Apprentice Barista
23.5 DEGREES LIMITED
Bradford (BD4 6SX)
Closes in 28 days (Monday 1 September 2025)
Posted on 4 August 2025
Contents
Summary
Take your place at the heart of our community. At Starbucks, where your voice matters and your passion for customer service is brewed into everything we do. If you're welcoming, helpful and friendly with a desire to learn new skills then this could be the perfect role for you. Apply today to start your fantastic career at Starbucks 23.5 Degrees!
- Wage
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£13,728 a year
- Training course
- Food and beverage team member (level 2)
- Hours
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24 hours per week on a rota basis.
Earliest start time
05:30am
Latest finish
22:30pm
24 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Take your place at the heart of our community. At Starbucks 23.5 Degrees, where your voice matters and your passion for customer service is brewed into everything we do. We’ve got an exciting opportunity for you to join us as an apprentice barista at our Bradford - Avenue Retail Park store. If you're welcoming, helpful and friendly with a desire to learn new skills then this could be the perfect role for you. Apply today to start your fantastic career at Starbucks!
Working in a Starbucks store is different from any other job. You’re creating genuine moments of connection with our customers and making a difference to their day, through creating handcraft delicious beverages and building relationships with our customers (getting to know their favourite drink), and with your fellow partners in store.
The best part about this role is that no two days are ever the same! Working in one of our dynamic stores, a typical day could include:
Supporting with store procedures including, opening or closing the store, cash handling, and safety and security.
Supporting your fellow partners during periods of high volume to keep the store operating
Anticipating and delivering on your customer and store needs by getting to know your store environment and customers
Supporting in creating the third-place environment during each shift
Delivering legendary customer service to all customers by acting with a customer comes first attitude and creating genuine connections
Maintaining a clean and organised workspace for your customers and partners
Providing quality beverages, whole bean and food products consistently for all customers in line with our recipe and presentation standards
All our retail store partners begin their careers with us by undertaking an introductory training. programme which are led by our amazing in store trainers and coaches and are designed to immerse you in the Starbucks culture and set you up for success. These training programmes are delivered in our stores and provide partners with the opportunity to learn on the job supported by their manager.
In return, we’ll offer you a competitive starting salary (in line with the national living wage) and benefits that include:
30% discount on Starbucks merchandise and products on and off shift.
Discounts and Cash back are available through our benefits platform - including 100's high street stores.
Free drinks on shift.
Wellness programmes.
Training and development opportunities.
Progression to Shift Manager, Assistant Manager or Store Manager.
Opportunity to earn instant reward vouchers on shift.
Pension Scheme.
Free Life Assurance.
A supportive and collaborative work environment.
The chance to be part of a passionate team dedicated to coffee excellence.
Where you'll work
Bradford Avenue Retail Park
Weaversthorpe Road
Bradford
BD4 6SX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
INSPIRO LEARNING LIMITED
Training course
Food and beverage team member (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Serve food and beverages to individual business standards.
- Identify opportunities and apply techniques to increase sales and improve customer experience.
- Tailors communication techniques to meet customer needs and build rapport.
- Maintain a safe, hygienic, and secure working environment.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
- Follow food safety and allergen legislation and procedures applicable to own role.
- Use technology and equipment in line with business policy to meet customer needs.
- Handle transactions and payments securely.
- Work as part of a team to ensure that the products and services are delivered on time and in line with business needs
- Deal with or escalate issues that impact service and customer experience, and implement any instructions given by supervisor.
- Use professional methods of communication that are tailored to different situations, and individual and team needs.
- Manages own time and workload, prioritising tasks.
- Maintain and rotate stock according to life cycle and business processes.
- Ensure equipment and technology faults and maintenance issues are reported promptly.
- Check customers are satisfied with products and services through questioning and act on feedback in line with business procedures.
- Keep up to date with changes to products and processes.
- Uses feedback to improve own performance.
- Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
- Follows and supports equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
- Participate in team briefings, implementing instructions, and offering input or feedback where relevant.
- Serve food and beverages to individual business standards.
- Identify opportunities and apply techniques to increase sales and improve customer experience.
- Tailors communication techniques to meet customer needs and build rapport.
- Maintain a safe, hygienic, and secure working environment.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
- Follow food safety and allergen legislation and procedures applicable to own role.
- Use technology and equipment in line with business policy to meet customer needs.
- Handle transactions and payments securely.
- Work as part of a team to ensure that the products and services are delivered on time and in line with business needs
- Deal with or escalate issues that impact service and customer experience, and implement any instructions given by supervisor.
- Use professional methods of communication that are tailored to different situations, and individual and team needs.
- Manages own time and workload, prioritising tasks.
- Maintain and rotate stock according to life cycle and business processes.
- Ensure equipment and technology faults and maintenance issues are reported promptly.
- Check customers are satisfied with products and services through questioning and act on feedback in line with business procedures.
- Keep up to date with changes to products and processes.
- Uses feedback to improve own performance.
- Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
- Follows and supports equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
- Participate in team briefings, implementing instructions, and offering input or feedback where relevant.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
23.5 Degrees is Starbucks first UK franchised business partner. We opened our first store in February 2013 and now have 100 stores (59 which are Drive Thru) across the UK with another 25 in the pipeline over the next year. In just ten years we have built this company from one store to 100 and are excited to have reached such a major milestone in our company’s history. We’re able to move fast on great new sites. We’re keeping our foot on the gas and will continue to create spaces that foster connection, build bridges between communities, and champion the values that define us – aiming to reach 300 stores in the next four years.
Company benefits
30% discount on Starbucks merchandise and products on and off shift. Discounts and Cash back are available through our benefits platform - including 100's high street stores. Free drinks on shift. Wellness programmes.
After this apprenticeship
After completion of the apprenticeship you could progress into a supervisory or team leading role.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INSPIRO LEARNING LIMITED
Debbie Pennington
debbie.pennington@inspirolearning.co.uk
0116 504 0275
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335318.
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Closes in 28 days (Monday 1 September 2025)
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