Head Barista

🌱 Be Part of Something New

Head Barista – Greenmeadow Community Farm

📍 Location: Greenforge Way, Cwmbran, Torfaen, NP44 5AJ

💷 Salary: £13 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 Baristas 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:

• £13 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

Key Responsibilities – Barista

As a Barista, you’ll play a key role in launching and delivering a warm, welcoming experience at one of the region’s most exciting new destinations. Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and serving high-quality coffee and beverages at the Barista Coffee Bar, ensuring consistency and attention to detail in every cup
• Owning the seasonal and monthly coffee specials – You’ll take the lead on developing exciting, on-trend drink specials that reflect the seasons, local ingredients, and visitor preferences. From cosy autumn spiced lattes to refreshing summer coolers, you’ll bring creativity and flair to the menu.
• Creating a friendly and engaging customer experience, offering excellent service with a smile
• Maintaining cleanliness and organisation of the coffee bar area, including equipment, counters, and seating spaces
• Supporting wider catering operations across the Café Restaurant, Playbarn Café, and events as needed
• Following food safety and hygiene standards, including allergen awareness and daily cleaning routines
• Assisting with stock rotation and restocking, ensuring supplies are well managed and waste is minimised
• Working collaboratively with the front-of-house and kitchen teams to ensure smooth service during busy periods and special events
• Contributing to seasonal drink ideas and promotions, helping to keep the offer fresh, fun, and engaging for visitors

✅ 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, with the ability to take ownership of drink concepts, stock ordering, and promotional materials
• 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

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.