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Working at Tesco Retail

  • Company employees
    330,000+
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    49:51

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  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

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Join Tesco as a Trainee Baker at the Inverness Inshs Extra store. This part-time role offers a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours per week (with options down to 12 hours) with a starting salary of £12.45 per hour. You will be responsible for baking fresh scratch products, maintaining food safety, and delivering great customer service.

Requirements

  • Must be over 18 years of age due to early morning working hours and bakery machinery operation.
  • No formal educational requirements or prior baking experience stated.
  • Must be available to work within the specified weekly availability windows.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Customer Service: Greet shoppers warmly and serve them with pride to ensure a great shopping trip.
  • Baking & Quality Control: Bake in waves for scratch products to ensure freshness throughout the day while minimizing waste and adhering to yield guidelines.
  • Food Safety: Strictly adhere to all food hygiene, safety, and allergen guidelines at all times.
  • Equipment Safety: Proactively check emergency stop buttons and machinery safety before operation.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail, hospitality, or customer service roles may bring strong communication and teamwork skills, alongside meeting the age and availability requirements.

Job description

Availability Window

Days From time To time Sun 06:00:00 17:00:00 Mon 06:00:00 18:00:00 Tue 06:00:00 17:00:00 Wed 06:00:00 17:00:00

Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from �12.45 an hour. Additional payments may also apply depending on location and skills.

It�s our policy to offer new colleagues joining us a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but if you�d like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12) we have opportunities for this too and would still love to hear from you.

The table shows the periods of time in the week we�d like you to be available to work - the availability windows. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you�ll have 3 weeks� notice of exactly when your shifts will be. We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues, therefore if the times you are available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, we�d still love to hear from you. Click here to read more.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do.

It takes lots of different people to run a store and this is a job for doers, with plenty of variety. It�s a committed role, full of everyday challenges, but that�s one of the things that makes it so exciting.

  • Being a colleague in one of our stores means that you will help to serve our shoppers better every day.
  • You�ll meet great people, learn new things and be part of a specialist, diverse team where everyone is welcome.
  • Whether you are looking for stability or flexibility to suit your lifestyle, or the opportunity to progress your career, this can be the role for you.

PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST BE OVER 18 TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE.

  • Knowing your customers and serving them with passion and pride; giving great natural service.

  • Baking in waves for scratch products so customers receive fresh products throughout the day, minimising waste and ensuring yield is being adhered to for great quality.

  • Handling products with care to maintain quality and ensure they reach customers in the best condition.

  • Adhering to all food hygiene, safety and allergen guidelines at all times

  • Passionate and knowledgeable about the products and services within my department and my store

  • Putting into practice the training you have received, so we all work safely, effectively and serve our customers brilliantly.

  • Proactively checking the emergency stop buttons are working and all machinery is safe to use before operation, in line with safe and legal checks/training. Report any next steps to the Shift Leader/Team Manager.

  • Disposing of waste in a responsible manner, including following food waste and recycling routines.

  • Being knowledgeable about your store�s performance, understanding the part you play and what we need to do together to drive service and sales, reduce waste and shrink and deliver profit.

  • Being yourself, living our values, making everyone feel welcome and always following our policies.

  • Working across the store in our service, picking and replenishment areas where required.

  • A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride

  • The ability to build rapport with customers, meaning they leave the store having experienced a great shopping trip

  • To take the initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers

  • Be able to work independently and well within a team and communicate openly with others

  • Build relationships with colleagues to create a team spirit, having fun and celebrating success

  • Be at work on time, well presented and ready to be a brand ambassador

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is �Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day�. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.�

�Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we are a place where Everyone�s Welcome.

�We know life looks a little different for each of us. That�s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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We are proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click�here.

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Please note

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver�s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here�

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines and spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com

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Tesco Retail

Tesco Colleague - Trainee Baker - Inverness Inshs Extra

Inverness
On-site
£12.45 per hour

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