Apprentice Food and beverage team member

The Greenhouse cafe

Leeds (LS26 9ET)

Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 16 September 2025

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Summary

Are you looking to start a career in the catering industry? The Green house Cafe in Methley have an exciting opportunity to join a growing team. You will learn everything from how to deliver excellent customer service to food preparation, stock control and food hygiene. Does this sound like a good fit for you? If so, apply today!

Wage

£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Food and beverage team member (level 2)
Hours
Varied hours. The cafe is open from 9:30am to 3pm Wednesday to Sunday. Staff working hours on those days can be flexible depending on demand but are generally 9am till 3:15pm. Our prep/baking day is Tuesday 8am until 11am.

30 hours a week

Start date

Sunday 5 October 2025

Duration

1 year

Positions available

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

  • Front of house serving customers & taking payments.
  • Barista duties.
  • Preparing and cooking food.
  • Cleaning and ensuring food hygiene standards are maintained throughout the cafe.
  • Baking.
  • Stock control.
  • Maintaining external and internal staff and customer areas, for example toilets.
  • Washing up and closing cafe at end of shift.

Progressing onto the following additional duties once competent for additional responsibility. 

1. Day to day cafe management, for example opening and closing premises.

2. Stock control and ordering.

3. Staff management.

4. Cashing up.

Where you'll work

Shann Hall Station Road
Methley
Leeds
LS26 9ET

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP

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

You will attend our Printworks campus at Leeds City College one day per week for theory and practical learning. 

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
  • Attention to detail
  • Customer care skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this employer

The Greenhouse cafe is based Station Road, Methley, LS26. We are a growing business and are now recruiting an apprentice join our friendly team,

After this apprenticeship

Full time employment on completion of apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341956.

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Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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