Bread Baker [Bakery]

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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Job Title: <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bread Baker</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Reports to:</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> Head Baker</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Work Locations:</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> Hackney Downs E8, Stoke Newington N16 (and other locations as required by business needs)</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Hours: </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">40 hours per week, predominantly Wednesday-Sunday</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Salary:  </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">£14.00 per hour</span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Employed by:</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> Luminary Bakery Ltd</span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">What We’re Looking For</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We’re looking for a passionate and ambitious bread baker who wants to take ownership of a growing and exciting category within Luminary Bakery.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">You’ll bring strong technical skills, calm leadership, commercial awareness, and genuine care for quality. Most importantly, you’ll be excited by the opportunity to help build something meaningful, using exceptional baking as a tool for impact, community, and empowerment.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Why Work With Us?</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Luminary Bakery is a social enterprise using baking as a tool to empower women and build community. By joining our team, you’ll be part of something bigger than bread – you’ll be helping us grow a sustainable business that creates opportunities for women who’ve experienced social and economic disadvantage.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Alongside baking with purpose, we offer:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Free barista coffee when working on site at Stoke Newington cafe</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">50% discount off all Luminary food &amp; drink when working on site at Stoke Newington cafe (plus family &amp; friends discount)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">20% off online purchases (celebration cakes &amp; merchandise)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Regular training and professional development opportunities</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Opportunities to be involved in press coverage of Luminary</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Long-service rewards (including vouchers, merch, extra holiday, and of course, free cake!)</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Job Purpose</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We have successfully launched and grown our in-house artisan bread range, including sourdough offerings, baguettes, and seasonal bread products across our cafés, wholesale, and corporate channels.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The Bread Baker will take ownership of this category: maintaining and improving the current bread range, ensuring excellent consistency and quality, leading future product development, and embedding strong bread knowledge across the wider bakery team.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">This role is ideal for someone who is both technically skilled and operationally strong, a baker who thrives on consistency, fermentation, production planning, and team development, while continuing to innovate and grow the bread offering commercially.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">You will play a key role in ensuring bread production is scalable, profitable, and aligned with Luminary’s wider mission and growth plans.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Bread Production &amp; Innovation</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Take full ownership of Luminary’s artisan bread range, with a particular focus on sourdough production.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Produce and oversee daily bread production to the highest standards of consistency, flavour, and presentation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Maintain and nurture sourdough starters, monitoring health, fermentation and quality and making adjustments as required.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Continuously review and improve recipes, processes, and production methods to support quality and scalability. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Innovate with recipes and techniques, creating seasonal and diverse bread products suitable for our cafés, wholesale customers, and corporate catering.</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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