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Knead & Desire Bakehouse
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Posted: 9 Sep 2025
Deadline: 23 Oct 2025
Compensation: £22,500 pro rata
Paid Part-time Permanent
Job description
This is an opportunity to join the award-winning Knead & Desire team and to use your enthusiasm and skills to help us shape the shop as the business grows and develops.
Based in our shop in the centre of Hitchin.
We are looking for a someone with an outgoing personality, bags of enthusiasm and energy, great customer service skills, a love for good food, organic and local and a passion for doing things fantastically.
Ideally you already have excellent barista skills, be brilliant working as part of a team, dealing with members of the public and to be willing to get stuck into all aspects of the shop service. A strong work ethic is key.
The Bakehouse has ambitious growth plans and for the right person there is scope to increase days / hours as well as future opportunities to train and work across other areas of the Bakehouse.
In return we offer competitive rates of pay, staff pension, 20 days holidays (pro-rata), free hot drinks and a discount when not at work.
Part time - Friday and Saturday 7.30 to 3.30 (with scope for additional hours and days).
Application information
If you think you fit the bill and the opportunity sparks your enthusiasm, please drop an email to Matthew at info@kneadanddesire.co.uk with a CV telling us a little bit about yourself and why you'd like to join the Knead & Desire team.
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About Knead & Desire Bakehouse
Knead & Desire Bakehouse is a small batch bakery making handcrafted organic sourdough bread and pastries. We started on a farm in September 2021 and have been growing quickly, delivering direct to customers, wholesale to restaurants and hotels, weekend farmers markets and running sourdough courses. We also won six awards at the last World Bread Awards. Building a local organic supply base, a superb quality of product and an engaged and friendly service are fundamental to our success. Our next step is to grow the retail side to the business and we are in the process of moving the whole business to a new shop and bakery in the centre of Hitchin. Opening in mid September.
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