality environment skills.
• Baking, cooking, or other food preparation skills.
• Food Hygiene Level 2 qualification with ability to attain Food Hygiene Level 3.
• A calm and welcoming approach in dealing with the public and colleagues.
• Ability to coordinate a team and resources to adapt to changing demands in the café.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement with paid birthday leave, balance days, urgent personal business leave and generous occupational sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and family‑friendly policies.
• Flexible working to achieve work‑life balance.
• Salary exchange pension with generous employer contribution.
• Wellbeing initiatives including qualified Mental Health First Aiders, YuLife benefit package – access to immediate and confidential help for any work, health, or life matters; 3x life assurance, online GP access, discounts and trade YuCoin points for gift cards.
• Salary sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electric Vehicle scheme.
• Membership to BBOWT’s Staff Network Groups for social interaction, peer support, mentoring and personal development.
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This role is accepting applications on a rolling basis and the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy once a suitable applicant is found.

Interviews will take place face to face at College Lake on a rolling basis.

BBOWT values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We want every candidate to have the best chance of success as part of this process. In order to do this, we know that some candidates will need reasonable adjustments. Contact us on [e-mail] if there are any reasonable adjustments we can provide during the recruitment process, including completing your application.

When applying for the role you can expect to answer a few questions online relating to the skills required and what you would be doing in the role. Your responses will be anonymised, randomised, and scored by a panel of reviewers.

All candidates will receive feedback on their application.

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, The Lodge, 1 Armstrong Road, Littlemore, Oxford Oxon OX4 4XT