Midland grand

Pastry Chef

22/01/2025
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£45000 / year

Job Description

Midland Grand Dining Room is a landmark institution in the making and is set to be the most exciting new opening of the year. Located in the iconic St Pancras building and heralding the gateway to Europe, it will be a showcase of exceptional food, incredible wine and true hospitality.

As a Pastry Chef de Partie for one of London’s most beautiful dining rooms, you will have a vital role in contributing to the chefs and team around you, helping with the day to day kitchen operations and working with incredible produce to create high quality seasonal dishes

Spanning a large dining room, a beautiful Private Dining Room, exciting Chef’s Table experience, stunning terrace and striking bar, Midland Grand is the ultimate opportunity for a Pastry Chef de Partie looking to progress their career and develop their talents.

We are looking for a proactive and driven Pastry Sous Chef to run a section and join our kitchen team with a dynamic and engaging spirit while maintaining the highest quality standards.

Come join us!

We are looking for…

· 2 years experience in a similar role

· The ability to thrive in a high volume environment while maintaining consistency

· To support the kitchen management team and work collaboratively with the chefs around you

· Ensure highly effective communication within the team

· A constant sense of professionalism and accuracy

· Ensure high standards of food preparation that are fully in line with recipes, specifications and hygiene policies

What’s in it for you…

· Gym discounts and wellness classes

· Monthly wellbeing challenges, trekking activities, sporting events.

· Party, Party Party –bi-annual theme parties.

· Monthly birthday celebrations and ‘Have one on us’ team drinks.

· Freshly cooked food during your shift

· 30% discount in stays and across all our F&B outlets

· Training to get you settled into your role, learning academies to broaden your skillset and development that helps you think, make and thrive at work

· Opportunity to join and participate in our unique GROW academy

· Bike to work scheme

· Season Ticket Loan

· Wagestream – Offering you a range of features, including up to 50% of salary stream before pay date, saving pot, financial advice.

· Recommend a friend Scheme, giving you the possibility to earn up to £500 for individual referral

· Recognition programme that allows you to exchange earned vouchers for different prizes.

· Star of the Month and Star of the Year Awards

· A supportive, people-focused culture

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • Health & wellbeing programme

Experience:

  • Baking: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Kipling cadbury

Pastry Chef

16/01/2025
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Job Description

"Great work life balance, no evenings or split shifts."

We are delighted to be recruiting for a Pastry Chef or Baker to join our pastry kitchen.

We are looking for a full time (40 hours per week) or a part time chef that has a real passion for all things pastry. This role is 5 days over 7 and some weekend work is required to suit the requirements of the business.

Harlestone is a fast paced, high-volume kitchen, so experience is beneficial. All training is provided upon induction.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Works together with the team to ensure the smooth running of the
  • pastry department.
  • Works in a clean and organised manner
  • Displays a great can-do attitude and a willingness to learn
  • Assisting with monthly stocktakes
  • Monitoring and minimising wastage
  • Ordering and stock control

Some of the jobs that may be involved on a day to day basis, but not limited to:

  • Weighing of ingredients
  • Making mixes
  • Baking
  • Portioning
  • Finishing of products

Along with a competitive salary and benefits you can also enjoy training and development and potential career progression opportunities across the Blue Diamond Group.

Salary will depend on previous experience and skills.

If you think that you fit this description and would like to join our friendly team, we would love to hear from you!

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Additional pay:

  • Performance bonus

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Hunt _Pastry

Kipling cadbury

Pastry Chef

16/01/2025
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Full Job Description

"Great work life balance, no evenings or split shifts."

We are delighted to be recruiting for a Head Pastry Chef to join our restaurant at Wilton House Garden Centre . This restaurant has undergone a complete refurbishment only 2 years ago.

Working as a chef with Blue Diamond means not only will you enjoy an attractive salary, but you will also gain a far better work life balance as we have no evening work or split shifts. Some weekend work will be required to meet the demand of the business.

