Job Details:
Catering Assistant

Job Description

About the role:

The café area is an essential part of the offer for young people and our team of Catering Assistants play a key role, cooking healthy and inspiring dishes for our members as well as providing a warm and welcoming environment to all. With a free hot meal on offer to every young person attending, the café will always be a busy area of the Youth Zone.

*Although part of an integrated Empower Team, this role will be based from HideOut*

About EMPOWER

EMPOWER is the charity that oversees the creation, management and sustainability of Youth Zones in Manchester and Salford. These include HideOut Youth Zone located in Gorton, East Manchester which opened in 2020 and Salford Youth Zone located in Pendleton, which opened in 2025.

HideOut and Salford Youth Zones provide children and young people aged 8-19 and up to 25 for those with additional needs with somewhere safe to go, something position to do and someone trusted to talk to.

EMPOWER is part of the national network of OnSide Youth Zones, which supports the creation and implementation of a network of Youth Zones across the country.

Youth Zones are purpose-built spaces fizzing with energy, and crammed with incredible facilities. They are staffed by skilled and dedicated Youth Workers who truly believe in young people – helping them see what they could achieve, and giving them the skills, confidence and ambition to go for it.

This is life-changing support that helps tens of thousands of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds to thrive.

How to apply:

Please save the application as YOUR FULL NAME and submit your completed application by email, to [email protected] 

Please include in the subject title the job title of the post you have applied for and your full name.

We review applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the role at any time.

• Onsite Fitness Gym & Boxing/MMA Suite
• 33 days annual leave
• Secure cycle store
• Branded workwear
• Queen Bee’s Café - Free hot meal on session
• Flexible working
• Learning and development opportunities
• Partnership working
• Working with like-minded people and cultures
• Part of a wider network
• Workplace pension scheme
• Special Leave
• Birthday Off
• Employee Assistance Programme through
• Health Assured
• Health and Wellbeing support which includes an app – Wisdom
• Enhanced maternity and paternity
• Company Sick Pay
• Real Living Wage Employer
• Charity Worker Discount / Bright Exchange
• Discount – through EAP/Wisdom