Café Assistant (Part Time)

Café Assistant Job Description

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 café assistants to join our exceptional team.

The detail...

The 'Banana Cafe', Pizza Van and Ice Cream Van are thriving hubs of activity at our very busy attraction, and our staff create 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.

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

You will need to be available to work weekends, school holidays and bank holidays.

What are the benefits of working at Monkey Forest?

• All training 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 the start of November 2026. You will need to be available to work weekends, school holidays and bank holidays.

Job Type: Part-time

Benefits:

• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Ability to commute:

• Stoke-on-Trent ST4: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application deadline: 03/07/2026