Patisserie Chef/Baker

The White Horse; Flaxley; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff accommodation

Staff meals on shift

Gym membership

Cycle scheme

Charity day off

Wine at cost

Assistant/support for suppliers visits

Job summary

Anglian Country Inns seeks a baker to lead production in busy kitchens, creating a range of sweet and savoury products for our coffee shop and restaurants. You will drive standards, ensure quality, and be a strong role model within the team.

The role focuses on maintaining safety, consistency, and excellent guest experience while collaborating with the head baker and head chef; staff support and a positive, proactive attitude are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in producing a range of sweet and savoury bakery products.
• Ability to lead in a kitchen and maintain high standards.
• Strong organisation and ability to work in a busy environment.

Responsibilities

• Keep guests safe by ensuring correct control measures.
• Drive standards and knowledge to create a range of sweet and savoury products for our coffee shop and restaurants.
• Champion your products to exceed guests’ expectations.
• Communicate regularly with the head baker and head chef around creation of products, quality and consistency.
• Take a lead in the kitchen.
• Build and maintain relationships with our suppliers.
• Communicate positively with the wider team.
• Be a great role model and set the standards for our guests and team.
• Display the ACI values and work towards our mission of ‘making people happy’.

Job description

Who are you?

A cool, calm, confident presence and support for our kitchens in producing a range of products for our coffee shop and restaurants. As baker, you will thrive on taking responsibility, driving standards, delivering consistently, challenging yourself and the things you see around you. Our kitchens are busy places so a level head, great organisation, delivered every time, with a smile, is the key to success.

This is a very exciting and flexible role for the right person and is based mainly of production of quality products.

What’s the role?

• Keep guests safe at all times by ensuring the correct control measures are in place
• Drive standards and knowledge to create a range of sweet and savoury products for our coffee shop and restaurants
• Champion your products to exceed our guests’ expectations
• Communicate regularly with our head baker and head chef around creation of products, quality and consistency
• Take a lead in the kitchen
• Build and maintain relationships with our suppliers
• Communicate positively with the wider team.
• Being a great role model and setting the standards for our guests and team
• Displaying the ACI values each and every day and working towards our company mission of ‘making people happy’

What’s in it for you?

• Generous discount across all ACI sites on both food and drink
• Regular trips out to suppliers locally and internationally
• Great share of tips and tronc
• Staff Accommodation available
• Staff meals on shift
• Gym membership
• Rising Stars program for career progression within the company
• Cycle scheme - Money off a bike
• ‘Live your life’, charity day off each year
• Wine at cost

Anglian Country Inns

Anglian Country Inns is a family run business that first opened its doors over twenty seven years ago and now we have nine award winning establishments across East Anglia, a coffee shop and brewery to boot!