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We are on the look out for passionate people to join The Sidwell Street Bakehouse team.Are you a community-minded baker, pastry chef, or even a cyclist? Get involvedSt Sidwell's Community Centre St Sidwell's is a diverse and vibrant community centre in the heart of Exeter. We offer volunteering and work-experience placements, run a community cafe and bakery, hire rooms to local organisations, grow veg, compost food waste, run English for Speakers of Other Languages classes - and lots more. We have a small staff team, and lots of committed volunteers. We are committed to being inclusive and our volunteering opportunities are open to all, so we have a wide range of people with different skills and life experiences working together every day in the bakery and the community centre. You can find out more about our work on our website: The Sidwell Street Bakehouse We make sourdough bread and sourdough sweet treats, savoury snacks and a range of cakes, all using stoneground organic flour. We are also part of the South West Grain Network and we are mainly working with locally grown and milled flour. Our busy bakery at 178/179 Sidwell Street started life as micro-bakery at the community centre to provide more volunteering placements as well as working towards a sustainable income stream for the centre. After running a crowdfunding campaign in 2020, we moved the bakery across the road into our current premises. The bakery is an integral part of Sidwell's Community Centre. St Sidwell's Community Centre, Charity number: Sidwell Street, Charity company number: Exeter, EX4 6NN Trading Company number: Who are we looking for? We are expanding our team, following an increase in wholesale custom and getting busier every day in the bakery. We are looking for new staff members to be part of that. We want to hear from you if you love bread and people great cooks and bakers who are happy sharing their skills and knowledge and supporting others to learn.We are also keen to hear from any speedy (but safe) cyclists who might be interested in taking on bread delivery rides on our electric cargo bike. We are flexible as to whether you're looking to just bake, just cycle or do a mix of both.Community Baker Role This is our general role description, but we are open to shaping something that works for you and the bakery. If you're more of a pastry chef, or more into the bread side, we can tailor the role. Responsibilities General sourdough bread production responsibilities: sourdough starter maintenance, mixing, bench, and oven work General cake production responsibilities: mixing, scaling, baking Flexible support of bakery functioning including deliveries, retail and market Management and cleaning of the bakery space - including COSHH and HACCP compliance Product development Taking and managing wholesale orders Supervising market stalls Identifying new sales opportunities Managing and ordering stock, taking deliveries Keyholder for the Bakehouse Supervision, mentoring and training of bakery volunteers/trainees Delivering bread on our electric cargo bike Supporting bread classes Contribution to team meetings and project development Other duties as required by St Sidwell's Centre The job description is not exhaustive and may change depending on the need and development of the project and organisation.Skills, experience, qualifications etc.We are looking for someone with as many of the following personal qualities, skills and experiences as possible. We don't expect candidates to have all of the desirables below, but these are the things we are looking for across our whole team. If you have lots of experience and skills in one area but less in others, we would encourage you to apply or contact us for a chat.FoodCaf/catering experienceProfessional sourdough baking experienceConfident and creative cook and/or bakerFood hygiene qualificationPassion for good food Interest in/understanding of nutritionInterest in sustainable and local food, and creating better food systems for the community and environmentExperience developing new products and costing themExperience with food diaries for environmental health and other paperwork related to HACCP and COSSHVolunteers and communityLoves working with peopleExperience working with and supportingvolunteersConfidence communicating with people from a wide range of backgroundsExperience supporting individuals facing barriers to participation and with different needsExperience working in a community organisation/charityTeaching or training experience or qualificationsAdmin and other skillsStrong numeracy skillsAdministrative skillsConfident user of IT software at a basic level including email, word, excel and file sharing systemsAble to ride a bicycle for our wholesale deliveries we have an electric cargo bikeShifts The bakery opens Monday-Saturday. The successful candidate must be willing to do regular early shifts (5am start) and some weekends. Please state in your application your preferred number of hours/week. Supervision The baker will be responsible to the Bakery Manager. The post will involve working with vulnerable adults and will be subject to two references and an enhanced DBS disclosure. Contract Pay dependent on experience our minimum pay is Real Living Wage 33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays) pro rata, with additional day added for every year of serviceJob Types: Part-time, PermanentPay: From 13.07 per hourBenefits:Language training providedWork Location: In person