Great coffee. Big Impact.
About the role
We are on the lookout for skilled and passionate Café staff to join our team at The Little Social's Alfred Hospital location! If you are looking on the floor with a team passionate about coffee, community and impact, here is your chance.
At The Little Social, every coffee and every meal served does more than fuel the day, it fuels change. We’re a social enterprise powered by Youth Projects, a Melbourne-based charity providing vital frontline support to people experiencing disadvantage, homelessness, and unemployment.
How can we further that commitment to change? Well, through our cafés, we also provide young people the chance to gain real-world hospitality experience, skills and confidence to create real opportunities through our renowned Here for Hospitality Program!
As a Café All Rounder at the new Footscray Hospital, you’ll be an all-round team player with standout barista skills, a passion for good food and even better service; helping us deliver an exceptional café experience to staff, patients, and visitors while creating a warm and welcoming space for everyone who walks through our doors.
What you’ll be doing
About you
More about us, The Little Social
At The Little Social you’re serving more than just a hot drink on a cold morning, you’re giving the community the power to contribute to a wider cause, one that they believe in! We are looking beyond the cup of coffee in front of us and using our platform as a tool to empower young people to lead meaningful lives. Each young person has a platform at The Little Social to build self-confidence, gain key employability skills and genuine work experience in a supportive and judgement free environment.
The Little Social is powered by Youth Projects - an independent, registered charity who provides front line support to individuals and young people experiencing disadvantage, homelessness, unemployment, alcohol and other drug issues through a range of holistic and wrap around support services. Youth Projects is on a mission to provide high impact support, without judgement, full stop.
Why join us?
Working at The Little Social means being part of something bigger than a café job. You’ll join a passionate team where coffee, food, and community come together, and every shift supports life-changing work through Youth Projects.
What's in it for me?
Ready to apply?
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your resume and cover letter via the “ Apply for the Job” button.
Recruitment will be undertaken as applications are received, and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Recruitment for this position will be undertaken as applications are received, and only successful applicants will be notified. Please note that it is a requirement of all Youth Projects positions that the successful applicant holds a valid Working Children’s Check or Police Check.
Our commitment to diversity: At Youth Projects, we value diversity and believe that people from a range of backgrounds bring a variety of ideas, perspectives, and experiences that will enhance our effectiveness. We promote a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome, and value unique contributions and encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and Indigenous candidates.
Safety screening: Youth Projects is committed to being a child-safe organisation, providing an environment where children who come into contact with the organisation feel safe. Youth Projects has zero tolerance.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
