Chef De Partie

Andrew Brownsword Hotels; Bath; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay + service charge

Perkbox discounts

Staff rate on hotel stays

Employee assistance programme

Free meals on duty

Internal promotion pathways

Job summary

The Bath Priory in Bath is seeking a Chef De Partie to join a passionate kitchen team. You will work with fresh ingredients, run your own section, and showcase knife skills while learning from senior chefs.

Maintain allergen awareness, keep the kitchen clean, and help mentor junior cooks. The role offers competitive pay plus a share of service charges and staff perks across the Brownsword hotels group.

Qualifications

• Knives and kitchen equipment handling with precision.
• Compliance with allergen training and food safety standards.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure kitchen as part of a team.
• Maintain cleanliness and correct labeling of all food items.

Responsibilities

• Work with fresh ingredients to create dishes for guests.
• Run your own section of the kitchen as a CDP.
• Learn from senior chefs and share knowledge with junior staff.
• Maintain all food safety and cleanliness standards on shift.

Skills

Knife skills

Allergen training

Teamwork

Food safety

Kitchen cleanliness

Job description

Location: The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey- coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi- award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team. Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as a ChefDe Partie and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Chef De Partie, you will be working as part of a passionate team of chefs. You will play a crucial part of serving delicious dishes for our guests to enjoy.

This role would suit someone who has worked in a similar environment previously.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• You’ll be working with fresh food, turning it into delicious dishes for our guests.
• Our CDP’s run their own section of the kitchen.
• As a skilled chef, you’ll get to really put those knife skills to the test, whilst learning new skills from our senior chefs along the way.
• We want to keep everyone safe, so you’ll need to keep up to date with the latest allergen training.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen is responsible for keeping it clean.
• Nobody wants out of date food, so labelling your food is important.
• As an experienced chef, we encourage you to share your knowledge with new, budding KP’s and Commis coming into the industry.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we have many perks

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.