Description

We are looking for a friendly person to volunteer in our busy community café called The Meeting Place. As a volunteer your duty is to provide a warm welcome to all visitors. You will assist with taking food orders, ensuring visitors feel welcome, engaging with customers, assisting the kitchen team with clearing tables, keeping kitchen area clean, making tea and coffee and serving food.

Welcoming and friendly manner, commitment to ensuring cleaning and hygiene measures are always maintained, work well within a team and willingness to help colleagues reliable and willingness to learn.

Organisation aims and objectives

(1) To provide relief for persons suffering from mental or physical disability, illness or impairment and in particular those who have sensory impairment or limited mobility, and with particular reference to those who are resident in East Kilbride and environs (the Operating Area) (2) To advance education on all aspects of disability, and in particular disability involving sensory impairment or limited mobility (3) To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, in fields connected with disability.

Availability

Hour café is open between 10am to 4pm. We are looking for people to come in from 11am-1pm or 1pm - 4pm or we can work around your availability.

Frequency and commitment details

Hour café is open between 10am to 4pm. We are looking for people to come in from 11am-1pm or 1pm - 4pm or we can work around your availability. This applies to expense payment frequency

Restrictions

No Gender Restriction, N/A
Experience required: No Expertise, Caring,Good Communicator,Good Listener,Hard Working,Open minded,Team Player,Trustworthy,
Travel details: The opportunity takes at multiple location across South Lanarkshire East Kilbride
Minimum age: 16

Support

Expenses details: There should be no need to claim expenses for this volunteer role.
Taster available: Yes
Training details: Volunteers will go through a 4 week induction period where they will receive one to one training and a volunteer pack with lots of useful information including role description and the relevant policies and procedures. After the end of the 4 weeks we have an informal chat about the volunteers progress and how they feel about volunteering with us. After the chat the volunteer will continue to be supported throughout their time with us.
Support: Named Contact For Volunteer