Job Description
We are on the look out for passionate people to join our Bakehouse and Café team.
TO APPLY YOU MUST USE OUR APPLICATION FORM AVAILABLE AT: www.stsidwells.org.uk/work-with-us - we will not accept applications through any other format.
St 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 ESOL 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. You can find out more about our work on our website: www.stsidwells.org.uk
Food at St Sid’s
The Sidwell Street Café is right at the heart of community centre and it’s the first thing people experience when they walk in. We serve a range of affordable, homemade food with our staff team and volunteers. We have a strong focus on using surplus food, as well as some ingredients from our garden. We are planning to build a large greenhouse on our grounds later this year to increase the supply of salads etc! Currently our café operates Monday-Friday 9-3pm.
Volunteering in the café has always been one of the most popular choices for volunteers so in 2018 we set up a micro-bakery at the community centre to provide more volunteering placements as well as working towards a sustainable income stream for the centre. In 2020 we moved the bakery to new premises across the road in a disused shop. We make sourdough bread and treats using stoneground organic flour. The bakery currently operates Wednesday-Saturday with shifts starting from 5am.
St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Charity number: 1122697
Sidwell Street, Charity company number: 06434019
Exeter, EX4 6NN Trading Company number: 11320571
Who are we looking for?
We are expanding our team and we are looking for two new staff members to be part of that. We are looking for people who love food and people – great cooks and bakers who are happy sharing their skills and knowledge and supporting others to learn. One role will primarily be based in the bakery and the other in the café, but we want staff to have regular opportunities to work across both sites. We are hiring for a total of 27.5 hours in the bakery and 27.5 hours in the café, but we are flexible about how this could work. It might be two people doing 27.5 hours each, someone working
35 hours across both sites and someone working 20 hours mainly at one site, or any other combination! Everyone in the team gets involved with all our other activities now and again.
Community Café Worker
Responsibilities
- Preparing and cooking food from our menu and daily specials
- Baking cakes
- Input into designing new menus
- Customer service
- Making barista coffee
- Management of the kitchen, café space and other facilities including cleaning,
COSHH and HACCP compliance
- Ordering and managing stock
- Keyholder for the community centre
- Supervision, mentoring and training of café volunteers
- Supporting cookery classes
- Contribution to team meetings and project development
- Other duties as required by St Sidwell’s Centre
Potential for additional responsibilities
There is scope for the successful candidate to take on additional kitchen management responsibilities in menu development with a focus on nutrition and sustainability, planning, costing and budgeting. Additional responsibility would be reflected in salary.
St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Charity number: 1122697
Sidwell Street, Charity company number: 06434019
Exeter, EX4 6NN Trading Company number: 11320571
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.
Essential Desirable
Food
Café/catering experience Food hygiene qualification
Confident and creative cook and/or baker Interest in/understanding of nutrition
Passion for good food Experience designing and costing menus
Interest in sustainable and local food, and Experience with food diaries for creating better food systems for the environmental health and other community and environment paperwork related to HACCP and COSSH
Volunteers and community
Loves working with people Experience working with and supporting volunteers
Confidence communicating with people Experience supporting individuals facing from a wide range of backgrounds barriers to participation
Experience working in a community organisation/charity
Teaching or training experience or qualifications
Admin and other skills
Strong numeracy skills Administrative skills
Confident user of IT software at a basic level including email, word, excel and file sharing systems
Shifts
The café is open Monday-Friday 9-3pm, and shifts are generally between 8am and 4pm.
Exact shift pattern can be negotiated with the successful candidate. Some evening and weekend work may be required occasionally for special events.
Supervision
The café worker will be responsible to the Café Manager. The post will involve working with vulnerable adults and will be subject to two references and an enhanced DBS disclosure.
St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Charity number: 1122697
Sidwell Street, Charity company number: 06434019
Exeter, EX4 6NN Trading Company number: 11320571
Community Baker 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
- 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
Essential Desirable
Food
Café/catering experience Professional sourdough baking experience
Confident and creative cook and/or baker Food hygiene qualification
Passion for good food Interest in/understanding of nutrition
Interest in sustainable and local food, and Experience developing new products and creating better food systems for the costing them community and environment
Experience with food diaries for environmental health and other paperwork related to HACCP and COSSH
Volunteers and community
Loves working with people Experience working with and supporting volunteers
St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Charity number: 1122697
Sidwell Street, Charity company number: 06434019
Exeter, EX4 6NN Trading Company number: 11320571
Confidence communicating with people Experience supporting individuals facing from a wide range of backgrounds barriers to participation
Experience working in a community organisation/charity
Teaching or training experience or qualifications
Admin and other skills
Strong numeracy skills Administrative skills
Confident user of IT software at a basic Able to ride a bicycle for our wholesale level including email, word, excel and file deliveries – we have an electric cargo bike sharing systems
Shifts
We currently operate Wednesday-Saturday, but hope to add Tuesdays in the next couple of month. The successful candidate must be willing to do one early shift per week, with the earliest start time of 5am, and some Saturday shifts (we share these among the team).
Supervision
The baker will be responsible to the Bakehouse Manager. The post will involve working with vulnerable adults and will be subject to two references and an enhanced DBS disclosure.
For both roles
Salary etc
£12.12/hour
33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays) pro rata, with additional day added for every year of service
How to apply
To apply, please complete the application form available on our website and return to [email protected].
In your application, please indicate whether you are applying to work in the bakery, café of both. Let us know your ideal number of hours, as well as the minimum and maximum number of hours you would be happy to work.
You should include all relevant qualifications and experience to help demonstrate that you have the skills and experience we have outlined.
If you have any questions, or would like to visit prior to submitting an application, please let us know.
St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Charity number: 1122697
Sidwell Street, Charity company number: 06434019
Exeter, EX4 6NN Trading Company number: 11320571
Application deadline: 19th May 2023 at 9am.
Interviews and trial shifts: w/c 22nd May 2023
St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Charity number: 1122697
Sidwell Street, Charity company number: 06434019
Exeter, EX4 6NN Trading Company number: 11320571
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 17.5-35 per week
Salary: £12.12 per hour
Benefits:
- Language training provided
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Exeter, EX4 6NN: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 19/05/2023
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