We are looking for a full time (40 hours per week) that has a real passion for high quality desserts with a drive to increase sales and revenue within your department.

This is a hands on role and experience in a fast paced, high-volume kitchen and customer service skills are beneficial but not essential as all training is provided.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Ensures the smooth running of the pastry department whilst reporting directly to the restaurant manager and group development chef.
  • Providing training and support for your team.
  • Main jobs can include but not limited to: Conducting monthly stocktake in line with company procedures, ensuring correct storage and stock rotation of ingredients and items, monitoring and recording of waste, ordering, menu changes etc.
  • Works in a clean and organised manner and takes pride in their pastry offering and display counter.
  • Displays a great can-do attitude and a willingness to go above and beyond to exceed the customers’ expectations.

Along with a competitive salary and benefits you can also enjoy training and development and potential career progression opportunities across the Blue Diamond Group.

Salary will depend on previous experience and skills.

If you think that you fit this description and would like to join our friendly team, we would love to hear from you!

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Wilton_Pastry

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Wilton_Pastry

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£29743 - £29743 / year

Job Description

The Role

We are seeking a Pastry Chef to join our team. They will assist the Head Chef and Executive Head Chef in ensuring that the highest possible standards of food preparation and presentation are achieved by the College Catering Department.

Key Responsibilities

  • To provide high quality and optimum quantities of pastry section products from the college kitchens, for consumption by students, staff, Fellows and commercial customers, to include hot and cold desserts, pastry products, breads etc.
  • Ensure the timely commencement of your duties, and that you are fully briefed of the catering requirements and related tasks for the day. Be flexible in your approach to duties assisting wherever required to ensure the professional and prompt delivery of all catering services.
  • Demonstrate leadership and direction to develop other members of staff working within the pastry section.
  • Achieve and maintain the highest possible standard of health and hygiene in the kitchens and report any deficiencies to the Senior Chef on duty.
  • Ensure that the College food safety policy is always adhered to and maintain a high standard of hygiene within your section, to include the upkeep of all equipment used. Stock rotation, labelling and allergen control is essential.
  • Maximise the safe usage of food to minimise food wastage. Cost control of ingredients. Make all pastry items in house as required.
  • Foster good working relations within your team and across all sections of the Catering Department, Coffee Shop, Bar & Front of House.
  • To ensure that the HACCP procedures are followed, and all allergen information is highlighted in all recipes/dishes and is communicated to Kitchen team and Front of House staff
  • To ensure the Pastry Section remains innovative and improves standards of pastry dishes. Compiling seasonal dishes for the menus and training other chefs on all new techniques.
  • Report to your line manager any discrepancies or issues that could affect the smooth running of the department.
  • To ensure a high level of personal hygiene is always maintained and that you are appropriately dressed and wear a clean uniform each day.
  • To carry out any ad-hoc work requests as reasonably requested by the Senior Chef on duty.
  • To take part in the College’s appraisal scheme and to undertake training as required.
  • To fully comply with all the College’s policies including equality of opportunity and data protection.
  • To adopt a responsible attitude towards health and safety to comply with any procedures as required by the College to ensure the health and safety of the College community. To be familiar with the College’s Health & Safety policy and the legal responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (section 7). Be prepared to undertake any training provided in relation to health & safety.

The Person

We seek to appoint a creative person who is passionate about food.

An ideal candidate will demonstrate:

Knowledge & experience

  • NVQ Level 2 in Catering & Hospitality (Food Preparation & Cooking: Patisserie & Confectionery) or equivalent gained through an apprenticeship.
  • Food Hygiene Certificate.
  • A minimum of three years previous experience in a commercial kitchen environment, with at least one year’s experience in a similar role.
  • Experience in high volume conference and banqueting would be an advantage.
  • Management of other members of the brigade on the pastry section.
  • Cost effective ordering and menu planning and development.

