Casual Barista for a Social Enterprise Cafe

STREAT is not just a collection of hospitality businesses; more importantly, we’re a collection of talented individuals with a shared passion for helping others. Now we’re looking for someone new to join our team. We roast, we bake, we train, we make. We’re baristas, mentors, and social change-makers. At STREAT, you'll have the opportunity to pass your skills on to young people who have experienced difficulties entering the workforce. You'll be working with a range of friendly and passionate people who take pride in their work and have fun doing it.

We currently have approx 15-20 hours (2-4 shifts) available per week, Monday to Friday, across 11 cafes in the CBD, Collingwood, and Richmond. We especially need someone who can work on Fridays.

Does the following sound like you?

• Focused on delivering the absolute best customer experience
• Confident and comfortable in high volume venues
• Warm, fun, friendly, engaging, professional
• Interested in sharing your industry experience in customer service and speciality coffee with our trainees in a supportive environment
• Respectful of diversity with an inclusive attitude, in line with STREAT’s values
• Embraces the opportunity to proudly represent the best of yourself and our brand
• Appreciates long lists of dot points

What’s the role look like?

• Being surrounded by amazing people and able to showcase your hospitality industry skills in a high volume café environment
• Leading by example, you’ll help manage a consistent, efficient, and customer-focused venue
• You’ll identify your team members’ strengths and encourage them to be brilliant
• You’ll be a champion of hospitality and act as a constant role model for the young people in our training programs.
• Social and cultural issues training available
• Engaged coworkers and supervisors who aspire to cultivate a positive work environment

• Assist with the day-to-day operational activities of a quick-service takeaway coffee venue - including taking orders, making coffee, serving, cleaning
• Basic food preparation (toasties)
• Some table service
• Passing your skills onto our trainees

Experience preferred

• Minimum of 1 year speciality coffee experience
• Able to consistently brew coffee to recipe and serve well-presented coffees throughout the day
• Have worked as an all-rounder or similar in an a la carte dining cafe - not just behind a bar/coffee machine
• Ability to remember faces and names and to make strangers smile early in the morning
• Before starting, a Working With Children Check, and an Australian Police Check will be required (a part of the on-boarding process, which will be

Please understand that only suitable candidates will be contacted. If this doesn’t end up being you, then best of luck finding your next challenge!