Cafe Manager
Pebble Brook School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8LZ7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st October 2025
Closing date
16 September 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
9 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,158.00 - £35,725.00 Annually (Actual) Bucks Pay Range 5 - £33,158 to 35,725 per annum
Cafe Manager job summary
Pebble Brook School is a community special school that believes everyone can succeed. We want our pupils to be safe and happy in school. We want our pupils to be proud of their school and feel respected. We aim to support the development of children (aged 11 - 19) with communication and interaction needs including speech, language and communication needs, autistic spectrum disorder and moderate learning difficulties.
About the role: This role requires a proactive and community-focused individual to manage the day-to-day operations of the community café. The role involves ensuring excellent customer service and high operational standards, while developing the café as a vibrant and inclusive space for the local community. A key focus will be to create meaningful work experience and training opportunities in hospitality and catering for young people, particularly those with additional needs. The successful candidate will also take a lead on sales and marketing initiatives to increase footfall, raise the café’s profile, and enhance community engagement. The post holder will line manage the Deputy Café Manager and provide leadership and support to the wider café team.
Pebble Brook provides you the opportunity to work with specialist teachers and support staff supporting the needs of our students with their education in preparation for adulthood. Please see the job description attached for more information.
Experience of working with children will be desirable. Good communication skills with adults, children and young adults are preferred, as are good literacy and numeracy skills, good written and spoken English and a good working knowledge of ICT to be able to use ICT effectively to support learning.
Pebble Brook School is a secondary Special School for approximately 180 pupils aged 11-19 with a range of additional needs. The school is based on an attractive site in the centre of Aylesbury and maintained by Buckinghamshire Local Authority, however, the café is located off site as part of the local community. Our pupils come from all over the county, some have attended primary special schools whilst others have previously been in mainstream schools across the county.
Safeguarding
Pebble Brook follows Buckinghamshire Council guidelines for safer recruitment. This position will be subject to safer recruitment checks, Social Media checks and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. We welcome applications regardless of ability, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Please complete the Self-Declaration form included included with the attached documents and submit with your application.
This school is fully committed to safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people in all aspects of its work, including recruitment, and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Safe in Education 2023 online searches will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. The search is not part of the shortlisting process itself, and candidates will have a chance to address any issues of concern that come up during the search at interview
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
- All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2020). For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro Guidance the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance or Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance (see in particular, the section titled 'Exceptions Order').
Its and offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-disclosure form and return prior to interview. Pebble Brook School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced Data & Barring Service check will be required from the successful candidate.
Interviews: Confirmed on Application
Other info: Visits to the café are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01296 415761 Email: office@pebblebrookschool.com
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Pebble Brook School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 172 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Pebble Brook School website
School location
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