APPLICATIONS OPEN
Head Baker
We are looking for someone to take responsibility for the bakery team and guide the Senior Baker with leading the day-to-day running and production. This role is particularly focused on maximising your team’s potential, higher-volume production channels (e.g. corporate orders, e-commerce sales) and ensuring delivery of our fresh bread and cakes to the highest standards. Therefore we need someone with the organisational skills to oversee large numbers of orders, competing deadlines and high volumes of production whilst paying close attention to intricate details.
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Bread & Pastry Baker
An exciting new role at Luminary to develop our bread & pastry offering from quick breads including soda bread and seasonal foccacia, to sourdough loaves, croissants & pastries! Full & Part Time positions available - come and join a team that loves baking to make the world a better place.
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Customer Service
We are looking for someone part-time to help with customer service at Luminary; a pivotal team member looking after the daily operations of all customer interactions and logistics.
This person will often be the first interaction someone may have with Luminary and will be responsible for creating a positive experience for every customer.
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Production Baker
Join our team creating London's best loved celebration cakes, traybakes, cookies & pastries for our cafes & customers all across the UK via our online store! We are a small but mighty team using baking to make the world a better place.
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Progression Support Worker - Maternity Cover
The purpose of this role is to join our Progression Support team, providing specialist support for women who have experienced multiple disadvantages. Empowering them to move towards independence, employment and fulfil their potential. Initally as a maternity cover, this post is initially for nine months, with the possibility of extension.
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Luminary Charity Roles
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Women's Involvement Champion
Luminary wants to see women’s voices at the heart of our organisation - we want our growth and development to be guided by the advice and recommendations of women in the Luminary network. This role exists to champion women’s involvement in the decision making and direction of Luminary. For this reason, this role is exclusively open to Luminary trainees, graduates or alumni - we’re looking for an Involvement Champion
to inspire others in the Luminary network to use their voice for change!
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Progression Support Worker
Join us in changing the world with and for women by joining our team as a Progression Support Worker!
Providing specialist support for women who have experienced multiple disadvantages, empowering them to move towards independence, employment and fulfil their potential. Our progression support workers play a huge role in our work at Luminary.
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Luminary Mentor
Mentors are paired with one of our graduates, who is looking to start her career. The aim is to give individual guidance with venturing into the working world or entrepreneurship and an inspirational role model to ask the right questions / support them along the way.
We expect mentors to connect with their mentees for a minimum of 1x hour a month and a maximum of 3x hours a month, for 6 months duration.
Bakery roles
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Packaging Lead
This is a brand new role for Luminary, after the rapid growth of our online store and demand from corporate clients. This role will support the bakery and production teams with the packaging of high volumes of e-commerce orders going out for delivery via DPD on a daily basis.
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Senior Artisan Baker
We are looking for somebody who loves the creativity and challenge of creating high-end, artisanal Wedding and Celebration Cakes and is looking for a way to develop their skills further through greater product and line management responsibilities. This role will be part of a fast-growing bakery and production team, so we are looking for people who are keen to be team-players and help build a happy and flourishing culture of work. If you are someone who would love to apply your technical skills and expertise and contribute to the Luminary mission in doing so, we would love to hear from you!
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Head Baker (Production)
Joining the Luminary team as Head Baker for one of our bakery sites is a fantastic opportunity for somebody who is passionate about the positive impact that baking can have and who wants to be part of a dynamic business that is having a tangible impact on women’s lives. As the business enters into an exciting chapter of growth, we are looking for someone ready for the challenge of growing the bakery team, fulfilling high-profile orders for our corporate and consumer clients, supplying the Luminary cafe business and overseeing the quality and excellence of all Luminary Bakery products from that site.
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Head Baker
Joining the Luminary team as Head Baker is a fantastic opportunity for somebody who is passionate about the positive impact that baking can have and who wants to be part of a dynamic business that is having a tangible impact on women’s lives.
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Bakery Roles
Vacancies as: Artisan Baker, Weekend Artisan Bakery and Cover Bakers.
Joining the Luminary team is a fantastic opportunity for anyone who is passionate about the positive impact that baking can have, and who wants to be part of an exciting, growing business that is having a tangible impact on women’s lives.
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Head Office Roles
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Weekend Customer Administrator
We are looking for an experienced customer service administrator who will ensure the smooth running of weekend operations & be the first port of call for all incoming enquiries. This person will be the first interaction someone may have with Luminary, including wedding customers receiving the most important cake of their lives!
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Operations Associate
The role is varied & dynamic and we are looking for an all-rounder who doesn’t mind getting their hands dirty in true start-up style, stays calm under pressure and thrives off managing multiple things at once. If you love problem solving, organisation, systems and want to work somewhere that has a purpose, this role could be for you.
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Head of Operations
We are recruiting for this NEW senior position to take on responsibility for all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the business: from our front of house services to production, facilities management and everything in between. This leadership role will be integral to the ongoing growth and success of Luminary Bakery. Could this be you?
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Cafe Roles
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Barista Roles
We are looking for a confident and friendly individual who is willing to go the extra mile in customer service and in assisting our Baristas and Supervisors on shift at either of our locations. We’re looking for someone who learns the everyday running of our cafe and who can bring a positive energy and can-do attitude to the role and the wider team!
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WORKING AT LUMINARY
We are committed to building a diverse team, and seek to be representative of those we are supporting, so we would especially like to hear from from applicants who are from racially minoritised groups in the UK
THE LUMINARY MISSION
To empower the UK’s most disadvantaged women to gain employment and independence through training, support and community, using baking as a tool.
- Providing exceptional training & support programmes that afford women with the tools she needs to change her future.
- Offering opportunities into the ‘world of work’ by being an understanding and empowering employer and acting as a bridge for a woman to start her career.
- Producing beautiful, artisanal baked goods that make a difference & tell a story.
- Creating welcoming, community cafes with excellent quality products that engage the wider community by enabling them to ‘purchase with purpose’.
LUMINARY VALUES
- AUTHENTICITY - We are real, honest, transparent & we embrace vulnerability
- COMMITMENT - We are fully behind our vision, trustworthy, responsible & have a strong work ethic to ensure we have a positive impact on the world
- COMMUNITY - All are welcome at Luminary, we care for eachother & we are all about teamwork
- EMPATHY - We listen, get alongside others and provide a supportive environment
- EMPOWERING - We nurture worth in people to release them into a positive future, equipping them with the skills to achieve it
- EQUALITY - We believe that all people are created valuable and have potential no matter what their past or current circumstances.
- FAITH - Our driving force, it influences our behaviour & reminds us that anything is possible
- FUN - We have a culture of laughter, lightheartedness & inclusion
- REPUTATION - We stand for quality & excellence in every way and seek to be an example to others on ethical business
We are Luminary Bakery, an award winning London Social Enterprise Bakery that helps to create jobs, community and support women who have experienced social disadvantage, such as gender-based violence, poverty or criminal activity. We use baking as a tool to take women on a journey to employability and entrepreneurship, equipping them with transferable skills for the working world. We offer courses, work experience and paid employment within our bakery, empowering women to build their career. Our social enterprise business runs bakeries and cafes in both Hackney and Camden. We are an ambitious and driven team, with a desire to create as many employment opportunities for women as we can - Read more here.