{"id":1080,"date":"2026-06-02T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:25:57","slug":"were-hiring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Hiring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><strong>Part-time Vacancy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"p2\"><i>Kitchen Assistant \/ Dry Food Packer<\/i><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Mulberry Bush Wholefoods is looking for a part time member of staff to join our team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">We are a busy, friendly independent health-food store &amp; vegetarian cafe in the heart of Lampeter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">All our dishes are made from scratch and we package a lot of dried goods for sale in the shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">We are looking for someone to work both in the cafe and the shop but primarily to work upstairs<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">to help with food prep and dry food packaging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>Duties will include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 preparing salads and vegetables for our vegetarian cafe<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 serving coffee and lunches to customers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 packaging dry foods for resale in the shop<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 washing up and keeping the cafe clean and tidy<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 cleaning and maintaining our food hygiene standards<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 serving customers in the shop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>A successful applicant will have:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 experience in catering \/ retail<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 a keen interest in vegetarian food<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 an interest in creating delicious wholesome veggie salads<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 basic maths skills &#8211; cash handling and weighing out dry foods<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 a great work ethic<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 availability on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays and flexibility to do extra \/ different days on<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">occasion to help cover annual leave \/ sickness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 good hygiene and cleaning skills<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 an ability to speak Welsh (<i>even tipyn bach<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Full training will be provided but previous experience in catering \/ retail \/ health food industry will<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">be an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">STARTING DATE :<\/span> <\/strong>Monday 29th June 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Variable Hours: 15 hours a week &#8211; up to 22.5 hours per week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Shifts: Monday 9-5.30, Friday 9-5.30, Saturday 9-5.30<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Pay: \u00a312.90 starting wage increasing to \u00a313.25 after a probationary \/ training period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>APPLYING :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Please apply in writing <a href=\"mailto:[hello@mulberrywholefoods.co.uk]?subject=Job Application-Kicthen_Prep\">with this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">or, bring a C.V. and cover letter into the shop (<i>2 Bridge st. Lampeter, SA48 7HG<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>CLOSING DATE:<\/strong> Wednesday 24th June 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>INTERVIEWS:<\/strong> Friday 26th &amp; Saturday 27th June<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>STARTING DATE:<\/strong> Monday 29th June<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1083\" src=\"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Job-Advert-KitchenAssist-FoodPack-2026-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Job-Advert-KitchenAssist-FoodPack-2026-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Job-Advert-KitchenAssist-FoodPack-2026-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Job-Advert-KitchenAssist-FoodPack-2026-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Job-Advert-KitchenAssist-FoodPack-2026-1087x1536.png 1087w, https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Job-Advert-KitchenAssist-FoodPack-2026.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part-time Vacancy Kitchen Assistant \/ Dry Food Packer &nbsp; Mulberry Bush Wholefoods is looking for a part time member of staff to join our team. We are a busy, friendly independent health-food store &amp; vegetarian cafe in the heart of Lampeter. All our dishes are made from scratch and we package a lot of dried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[358,154,359,273],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hiring","tag-job","tag-staff","tag-vacancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mulberrywholefoods.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}