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Join Our Team as an Additional Café Assistant at MeCycle!

Reference: AB-MCACA
Location: Southport
Hours: As and when required (Bank)
Salary: Up to £12.21 per hour

Are you enthusiastic, friendly, and love being part of a vibrant community? MeCycle Café in Southport is looking for Additional Café Assistants to join our team on a part-time or casual basis!

About MeCycle Café: MeCycle Café isn’t just a café—it’s a lively social hub and bike shop. Owned by Autism Initiatives, our café is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where autistic individuals can gain valuable work experience. Established in 2011, we started by recycling and refurbishing donated bikes. Now, we’re a beloved spot for locals and cyclists from all over, serving up delicious home-cooked food, cakes, and special treats.

We offer a fantastic selection of bikes, from new ones to lovingly refurbished classics, and provide expert repairs by our Cytec qualified bike mechanics. Our café is a hotspot for cyclists from North Wales, Manchester, Chorley, and beyond. It’s a place where families, couples, and groups gather to enjoy barista coffees, exciting teas, cold drinks, beers, wines, and homemade goodies.

About the Role: We’re looking for someone with a knack for excellent communication and a passion for providing outstanding customer service. Whether you’re good with food or just love serving up smiles, we want to hear from you. Flexibility is key, as you’ll need to be available for evenings and weekends, including some shifts involving bar work, food preparation, or event support. Don’t worry if you don’t have a Food and Hygiene Certificate—we’ll provide all the training you need!

Why Join Us? At MeCycle, you’ll be part of a team that’s making a real difference. We work alongside local schools to create meaningful work placements for young autistic people. Your role will help them gain valuable work and social skills, boost their confidence and self-esteem, improve their health and wellbeing, and support them into employment.

The Closing date for completed applications is 12th October 2025

Additional Information:

• All positions are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, with costs covered by Autism Initiatives.
• Café Assistants work on a rota basis, including weekends and evenings.

How to Apply: Ready to join our fun and dedicated team? Apply now by completing an application form on our website: https://autisminitiativesjobs.org/jobs/additional-cafe-assistant/

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and service delivery. For more information about us, visit www.autisminitiatives.org.

In addition to excellent rates of pay, a contributory pension and generous holiday entitlements, you will enjoy an enhanced range of benefits designed to reward the outstanding support that staff provide. Some of these benefits start immediately, whilst others are awarded at later dates in recognition of loyalty, dedication and long service.

Full details of all staff benefits are available on our intranet once you start working with us as benefits may vary from role to role, but here’s a brief run-down of a few of them:

• Monthly staff cash prize draw
• Your birthday off work every year
• Medicash health scheme, providing cash towards medical costs, gym discounts and more
• Employee Assistance Programme – free support from experts on a wide range of subjects from childcare and probate, to managing money and work life balance.
• Additional paid holidays after 1, 2 and 3 years’ service
• Extra paid holidays in milestone service years
• Financial wellbeing programme providing flexible access to pay
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Career break scheme
• Wagestream financial planning and support App – enables you to access money earned before pay day, set up savings and gain control of your finances

Our application form will ask you for information so it’s a great idea to have these to hand before you get started:

• Your previous employment: we will require confirmation of the past 5 years of your employment history
• Relevant qualifications to the role
• A minimum of 2 reference contact details, one of which must be your current/most recent employer.
• For further Tips on completing your application, please refer to our download on the “Apply Now” section.

If you’re struggling to complete the form, have any questions, or need support simply click on our need help button, pop in a few contact details, and one of recruitment team will be in touch.

Thinking of joining Autism Initiatives? Read why our amazing staff teams are #ProudtoworkHere

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