Pastry Chef – Maternity Cover
Job Type : Contract, Full Time
Salary : £23500/annum
Pastry Chef – Maternity Cover
Location: Wash Barn, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Salary: £23,500 per annum plus tronc
Hours of work: 40 hours across five days per week, preferred days would be Tuesday to Saturday (can be flexible), daytime only
Contract: One year fixed-term contract
Why Riverford?
Every week, Riverford delivers organic food to around 90,000 homes and businesses across the UK. This takes loads of brilliant people, from growers to IT experts, and more besides!
We’re a friendly, forward-thinking bunch, and our three core values – Stronger Together, Do Things Well and Independence – run through everything we do. We celebrate diversity, valuing, supporting and developing the whole person as an equal opportunities’ employer.
In 2018, Riverford became employee owned. Working here makes you a ‘co-owner’, our way of saying ‘employee’. It’s not just a name – every co-owner can play a part in shaping Riverford. Success means much more than just profits; we want this to be a place people enjoy coming to work, and a business our co-owners feel proud of. In 2021, we were delighted to be awarded two-star Best Companies accreditation, recognising Riverford as an ‘outstanding’ place to work.
We’re also proud to be a B Corp – a certification for ethical businesses who work not just for profit, but also to benefit people and the planet.
What you’ll be doing
This role at our award-winning farm restaurant, The Riverford Field Kitchen, is a great opportunity for a chef who has a passion for quality ingredients. You’ll work with ethically sourced, 100% organic produce, including fruit and veg straight from our fields.
Our dessert offer is the icing on the cake of our set menu and is the only part of the meal that guests aren’t required to share! The ideal pastry chef will be able to bake plenty of our organic veg, as well as fruit, herbs and foraged ingredients from the farm into your desserts and showcase a variety of imaginative uses of our produce. With the rise in specific dietary requirements, an ability to create unique gluten free and vegan desserts would also be very useful.
You will use the experience you have already gained in a professional kitchen to provide support to the kitchen team – preparing food, cooking dishes which fit with the Field Kitchen style of cooking, as well as mucking in to make sure the kitchen area remains clean and compliant with health and safety and hygiene. You may be cooking outside of the pastry section too – but not much. We go through a lot of pudding!
The kitchen area is open to our customers, so we’re really looking for chefs who are bright, personable, and happy to talk to our customers about the food they’ve eaten.
A typical day for a Riverford chef…
We write our menus every day to showcase the best seasonal produce coming in fresh from the farm.
The chefs pick most fresh herbs and some of Riverford’s more experimental crops from The Field Kitchen Garden – our polytunnel and allotment area 50m from the kitchen – and the herb beds surrounding the restaurant.
Although we’re mad about veg, our guests still look forward to our amazing choice of desserts to round off their dining experience. The dessert menu is forever changing, dependent on the ingredients coming off the farm. There’s a lot of opportunity to explore your creative flair, working with the Head Chef to write and design a menu of 5-7 desserts each day. The service only lasts around 30 minutes, leaving the rest of the day to bake! Be prepared to share your recipes with a lot of people…
Most of the year, we only open the restaurant doors 5 days per week, Wednesday to Sunday (in the school holidays we open Monday and Tuesday lunches too), allowing our team days to explore other areas of the business and learn new skills:
– We work in the kitchen garden, so our chefs can better appreciate the work that goes into our beautiful produce
– We help develop recipes and film content for Riverford’s social media and marketing
channels
– We cater for a local food charity one day per week to help our local community
– Riverford offers lots of training and development programmes for personal growth
– We’re developing a programme of stages for our team during low season
Your responsibilities
– Maintaining the standard and style of cooking set by the Head Chef
– Sourcing ingredients from the farm and liaising with external suppliers
– Dessert & other food preparation
– Serving directly to and interacting with customers
– General cleaning and washing up
– Any other duties as required
Skills & experience
– Professional and catering experience in a similar establishment is essential
– Food Hygiene and/or professional cookery qualification desirable
– A genuine passion and interest for food and cooking with fresh, seasonal ingredients
Personal qualities
– Works well under pressure
– Bright and personable with good customer service skills
– Enjoys working as part of a team
– Flexible and adaptable
Co-owner benefits
Riverford is a beautiful place to work, with lots of great people – and other benefits too.
– 33 days’ holiday pro rata (including Bank Holidays)
– Generous company pension scheme
– Annual profit share; 10% of all our profits are split equally between all co-owners
– 25% off everything we sell
– Heavily discounted organic breakfasts and lunches, home-cooked by our canteen chefs, at our two biggest sites
– Free organic fruit and veg!
– Enhanced maternity / paternity pay (plus six months of free veg boxes)
– An annual allowance to spend on Riverford branded clothing
– Lots of free co-owner events, including two massive parties a year
– Flexible working options
– Life assurance cover
For a full job description and to learn more about Riverford Organics, please select the apply button and take a look at our website.
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