Café Manager - Spectrum

Join the Energy at Freedom Leisure – Do Good Feel Good!

At Freedom Leisure, we’re all about positive vibes, great people, and making a real impact. Yes, we run leisure and cultural facilities, gyms, and swimming pools—but at the heart of it all, it’s our people who make the difference.

As one of the UK’s leading charitable leisure trusts, we’re proud of our mission of Improving Lives Through Leisure. We’re here to help communities live healthier, happier lives by making our centres welcoming, inclusive, and accessible to everyone – because everyone deserves to feel good. We’re all about delivering amazing customer service with a smile—every single day. We create spaces where people feel at home, supported, and inspired.

If you’re passionate about helping others and love creating great experiences, you’ll feel right at home with us. You don’t need to be an expert to get started - we’ll give you all the training and support you need. With over 130 centres across England and Wales, there’s loads of room to grow. Many of our team have built amazing careers doing what they love, helping customers day‑to‑day and making people feel good.

We’re proud to be a workplace where everyone is welcome, valued, and supported to thrive—because when our team reflects the communities we serve, we all grow stronger together.

We are looking for an experienced Café Manager to join our friendly and professional team.

Working at this iconic centre, you will be responsible for managing our Café. You will be a sales‑minded person, who is motivated by meeting monthly targets. You will have an in‑depth knowledge on food safety, be flexible in your approach to work and have excellent customer service skills. You will also be responsible for directly managing staff, rotas, expenditure, wastage, stock and cleanliness from working within the outlet.

Ideally coming from a similar role or industry you will have a good understanding of people management and be a role model for expected behaviours.

You’ll have the opportunity to learn and develop personally alongside experienced industry professionals as well as completing valuable training.

Alongside your daily duties we’ll need you to maintain the highest standards of health and safety and you’ll have a working knowledge of safe working practices to ensure we are protecting our guests and ourselves at all times.

In the event that a high volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.

Hours: 37 hours a week, Monday to Sunday (Rota basis)

Required skills:

Customer Service, Sales

Required languages:
English