Assistant Kitchen Manager

Away Resorts Ltd; St. Ives; On-site; GBP 28,595 - 34,950; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on Away Resorts holidays

On-park discounts

Team incentives

Holiday buy scheme

Life insurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Wellbeing support — Help @ Hand

Career development

Job summary

Away Resorts Ltd is hiring a Kitchen Manager for the St Ives Bay Beach Resort, Cornwall. This is a permanent contract with options for part-time or full-time work. You will lead the kitchen team to deliver high-quality meals, maintain standards and uphold health and safety practices.

Responsibilities include supervising food preparation, managing stock and payroll, and ensuring compliance with regulations while maintaining excellent guest experiences. Competitive benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Dynamic, determined and enthusiastic; thrives on guest experiences.
• Ability to manage workload during busy periods.
• Build commercial awareness and work in a commercial environment.
• Familiar with health & safety regulations, audits and compliance.
• Strong leadership to develop high performing kitchen teams.
• NVQ and relevant food hygiene certificates are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assist Kitchen Manager in leading and inspiring the kitchen team.
• Oversee food preparation to meet high standards.
• Plan orders, manage stock and reduce wastage.
• Tackle problems or defects promptly and effectively.
• Train and coach kitchen staff; monitor payroll and attendance.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and brand standards.

Skills

Communication skills

Working under pressure

Commercial awareness

Health & safety knowledge

Leadership

NVQ / food hygiene certificates

Education

NVQ / food hygiene certificates

Job description

Location

St Ives Bay Beach Resort, Cornwall TR27 5BH

Hours

Permanent Contract – Part-time or full-time available

Salary

£31,773 per annum pro rata

What We Need in a Nutshell

We need someone who can assist the Kitchen Manager with leading and inspiring a busy kitchen team; someone who understands that food and drink are central to a happy holiday. From recruitment, inductions, training and team development to stocks, yields and audits but most of all doing what you love to do… cooking!

What You’ll Be Doing

As part of our F&B team, you will assist with managing the kitchen team to produce brilliant meals to our high standards. This will include:

• Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities
• Ensure consistency of quality of dishes before they reach the customer
• Plan orders of equipment and ingredients managing, stock and wastage effectively
• Remedy any problems or defects
• Assist the Kitchen Manager in managing and training kitchen staff
• Oversee the work of the kitchen team
• Manage and review team workload to maximise efficiency and ensure standards
• Maintain records of payroll and attendance
• Implementation of all legislative measures and administration required by the current Food Hygiene, licensing, and collaboration and respect across the team

Skills, Experience and Qualities You’ll Need

Are you dynamic, determined and enthusiastic? Do you thrive on providing memorable guest experiences and want to be part of a great team? These are the essential qualities for our kitchen manager. You will also have:

• Communication skills by listening to customers, engaging and building a rapport with your team and by dealing with challenging people and situations
• Experience of working under pressure including managing a workload at busy times
• An ability to build a commercial awareness and the experience of working in a commercial environment as well as becoming the best you can in your area of expertise
• Knowledge of working with regulations such as health & safety, auditing, and making sure that colleagues understand them
• Great leadership skills and the ability to build a high performing team in order to control, develop and improve all aspects of the kitchen including: P&L, yields, people, standards, legal compliance, service and brand integrity
• An NVQ and relevant food hygiene certificates

What We Can Offer You

Enjoy some great benefits, including:

• Up to 50% Discounts on Away Resorts holidays – because you deserve amazing getaways too.
• 20% On-park discounts – Enjoy the best of what we offer.
• Team Incentives – Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
• Holiday Hero Menu – Enjoy delicious meals with discounted food options on-park.
• Life Insurance – For peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay – After two years with us, we’ve got you covered.
• Holiday Buy Scheme – Flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
• Help @ Hand Scheme – Wellbeing support when you need it.
• Career Development – We believe in nurturing talent and promoting from within

Our Promise to You

We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors, to our teams we love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We’ll never accept any form of discrimination and we’ll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!