PART TIME – PASTRY CHEF IN SPECIALIST BAKERY
£9-£10 ph, Part Time
The Free From Bakehouse is looking for a part-time skilled pastry chef to join us at our production unit in Battersea. We’re an established artisan gluten free bakery that Bakes from scratch and makes a wide range of award winning baked goods for wholesale customers throughout London.
Due to business expansion we now have a new opening for an experienced Pastry Chef who’s looking for a part-time role for approximately 18-22 hours a week*.
The role is split into baking, decorating and preparing for despatch and is a job for someone who’s worked in a busy commercial or artisan bakery that specialises in cakes and cupcakes (not a bread bakery).
Whilst you need to have a minimum experience of 2 years or more as a pastry chef, you do not need to have experience of gluten free baking.
Creative cake decorating skills (not sugarpaste) are required for masking and finishing layer cakes and cupcakes in a contemporary style, however please note this is not a cake decorating role.
You will work alongside the Head Pastry Chef baking whole cakes, traybakes and small Bakes etc. And will:
• Be very organised, with an efficient approach to work
• Work calmly and efficiently when preparing cake orders and baking whilst maintaining high quality of appearance
• Have a keen eye for detail and a passion for baking and decorating with high standards
• Can work under pressure to meet deadlines and be flexible with time
• Be able to plan/prioritise workload based on orders and delivery schedule
• Friendly and engaging communication skills as you will be working in a small team
Location: SW11 5 QL. Benefits: Pension. Fruit. Cake. Pro-rata equivalent of 28 days holiday
Immediate start but will wait for the right person.
*Flexibility is key to the working hours of this role. Ideally, we require you to work daily – Mon to Fri late afternoon/early evening (3pm to 7-8pm approximately.). We may consider working hours on Saturday should some week days not be convenient and/or in addition to very busy times or should the role expand. Please note you will be required to work FT when the head baker is on holiday.