Team Leader - Bakery

Posted on 07/09/2026

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Westmorland Kitchen
Catering
£15.35 per hour
38.75 hours per week
Full Time

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Team Leader - Bakery

About The Role
We are looking for a hands-on Service Leader to support the Bakery Manager and take a lead role in our bread production. This is an important position within the bakery team, helping to ensure our breads and bakery products are made to a consistently high standard, production runs smoothly, and customers receive fresh, high-quality products every day.

Main responsibilities

Take the lead in day-to-day bread production, ensuring products are made to agreed standards, schedules and customer demand.

Support the Bakery Manager with the smooth running of the bakery and step up to lead the department when required.

Lead bakery shifts, supervise colleagues and help create a positive, productive working environment.

Produce a range of high-quality bakery items, including breads, cakes, biscuits, traybakes and pastries.

Maintain excellent standards of food quality, presentation, consistency, cleanliness and customer service.

Follow production plans and help improve productivity, efficiency and quality across the bakery.

Uphold food safety, hygiene, HACCP and health and safety standards, including completing required checks and documentation.

Train, coach and support new and existing team members, including through induction and ongoing development.

Work collaboratively with the wider bakery team and attend planning meetings when needed.
About You
The right candidate will be confident in bread production and comfortable taking responsibility for both the quality of the products and the performance of the team. You will be someone who leads by example, stays organised under pressure and is passionate about producing fresh, high-quality bakery goods.

A good working understanding of the breadmaking process.

Previous experience in a bakery, food production or hospitality environment.

Leadership or supervisory experience, with the ability to motivate and support a team.

Strong knowledge of food safety, HACCP and hygiene procedures.

Excellent organisation and time-management skills, with the ability to meet production deadlines.

A hands-on, flexible approach and willingness to work alongside the team.

Good communication and teamwork skills.

Attention to detail and a commitment to high standards.

Flexibility to work weekends and shift patterns.
About Us
At Westmorland we are family business that started in 1972 from our farm in Cumbria, which runs unique motorway service areas – Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge – based on no franchises but instead our own Farmshops and Kitchens. We also have Junction 38, a services dedicated to HGV drivers, Rheged, a meeting place, Cafe, Gallery and Cinema, and the Westmorland Hotel situated on the edge of the Lake District.

We are proud to be connected to our place and that our family of colleagues share our values of Warmth, Graft and Courage. If you join our family it will be hard work at times but we offer a great range of benefits including generous discounts in our farmshops and kitchens, free meals when working on shift, generous holiday entitlements plus a paid day off for your birthday and more.