Head Pastry Chef

Join Our Team as a Lead Pastry Chef at Guillam Coffee House

Are you passionate about creating exceptional pastries, artisan breads, cakes, and desserts from scratch? Do you enjoy leading a team while maintaining the highest standards of quality and consistency? If so, we would love to welcome you to our brand-new café in the heart of St. James.

As our Lead Pastry Chef, you will oversee the daily production of all bakery and pastry items in a dedicated production kitchen with no service, allowing you to focus on crafting outstanding products in a well-organised and professional environment. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the pastry and bakery offering of our newest location while mentoring and developing a small production team.

• Leading the daily production of artisan breads, pastries, cakes, desserts, and other bakery products.
• Planning production schedules to ensure products are prepared efficiently and meet daily business demand.
• Maintaining excellent mise en place and ensuring consistency across every batch produced.
• Preparing products to the highest quality standards by following recipes accurately and supporting standardised
• production processes.
• Checking all products before dispatch to ensure quality, presentation, and consistency.
• Monitoring food costs, stock rotation (FIFO), yields, and minimizing waste.
• Assisting with stock ordering, inventory management, and maintaining accurate recipe documentation.
• Supervising, training, and mentoring junior members of the pastry team.
• Maintaining a clean, organised, and efficient production kitchen.
• Ensuring full compliance with food safety, HACCP, and health & safety regulations.
• Liaise with other departments and sites, escalating any issues to senior management when required.

• Previous experience as a Lead Pastry Chef, Senior Pastry Chef, or similar supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of artisan bread, pastry, cake, and dessert production.
• Experience leading, training, and developing junior team members.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Strong attention to detail with a passion for quality and consistency.
• Good understanding of food safety, HACCP, stock control, and cost management.
• The ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced production environment.
• A positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced production environment.

• Full-time position:
  Up to 48 hours per week.
• Salary: £30,000 – £34,000 per annum, plus service charge (Tronc), depending on experience.
• No service – dedicated production role.
• The opportunity to help shape the pastry and bakery offering of a brand-new café.
• Career development opportunities within a growing business.
• Supportive and collaborative working environment.