MY Cafe Senior Organiser

Job summary

MY Cafe Senior Organiser Dewsbury Hospital

Dewsbury Hospital is home to the MY Cafe, a volunteer-run cafe at the heart of our busy hospital. The MY Cafe team operates two cafes across the hospital site, and this role will cover both locations.

The MY Cafe provides hot drinks, snacks, and refreshments to patients, visitors, and staff. We are a small staff team supported by over 30 dedicated volunteers. The cafe is a welcoming, inclusive space where volunteers gain valuable experience and work closely together.

Role Overview:As the MY Cafe Senior Organiser, you will join the Cafe Staff Team and take on an essential leadership role in supporting and coordinating volunteers. The MY Cafe is part of the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust's Voluntary Services Team, which recruits and supports over 300 volunteers who contribute their time to patient care across the Trust's hospitals.

What Were Looking For:This role is ideal for individuals with experience in retail or catering who enjoy working with volunteers and thrive in a leadership role. If you're looking to be part of a busy and dynamic team and make a positive impact in a healthcare setting, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Main Tasks:

• Organise and coordinate 30 volunteers to run the MY Cafe, overseeing rotas, demonstrating tasks, providing support, and ensuring food safety standards are being followed.
• Be responsible for cashing up and banking daily takings.
• Provide excellent customer service to MY Cafe customers, resolving queries and concerns.
• Order stock and ensure stock levels are always adequate.
• Carry out administrative duties that support departmental targets and ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.

Job responsibilities

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.