CAREERS
We’re a growing food business in the heart of the community we serve, and we are looking to grow our team. Come and join us in sharing our love of all things food, drink and conviviality.
Blake’s Kitchen is a bakery, café & food store in the small Cotswold village of Clanfield. We are passionate about serving great quality food and drink to our customers. We focus on exceptional coffee, fresh in-house made bread & cakes, interesting salads and tasty sandwiches and snacks. We embrace freshness of ingredients, and love to use local artisan suppliers.
In 2020 we opened a second Blake’s Kitchen at Soho Farmhouse in Great Tew. In November 2023 we opened Blake’s Kitchen at The Buscot & Coleshill Estate.
If you are passionate about food & drink, and enjoying it with people, we would love to hear from you.
Let us know if you have experience; but attitude and mindset are more important to us. Positive, friendly, genuine, attention to detail and team & customer focus are characteristics that will definitely impress us.
CURRENT
VACANCIES
Baker- Part time, Full Time
Blake’s Bakery & Kitchen, Witney
We are looking for a Bread Baker to join our growing bakery-café baking real bread, cakes and pastries, including our award winning sourdough.
As a Bread Baker you will be baking, mixing and shaping consistently excellent products to sell in our café shops, to supply our wholesale customers, and for our chefs to produce outstanding sandwiches and breakfasts with.
Absolutely everything in our kitchen and bakery is made by us, by hand, freshly every day, on site. We are obsessive about quality.
We welcome applications from a range of bakery experience including enthusiastic home-bakers looking to change career. Experience is helpful, but more important to us is a willingness to learn, passion for all things bread and cake and a keen eye for detail. This role is physically demanding, but incredibly rewarding.
We are on the cusp of moving to a new bakery which suits the ever increasing demand for our products. This will provide great development opportunities for the successful candidates and the opportunity to work in a brand new environment and be instrumental in helping to shape the future of the company. As well as these career development opportunities you will be trained and learn from highly experienced bakers.
We are looking for someone to invest in as part of our bakery team so are on the lookout for candidates with the right attitude first and foremost.
Our bakery operates 7 days per week from early morning, and will include some weekend days. In our current bakery we usually start at 4am, due to our imminent expansion there will be scope for alternative shift patterns in the coming months.
In return we can offer competitive pay and support with ongoing professional development, access to an external Employee Advice Programme, free lunch on shift, staff discount scheme, career progression opportunities and to be part of a friendly team in a family run business.
Contact mike@blakeskitchen.com for any further information and to apply.
Our Values
Obsessive about quality
Passionate about what we do
Respect each other, customers and the products we work with
Striving to be experts in our craft
BENEFITS
Competitive salary
Access for you and your immediate family to an externally provided Employee Advice Programme. The service helps employees deal with personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health and wellbeing. This would include assessment, short-term counselling and referral services for employees and their immediate family
Staff uniforms provided
Free staff lunches when working a shift that would generate a break entitlement
Employee discount scheme
Working with great quality ingredients and products
Support with professional development, examples include; basic & advanced food hygiene qualifications, first aid, fire marshal training, SCA barista training, line management training
Access to an industry leading online learning platform
Career progression opportunities in a growing business
We don’t open for customers on Christmas Day or Boxing Day
Bespoke management coaching & 12 month supervisor leadership development programme
Natasha
Started as Customer Service Advisor
Progressed to Front of House Manager, then Head Baker
Now General Manager of Coleshill Café