We’re hiring!

We work 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.


Senior Baker

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

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

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 the following benefits:

  • Company events

  • Company pension

  • Free food

  • 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

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 to info@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: £35,000.00 per year


SENIOR PIZZA CHEF

We are looking for an experienced pizza chef to join the Proof Pizza arm of our bakery, working from our beautiful new food truck at events, pop ups, and our home base at the Tap Social Taproom.

Desired experience: minimum one year in a restaurant and pizza experience, and a clean UK driving license

Main responsibilities and required skills:

  • Hand stretching and shaping sourdough pizza bases, topping them, and cooking them in our Gozney pizza ovens

  • involvement in all aspects of running and maintaining the Proof Pizza food truck

  • responsible for food hygiene and health and safety when on site

  • training of junior team members to be able to produce high quality products

  • customer service, taking orders, and liaising with customers

  • holding a valid UK driver’s license and being comfortable driving the food truck to different locations

  • ordering and stock rotation of all ingredients (dough from Proof Bakehouse, pizza toppings, gas canisters, etc.)

  • involvement in menu development and regularly changing the pizza offering

  • level 2 food hygiene and first aid qualifications ideal (though will be offered if not already qualified)

  • 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

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 skill you will get the following benefits:

  • Company events

  • Company pension

  • Free food

  • 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

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 - to info@proofbakehouse.com. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis with a start date as soon as possible.

Job Type: Full time, permanent. Mostly Wednesday to Sunday approximately 3-11pm, approximately 40 hours per week, evenings and weekends required

Pay: £14.50 per hour 

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. 

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 7 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.