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Kitchen Assistant
Weekend Cake-a-Tier and Dessert Chef – Kitchen Assistant Location: Robins Farm (Swindon) – Reference: 05212
About Farmhouse Inns
Join Farmhouse Inns, where we take pride in crafting high-quality food through dedicated, hands-on preparation. From slow-roasting meats for 14 hours, fluffing handmade Yorkies, crisping perfectly roasted potatoes, to baking and hand-decorating giant cakes—every detail is fresh and made with passion in our kitchens.
About the Role
Are you a Kitchen Assistant with a flair for baking, compassion formake-ahead desserts, and an eagerness to thrive in a fast-paced environment? This weekend role ensures our kitchen runs seamlessly during peak service, helping the team and customers.
As our Cake-a-Tier and Dessert Chef, your responsibilities will include:
- Stocking, cleaning, and prepping: Restocking ingredients, maintaining hygiene, and ensuring the kitchen and team are always ready for action.
- Supporting the team: Providing clarity, preparing desserts, and helping the culinary team meet our high standards.
- Upholding safety: Ensuring our kitchen adheres to strict health, safety, and food hygiene regulations to keep both staff and guests safe.
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Your Responsibilities
You’ll be pivotal in ensuring that: ✔ Our dessert menus are perfectly executed and ready for guests. ✔ The kitchen is well-organized, hygienic, and efficient. ✔ Your team has everything they need to deliver excellence. ✔ Safety protocols are consistently followed, minimising risks in our workspace.
What You’ll Need
No bakery experience required—but you’ll bring enormous heart, adaptability, and a desire to succeed. While prior culinary or dessert-making skills are helpful, our training will equip you!
Equipment:
🍰 A clearly positive mindset and teamwork skills—your colleagues will thrive with your support. 🚀 A passion for challenges, ability to handle pressure, and enthusiasm for a hustling, high-demand kitchen role. 📚 Willingness to learn and expand. Training and development are always available.
About Working With Us
Hard work deserves well-deserved rewards. We invest in our team because you deserve it:
💵 Competitive salary 🏛️ Pension contributions 👨👩👧👦 Family-friendly maternity & paternity policies – our team matters.
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🌟 401(k) Training & Development Guidelines: As one of the industry’s top apprenticeship providers, we offer on-going professional support and career growth opportunities across farmhouse brands and others.
🏆 Discounts Everywhere: 🍻 33% off for you, 15% for loved ones on all grain/sFB&D brands. 🍳 50% off for you and 25% for relatives on our Greene King inns & hotels—so those weekend away dreams stay financially doable.
🔄 Employee Assistance Program included: Access mental health, financial, and legal support—because happy hearts matter.
🎁 Refer your friends: Help us find the next talent, and you earn up to £1,500 for every hire who accepts and join.
⚡ Wagestream access for your compensation—because unexpected curves are just life, and so should be welcoming!
🛍️ Retail Perks available: Up 30% off Superdrug, mobile discounts with Three, exclusive deals, and you gain so many omnis experience.
🦉 Menopause Support, we’re a Menopause Friendly Employer, and looking forward to ensure you are best supported!
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