Café Assistant (Part Time)

Job Description

To apply: Please use our online application forms located on our vacancies page.www.monkey-forest.com/vacancies

How would you like to work on the historic Trentham Estate in the only place in the UK you can walk amongst free-roaming Barbary macaque monkeys?

We are looking for confident, friendly, customer-focused cafe assistants to join our exceptional team.

The detail...

The 'Banana Cafe' is a thriving hub of activity at our very busy attraction, and our staff creates a fun, enthusiastic, friendly, but hard-working environment.

Daily duties include food prep, re-stocking, cooking and serving hot food (all training provided), operating tills, general cleaning of the cafe, serving ice cream and pizza from our catering outlets.

Working on a rota basis, you will work roughly 30 hours/week during school holidays and 8 - 14 hours during weekends in term-times.

Experience is preferred but not essential.

So, if you're friendly, hard-working, and a brilliant team player, we would love to hear from you.

What are the benefits of working at Monkey Forest?

• All training is given on-site
• Work on a beautiful Estate in a fun leisure environment
• Free entry to the park whilst part of the team
• 2 free tickets each month to share with family and friends
• Big staff discount on all cafe food and drink
• Shop discount
• All uniform provided

All positions are seasonal, up until the start of November 2026. You will need to be available to work weekends, school holidays and bank holidays.

Pay range: from £9.50 to £12.80 per hour.

End date: April 2026