Barista/all Rounder

Melly’s Market + Café is looking for a people to join our team that are passionate about coffee and would love the opportunity to teach and coach adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

You’d be great for this role if you:

- Have a passion for coffee and previous experience in a barista role
- Have excellent communication skills
- Consider yourself a “people person,” and enjoy meeting others.
- Are patient and stay calm under pressure
- Have a passion for creating more opportunities within the disability community

This would be an ideal role for someone looking to gain more experience in teaching, training or coaching.

Working as a Barista Coach, you will:

- Be passionate about making a great coffee for every customer and coaching our team of talent on proper milk steaming and quality espresso.
- Serve great coffee, handcrafted beverages and baked goods to our customers
- Know our menu inside and out and provide hands-on training and support to each adult with disability in our training program and on the floor.
- Lead by influence by having excellent customer service skills
- Develop activities (from a lesson plan) such as baking, drink making, merchandising, cleaning, health and safety that mimic the tasks completed as an employee of a busy cafe
- Teach and mentor each trainee and provide lots of positive support and guidance
- Coach adults with disabilities through our Drink Menu and POS system for our Interactive Development Program

**Qualifications**:

- Barista experience is required

**Assets**:

- Previous leadership experience
- Experience or education in teaching, training or coaching
- Previous experience with persons with intellectual and development disabilities

**Salary**: From $18.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Whitby, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Barista: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person