Personal skills & abilities

  • Creativity, invention, and flair in food production creating a unique and exciting experience for college guests.
  • Use of modern techniques and flavours to create new pastry dishes for large numbers of people with consistent results each time.
  • Good communication skills
  • A good team worker
  • Standards-orientated with an eye for detail
  • Able to manage day to day operation of Pastry section and supervise team members.
  • Able to keep calm in pressure situations.
  • Organisation of the pastry section to ensure it is covered for each service.
  • Costing of dishes to ensure they meet the desired gross profit for each area.
  • Development of menu templates and recipes for others to use and ensure consistent dishes each time.
  • Ordering of goods with the understanding of cost.

Remuneration

The post is offered at a full-time salary of £29,743 per annum. The post holder will join the College’s auto-enrolment pension scheme with generous additional contribution options on completion of probationary period.

Hours of Work

The post is permanent and full time, an average of 37.5 hours per week to be worked on a rota to include some evening and weekend work.

Benefits

The College offers full-time members of staff 32 days holiday per year, including Bank Holidays (increase pending). All staff working over a mealtime are eligible to take a free lunch or dinner in the servery.

The College offer enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay as well as generous sick pay for those who have more than six months’ service. This is in addition to the Flexible Working Policy. More details on all of these are available in the Staff Handbook. Staff are eligible to use the Tax-Free Childcare Scheme introduced by the government to replace Childcare Vouchers.

Probationary Period/Notice

There will be a six-month probationary period. Upon successful completion of the probationary period, the notice period will be one month.

How to Apply

Please download the application form found on our website and return by email,

If you are interested in this opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible. Please note that we will be assessing applications, shortlisting and offering interviews as the applications are received. The job will close once a candidate has been appointed.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £29,743.00 per year

Additional pay:

  • Bonus scheme
  • Yearly bonus

Benefits:

  • Additional leave
  • Canteen
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounted or free food
  • Enhanced maternity leave
  • Enhanced paternity leave
  • Free parking
  • On-site parking
  • Sick pay

Work Location: In person

Mimi mei fair

Pastry Chef

15/01/2025
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Job Description

Are you a talented Pastry Chef with a passion for creating delicious and visually stunning baked goods?

Bombay Bustle is looking for an experienced Pastry Chef to join our dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assist the team with daily kitchen preparations.
  • Prepare a variety of pastries, desserts, and baked goods according to recipes and standards.
  • Measure and mix ingredients, following proper baking techniques.
  • Operate and maintain kitchen equipment, such as ovens, mixers, and dough sheeters.
  • Monitor the baking process to ensure products are cooked to perfection.
  • Decorate pastries and desserts with icing, glazes, and toppings.
  • Ensure food safety and sanitation standards are met at all times.
  • Collaborate with other kitchen staff to coordinate orders and ensure timely delivery of baked goods.

Qualifications:

  • Proven experience as a Pastry Chef or similar role in a culinary environment.
  • Strong knowledge of pastry techniques, ingredients, and equipment.
  • Ability to follow recipes accurately and consistently produce high-quality products.
  • Knowledge of food safety regulations and best practices.
  • Excellent time management skills to meet production deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Creativity and attention to detail for decorating pastries and desserts.

What We Offer:

  • A collaborative work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • The chance to be part of a fun and forward-thinking team
  • Employee discounts that open the door to some of the most prestigious restaurants in the heart of Mayfair

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food

Experience:

  • Pastry Chef: 2 years (required)
  • Restaurant: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Kipling cadbury

Pastry Chef

13/01/2025
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Job Description

Join Our Team as a Junior Pastry Chef at The Greenhouse Kitchen!

Full-Time or Part-Time | Permanent Position

Are you passionate about creating mouth-watering, high-quality pastries? Do you thrive in a fast-paced kitchen and love delivering exceptional desserts? We want YOU to join our refurbished Greenhouse Kitchen within the stunning Blackdown Garden Centre!

Why Blue Diamond?

  • No evenings or split shifts! Enjoy a better work-life balance with our daytime hours.
  • Attractive salary & opportunities for career growth.
  • A chance to work with a passionate, friendly team in a beautifully renovated space.

