Chef de Partie

Hand Picked Hotels Ltd; Bath; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious luxury country house hotel as a Chef de Partie, where you'll play a vital role in creating exceptional culinary experiences. This full-time position offers competitive pay, career progression opportunities, and a supportive work environment dedicated to guest satisfaction. With a flexible attitude, you’ll lead a busy kitchen section and inspire junior chefs while keeping up with the latest food trends.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Company pension scheme

Life assurance scheme

Employee Assistance Program

28 days holiday increasing with service

Career progression and training programs

Discounted staff stays and meals

Annual loyalty awards

Online retail discount platform

Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience in a quality-driven hotel or restaurant environment.
• Ability to mentor junior chefs and assist in various kitchen areas.
• Staying informed of food trends and implementing them.

Responsibilities

• Run a busy kitchen section and maintain high cooking standards.
• Impart knowledge to junior chefs while adapting to kitchen needs.
• Ensure guests receive a memorable dining experience.

Skills

Kitchen knowledge

Team collaboration

High standard cooking

Flexibility

Emotional intelligence

Job description

About the Company

Hand Picked Hotels is a beautiful collection of 21 privately owned, luxury country houses and coastal retreats, each hand picked for their individuality. Architecturally distinctive and quintessentially British, every hotel boasts an extraordinary location, from Scotland to the Channel Islands, offering breath taking views, from vast countryside to expansive beaches, to lush woodlands. With every need taken care of, the team at each hotel ensures every guest has a magical experience, encouraging them to return time and time again.

Hand Picked Hotels was founded in 2001 by owner and Chairman, Julia Hands MBE. Whilst each hotel is individual, every property fulfils the company values of family, individuality, community and care, ensuring a hand picked experience for every guest and employee.

We are currently recruiting for a Chef de Partie at Bailbrook House Hotel, part of Hand Picked Hotels.

Bailbrook House Hotel is a prestigious luxury country house hotel, steeped in history and located within the beautiful city of Bath. Bailbrook House Hotel has 88 bedrooms spread across the Mansion house and court and has been awarded 4 Silver stars by the AA. It is a popular venue for relaxing weekends away or for weddings and events.

About the Role

Our Chef de Partie’s enjoy being part of a team and love the fact that no day is the same. You will be running a busy section, already be able to cook to a high standard, and have the ability to help impart your knowledge to junior chefs.

All of our hotels are individual in their own way, just like our Chefs. Whether it’s filleting or frying, you’ll know your way around a kitchen like the back of your hand and have a mind full of delicious creations ready to wow our guests.

About You:

• To be considered for this role you will have current base knowledge and experience of the kitchen within a quality driven hotel, restaurant, or hospitality environment.
• You will be enthusiastic and willing to take on new responsibilities. Adopt a flexible approach to assist in different areas of the kitchen as business and guest needs dictate.
• You will have the ability to impart your knowledge to the junior members of the team
• Your finger will be on the pulse of all the latest trends, and have the desire to learn the next big thing
• Having a high level of emotional intelligence, enabling you to be able to anticipate our guests needs ensuring they receive a Hand Picked experience.
• It is essential you can demonstrate how you would be able to deliver our guest experience standards at Hand Picked Hotels, which includes the ability to go above and beyond to ensure guests have a high-quality, personalised, and magical experience that they remember, recommend, and return to time and time again.

Company Benefits

Our Benefits include:

• A competitive salary package of £15.84 per hour plus a share of service charge.
• This is a Full-Time role working 5 days out of 7 including weekends on a rota basis, 40 hours per week, which may vary depending on business needs.
• Company pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Employee Assistance Program to support you with whatever life throws at you.
• Company Sickness Scheme Benefit.
• 28 days holiday per year including bank holidays, increasing to 33 days including bank holidays with length of service.
• Forward career progression, with access to our In House and external training programs, including apprenticeships up to level 7, which are all supported by our learning and development team.
• Discounted staff stays in our hotels and on food & drink.
• Annual loyalty awards (like afternoon teas and overnight stays
• Online retail discount platform offering thousands of savings with high street retailers and restaurants as well as a health and well-being platform.
• Opportunity to make lifelong friendships and be part of team that celebrates Diversity and Inclusion.

Hand Picked Hotels is an Equal Opportunities employer. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.