Hiring for Chef and Pastry Chef/Baker

We are currently hiring a chef to join our kitchen team. Experience working in a professional kitchen is essential. It is even more important that you have the right attitude and show commitment to the job. The Established Kitchen is fast paced and focuses on regular seasonal menu changes. Kitchen is open until 3pm daily, whilst there are prep and cleaning duties after 3pm, this is a daytime position. The ideal candidate can demonstrate: 

• 12 months experience working in a professional kitchen
• A genuine passion for food
• Ability to develop recipes in line with seasonal availability, sourcing ingredients and budgeting accordingly
• Competency in general running of the kitchen, including maintaining cleanliness standards and completing HACCP checks
• Level 2 Food Hygiene qualification
• Fastidious attention to detail, organisation and efficiency
• Punctuality and flexibility with working hours
• Personally presentable, chefs are required to serve the food, you must be clean and presentable at all times
• The innate desire to exceed customer service expectation at all times

Flexibility & availability to work weekends (both Saturday & Sunday) is a must Applications are invited for full-time hours, 32 to 40 hours over 5 days.

We are currently looking for an experienced pastry chef/baker to prepare a variety of pastries, pies and other sweet goods. Your skill in baking high quality treats should be matched by your creativity to develop new amazing recipes. More importantly, you have the right attitude and show commitment to the job.

The ideal candidate will be well-versed in culinary arts with a real passion for sweet and delicious creations. The goal is to enhance customer satisfaction so that we can maintain and continue to build the business. Kitchen is open until 3pm daily, whilst there are prep and cleaning duties after 3pm, this is a daytime position. The ideal candidate can demonstrate:

• 12 months experience working in a professional kitchen/bakery
• Prepare a wide variety of baked goods such as cakes, cookies, pies, bread etc. following traditional and modern recipes
• Decorate pastries using different icings, toppings etc. to ensure the presentation will be beautiful and exciting
• Monitor stocks for baking ingredients such as flour, sugar etc. and make appropriate orders within budget
• Competency in general running of the kitchen, including maintaining cleanliness standards and completing HACCP checks
• Fastidious attention to detail, organisation, and efficiency
• Punctuality and flexibility with working hours
• The innate desire to exceed customer service expectations at all times
• Certificate in culinary arts, pastry-making, baking or relevant field

Flexibility & availability to work weekends (both Saturday & Sunday) is a must Applications are invited for part-time hours, 16 to 24 hours over 4 days (potential for full-time hours). 

Established Coffee provides great conditions of employment and a rewarding atmosphere, which includes a competitive rate of pay, holiday pay in line with contracted hours and other extra benefits.

Please forward a cover letter and CV to bridgeen@established.coffee. Due to the current restrictions for takeaway only, we are keeping applications open during Jan & Feb 2021.We are remaining flexible on start dates, so if you're interested, please get in touch. Due to the level of applications we receive, we are not able to personally respond to all applicants.

 

Thanks, we look forward to hearing from you.