We know health. We're still learning café. That's where you come in.

Movement Therapy is a physiotherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy and exercise physiology practice with clinics in Picton and Wollongong. Around 400 to 600 patients and 80 members walk through our Picton doors every week. The Hip Joint is our café, sitting right inside the Picton clinic. It exists for a reason bigger than coffee. Loneliness and social isolation are real health problems, and a café inside a health business gives people a low pressure place to connect. Our members get their coffee on us. Locals drop in because we're already being called some of the best coffee in Picton.

We're looking for an experienced barista who wants to lead: someone who knows how to run a outstanding café, can show us how to do it well, and wants to grow it with us.

Where this role is going

This is not a stopgap job. Right now the job is to make The Hip Joint a great café: really good, fast coffee, a tight menu of healthy food and smoothies, and a place people come back to every day. As Movement Therapy grows, the café grows with it. Our plans include a restaurant, a wholefood shop, a teaching kitchen and new sites, all built around food that fits our health mission. The person we hire now leads the café side of that from the start. If your long term ambition is to build and run hospitality businesses, this is a place where that can happen.

Who we're looking for

- An experienced barista who wants to lead. You know what a great café looks like from the inside and you're ready to own one.
- A real passion for coffee and a habit of getting better at it: tasting shots, dialling in through the day, chasing better milk and latte art.
- Fast, calm and consistent on the machine. We're a small window café doing a lot of coffees, so speed and quality both matter.
- Warm and easy to talk to.



Many of our regulars are patients and members working on their health, and you'll get to know them by name.
- Someone who gets why a café inside a health business matters, and is interested in health as well as coffee.
- Full ownership of the café: operations, stock, ordering, cleanliness, opening and closing.
- Motivated to lead, grow and contribute in a self managed, flat structured team. No managers watching over you. You're trusted to make decisions and expected to own the results.

The role

Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, no weekends, based at The Hip Joint in Picton. The café trades 6am to 2pm. You'll anchor the café through the week, working alongside one or two casual baristas and our admin and clinic teams. Start: October, or as soon as you're free.

What you'll do

- Make excellent, consistent coffee, quickly, every day, and set the standard for the team
- Assist with basic food preparation and service, including heating, toasting, portioning and packaging items
- Grow the business: more regulars, more coffees, more reasons to come in
- Build and own the café's operations: systems, stock, ordering, suppliers, menu, machine care
- Train and develop our barista team
- Show Movement Therapy how to run a café well. We'll ask a lot of questions and we'll listen
- Contribute to our weekly café meeting and own the improvements that come out of it
- All going well, help plan and open new cafés as Movement Therapy opens new sites

Experience

- Barista experience in a busy café (essential)




- Experience running or leading a café, or leading a team in hospitality
- Confident milk texturing and latte art
- Food prep and food safety experience
- A track record of growing something: sales, a team, a menu, a following

We hire on attitude, adaptability and cultural fit. If you're a great barista who wants to lead and build, we want to hear from you.

What we offer

- Salary: $67,700 – $83,000 per year plus super, depending on experience and hours. Pay grows as you progress through Movement Therapy's structured pay scale, and the top of the café scale is paid the same as the top of our clinic admin scale.
- Profit share. You grow the café, you share in what it earns. As The Hip Joint becomes more profitable, so do you. Details agreed at offer stage.
- Monday to Friday only. Your weekends are yours.
- A real leadership pathway: lead the café now, then grow into food, retail and new sites as we expand
- Training contribution: we'll contribute to the training you want, whether that's ONA Coffee courses or something else
- Five weeks of annual leave
- A self managed team where your voice counts and you're trusted to run your area
- Regular social catch ups and a team that celebrates wins

How to apply

Please send to [email protected]

1. Your resume or CV
2. A short cover letter
3. Two short videos (no longer than 2 minutes each)

Video 1: Coffee, health and you. Tell us how you got into coffee, what you love about it, why a café inside a health business appeals to you, and where you want your career to go. Video 2: A mistake you've made. Tell us about a time at work where you got something wrong. What happened, how did it affect the people around you, and what did you learn from it?

Only successful applicants will be contacted.

www.movementtherapy.net.au

📌 Lead Barista – Full Time, Career and Leadership Role (Picton)
🏢 Movement Therapy
📍 Picton