SENIOR BAKER

We are looking for a senior baker to work alongside our Head Baker and baking team, producing bread, pastries, savoury goods, cakes, buns, and more.

Desired experience: at least two years in a commercial bakery.

Tap Social works closely with several prisons whose staff and inmates have shaped our direction and ethos. We hire people currently serving and recently released from prison sentences and support them to develop new skills, learn about setting up and running small business and get real work experience in an engaging and fast-growing industry. The right candidate should actively support our ethos.

Main responsibilities and required skills:

• Experience and understanding of production baking, including lamination and sourdough

• Proven experience of seasonal product development to a high level

• Assisting with day to day bakery production and supervising junior baking team

• Weighing, mixing, proving, baking and decorating a range of cakes, pastries and breads with great attention to detail

• Eager to learn and develop in a positive and encouraging environment

• Carry out all baking duties with care and diligence to help guarantee the production of consistently high standard of product, along with minimal levels of wastage

• Working as part of a team, learning and sharing skills and assisting in developing a positive and exciting environment for the team to work and develop in

• Flexibility and resilience with determination to consistently make products to a high standard

• Running a shift and training others

What we offer:
We aim to build a fun, creative and value-driven team working to achieve excellence, be it in the brewery, the bakery or kitchen. In return for your dedication and pastry folding skills you will get a company pension, on-site parking, great working conditions with good tools and equipment and an open and inclusive working environment. 

If you are interested in this position please email your CV with a covering letter explaining why you would like to become part of our team. Applications to be sent to paul@proofbakehouse.com

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis with a start date as soon as possible.

Job Type: Full-time 45 hours/week, permanent. Start time between 3:30am-5:30am on rotation basis 

Pay: From £35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events

• Company pension

• Discounted or free food

• Employee discount

• On-site parking

•  25% discount across all of our venues and on our products 

• an extra day of holiday for every year worked with us and carry-forward 5 days of holiday annually 

• a Top Tapper monthly reward competition

• chance to join a growing social enterprise with lots of continued opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer and are firmly committed to inclusive recruitment. All applications will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, gender orientation or identity or disability status etc.

Candidates for any role within Tap Social Movement and Proof Social Bakehouse must actively support our mission of second chance employment and must understand that they will work alongside individuals with criminal convictions.

We are part of Tap Social, an Oxfordshire-based craft brewery and hospitality social enterprise that provides training and employment opportunities to people from prison and welcoming, inclusive spaces for the whole community. Over the first 9 years of our operations and despite the major challenges of COVID for the sector, we have transformed the lives of dozens of ex-offenders by creating meaningful jobs in our own business and by brokering employment opportunities for prison leavers with our network of partner employers. We’re a rapidly growing business and this growth supports the creation of more job opportunities for prisoners and prison leavers, as well as spreading our message of inclusive recruitment more widely, ultimately scaling our social impact.

Our ambition is for a minimum of 30% of our workforce from time to time to be made up of people with lived experience of the justice system (it is often higher than this).  We regularly publish impact reporting data publicly on our progress against these goals.  To help us to achieve these aims, our hiring policy is to strive to make sure all appropriate work opportunities within the business are advertised to prisoners, prison-leavers and others with unspent criminal convictions and that where, during the hiring process, we are faced with 2 candidates equally qualified for a role, and where it is consistent with business need to do so, we will give preferential treatment to candidates with lived experience of the justice system, if to do so will help us to achieve our wider impact goals.