Support Worker Location: Great Holm, Milton Keynes Hours: 8:30am to 4:00pm, Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week. Part-time hours considered.) Are you looking for a busy, rewarding role where no two days are the same? Join our friendly and welcoming coffee shop in Great Holm, where we support people with learning disabilities in a vibrant working environment. We re looking for someone who enjoys being active. You ll be on your feet for most of the day, moving between the kitchen and caf floor. This role suits someone who s energetic, physically fit, and happy to stay on the move while making a meaningful difference. You don t need to be a professional chef, but kitchen confidence is a must. Whether you love to cook from scratch or are just getting started with baking basics, you ll be supporting people to prepare meals, serve customers, handle money, and develop practical, work-based skills they can take forward with confidence. This is a varied and hands-on role involving everything from menu planning and food prep to customer service, till operation, and supporting catering projects. We regularly work with local partners like The Parks Trust and Bucks Fire & Rescue, offering a wide range of food services, so flexibility and a love of teamwork are key. What we re looking for: Someone who enjoys cooking or baking and feels confident in the kitchen Comfortable being on your feet and active for most of the working day Able to juggle a variety of tasks with energy and enthusiasm Warm, patient, and caring, with a passion for helping others thrive If you re excited by the idea of combining hospitality and meaningful support work, and you're happy to be on the go throughout the day, we d love to hear from you! IND1 About you Customer service and catering experience would be ideal, however this is by no means essential. Our coffee shop is very popular, and as a result this is a physically demanding role. You will enjoy a varied, flexible working pattern. This is a shift-based role supporting a rota that includes weekends and evenings. While you are working to encourage people's development, MacIntyre will also commit to supporting you to become a confident and successful support worker. This means that, whatever your working background, you will receive training to ensure we can deliver the best possible support. You must hold a UK man ual driving licence in order to drive the bakery van. About us MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism. We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone s unique gifts, talents and contributions. Training and Development At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job. But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge. Pay and Rewards We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes: Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost) MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period) Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff. Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre) How to apply If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV. Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call usand we will send an application form to you. Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today. Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining. MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. 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