What We’re Looking For:

  • A talented Junior Pastry Chef with a strong eye for detail, able to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • A genuine passion for creating beautiful, high-quality desserts that delight customers.
  • A dedicated team player with a drive to succeed and a positive attitude.
  • Experience working in high-volume kitchens, with the ability to manage stock, reduce waste, and maintain budget controls.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Create consistent, high-quality pastry products.
  • Deliver exceptional customer service.
  • Assist in stock management, minimize wastage, and work within departmental budgets.

About You:

  • Excellent attention to detail and a passion for pastry artistry.
  • Ability to work independently in a busy, fast-paced environment.
  • A strong understanding of health and safety regulations, as well as food hygiene standards.
  • A team player with a positive and cooperative attitude.

Why Blue Diamond?
We’re a growing company with a big heart, and we’re on the lookout for passionate people eager to learn and grow with us. If you have the skills, the passion, and the energy to thrive, we’d love to hear from you!

Salary: Competitive, based on experience and skills.

Ready to take the next step in your pastry career? Apply today to join our vibrant team at The Greenhouse Kitchen!

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Job Type: Full-time / Part-time

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Blackdown_Pastry

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Blackdown_Pastry

Maison estelle

Pastry Chef

10/01/2025
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Job Description

Job Ref: MAI2650

Branch:
Maison Estelle

Location:
Maison Estelle – London

Salary/Benefits:
Competitive salary and benefits, inclusion in tronc scheme

Contract type:
Permanent

Hours:
Full Time

Hours per week:
48 hours per week

Posted date:
10/01/2025

Closing date:
02/03/2025

Maison Estelle is a private club set in a Grade I-listed Georgian townhouse on Grafton Street, Mayfair. A ‘hosted home’, bringing people together that have plenty to say and nothing to prove. A new school club (no rules), with old school values of personalised service and discretion.

Work in an environment where you can bring your whole self to work, where you’re empowered to be the very best you can be. Our values are at the core of everything we do and every decision we make. We have four pillars (HOST): humble, own it, spirited and togetherness. These pillars influence every experience that we deliver, both for our members and with each other.

Our Pastry Chef is responsible for operating the pastry section of the kitchen. You will be responsible for creating a wide variety of high-quality pastry and dessert items with our recipes ensuring high quality standards and consistency of our products. You will also assist in ensuring par stocks of pastry and desserts and proper rotation of products and maintain the highest cleanliness and hygiene standards within the pastry and bakery sections.


BENEFITS

  • WSET qualifications
  • 28 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (increasing with length of service), pension and life assurance.
  • Inclusion in the Tronc scheme.
  • A health cash plan to claim money back and get access to lots of ways to support your physical mental wellbeing.
  • Goes without saying, but we will feed you during your shift.
  • Lots of opportunity to develop your skills and progress internally.
  • Regular team get togethers, from regular team drinks to bi-annual parties.
  • Opportunities to join one of our committees and influence how we do things, how we socialise and how we support the local community.
  • Great incentives and reward programmes including recommend a friend bonuses, employee of the month and much more.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The key responsibilities for this role will include but are not limited to:

  • Working in the pastry section of the Kitchen preparing a wide variety of goods such as cakes, cookies, pies, bread etc. following our recipes.
  • Decorating pastries using different icings, toppings etc. to ensure the presentation will be modern, beautiful, exciting and appetising.
  • Working and assisting across all food sections in the kitchen, as required.
  • Ensuring the highest possible standard of presentation cleanliness in all areas of the kitchen, both in the kitchen itself and back of house areas.
  • Training/coaching other members of Kitchen Team in pastry.
  • Being responsible for effective stock control within the Pastry section and to control and record all wastage.
  • Complying with procedures to ensure all Health and Safety and Food Hygiene requirements are compliant with current legislation and to ensure temperature records and food labelling are recorded and up to date.
  • Keeping all HS and Food safety documentation and reporting up to date in line with our food safety management system.
  • Assisting the BOH Manager in ensuring the kitchen equipment is properly maintained and report any faults with equipment to him.
  • Continually improving service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand and anticipate member needs.
  • Attending Culinary and club-wide meetings.
  • Suggesting changes or improvements to increase accuracy, efficiency, cost reductions and to improve member’s experience.
  • Having good communication skills and proficiently liaising with all departments on an ongoing basis; close relationships with front of house operational teams.

PERSONAL PROFILE

  • Proven experience working in a Kitchen department in a luxury / lifestyle multi-outlet food and beverage operation.
  • Stays up to date with current food trends and best practices.
  • Must be able to work flexibly including evenings and weekends due to the operational hours of the club.
  • Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking to colleagues, senior management and coming front of house to talk to members.
  • A genuine passion for hospitality and hosting.

Kipling cadbury

Pastry Chef

03/01/2025
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Job Description

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic Pastry Chef to work within our Restaurant here at our Melbicks Garden Centre.

As the Pastry Chef, we would love you to have experience in a similar environment, with some knowledge in pastry products. The successful Chef must be self-motivated, quality driven and keen to learn and develop.

Salary will be dependent of experience, but you can expect your role to be varied and rewarding. There are great opportunities to develop and progress your career.

Hours of work will be based on a 40 hour week working 5 days out of 7, day shift only and no splits.

Roles & Responsibilities:

· To help in delivering a consistent product of a high standard for the pastry department

· To provide our customers with exceptional customer service

· To assist kitchen in controlling stock, minimising wastage and working within the budget provided for the department

If you think that you fit this description and would like to join our friendly team, we would love to hear from you.

We are a growing company with a big heart. We are looking for passionate people with a thirst for knowledge who strive to be the best they can be.

  • Excellent attention to detail
  • The ability to work unsupervised in a busy environment
  • Health and Safety regulations awareness as well as knowledge of hygiene
  • Positive attitude to work and cooperate closely with other team members

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Melbicks Pastry

Manna dew

Pastry Chef

24/12/2024
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£12 - £16 / hour

Job Description

Manna Dew Bakery is excited to announce an opening for a senior Pastry Chef role in our 100% gluten free specialty bakery.

About Manna Dew:

Manna Dew Bakery is the UK’s Top Rated Gluten-Free Bakery and one of the only producers of real-textured gluten-free pastry globally.

Standards of Operation:

Our operation is currently operating on the SALSA food safety standard, with transparent end-to-end manufacturing systems.

About the Role:

We are looking for. a passionate, experienced pastry chef who has a love for Viennoisserie. You. must have previous experience with Viennoisserie. As a texture-focused bakery, R&D drives everything we do. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our products.

As senior pastry chef your duties will be to carry out and oversee all aspects of production.

Requirements:

-Must have previous Viennoisserie experience (lamination)

-Minimum 3 year experience working in bakery

-Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate or above

-Knowledge of SALSA (preferred)

-Knowledge of gluten-free and vegan baking

Duties:

As our Master of Baking and Mixes your role will be focused around proofing, filling, egg washing, baking, sorting, packing, and dispatching our goods every day.

Knowledge of scratch baking, and the ability to produce consistently and timely are key aspects of this role. Most of the control metrics are qualititative which means you must have a high attention to detail.

Specifics:

-Ability to follow recipes

-Ability to handle heavy equipment

-Ability to scale, laminate, proof, egg wash, sort, and pack

-Abilit to work effectively in teams and handle high pressure environments

Hours: 7am-530pm

Days: 5 Days including Saturday and Sunday

ROTA: Min 40 Hours per week

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £12.00-£16.00 per hour

Additional pay:

  • Bonus scheme
  • Performance bonus

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • Sick pay

Schedule:

  • 10 hour shift
  • 12 hour shift
  • 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Wandsworth: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

  • Baking: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

  • Level 2 Food Safety Certificate (required)

Work Location: In person