Chef de Partie

Apex Hotels; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days holiday

Training and development from day one

Employee events and celebrations

Inhouse company app for staff

Gym and pools access

Healthy meals on shift

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Apex Hotels in Edinburgh invites you to join as a Chef de Partie, delivering high-level food and guest experiences across breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You will support the kitchen team, ensuring standards, consistency, and efficient operations while maintaining a warm, guest-focused service culture.

You will be part of a team that values quality, offers development opportunities, and provides a range of employee benefits. A structured 12-week learning journey helps you grow in the role.

Qualifications

• Previous experience at Commis Chef or Demi Chef De Partie level is essential.
• Previous experience in a hotel or restaurant environment is essential.
• Can deliver excellent standards
• Uses initiative
• Is self-aware and able to evaluate their own work
• Has a customer service attitude
• Has the ability to multi-task and organise a variable work load
• Provides excellent attention to detail
• Holds a genuine desire to provide a Warmer Welcome to our guests

Responsibilities

• Be passionate about food, preparing and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner to Company standards, ensuring guest satisfaction at all times
• Work simultaneously with all Kitchen team members in a friendly manner offering an infectious smile and collaborative approach
• Have extensive knowledge of our menus and food offerings
• Assist the management team in the control of all food supplies and purchases coming in and going out of the kitchen, using date labelling processes.
• Adhere to all food safety and health and safety guidelines

Skills

Multi-tasking

Attention to detail

Customer service

Team collaboration

Job description

Why join Apex Hotels?

You’ll be welcomed into Apex Hotels with genuine warmth as you join us as a Chef de Partie in Edinburgh. From your very first day, you’ll be part of a team that truly cares, where people feel valued, included, and connected. We love individuality - it’s what brings the spark, the curiosity, and the human touch to every interaction.

You will meet great people, have fun at work, develop new friendships, learn new skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:

• 29 days holiday
• Training and development from day one
• Employee events and celebrations
• Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
• Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
• Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working.
• Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
• Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
• £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.
• Contributions to a pension plan.

Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……

• Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
• Involvement in our employee recognition schemes
• Long service recognition
• Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
• 50% discount in our restaurants
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
• Spa treatments and product discounts
• Life Assurance cover

Role Overview:

As a Chef de Partie,you will be responsible for delivering a high level of food to all our guests. Working in the Kitchen you will help maximise revenue through first class food preparation and delivery. You will embrace every opportunity to create exceptional food for our guests and provide a personal experience our guests will want to share.

Joining the dedicated Kitchen department, you will:

• Be passionate about food, preparing and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner to Company standards, ensuring guest satisfaction at all times
• Work simultaneously with all Kitchen team members in a friendly manner offering an infectious smile and collaborative approach
• Have extensive knowledge of our menus and food offerings
• Assist the management team in the control of all food supplies and purchases coming in and going out of the kitchen, using date labelling processes.
• Adhere to all food safety and health and safety guidelines

You will embrace every opportunity to create extra special moments for our guests and provide a personal experience our guests will want to share.

About you:

As a Chef de Partie, we ask that you take pride in your work and have a willingness to learn. You will have a real passion for food, and you will have excellent attention to detail in order to provide consistent standards. This is a vital role in the function of the hotel and ultimately one that they will remember the most. You will be great at multi-tasking, you will be efficient at solving all guest enquiries and requests with ease.

On your first day you will begin a structured 12 week learning journey, giving you the skills, knowledge and confidence to be a great Chef de Partie. With this in mind, we are looking for a Chef De Partie who:

• Previous experience at Commis Chef or Demi Chef De Partie level is essential.
• Previous experience in a hotel or restaurant environment is essential.
• Can deliver excellent standards
• Uses initiative
• is self-aware and able to evaluate their own work
• has a customer service attitude
• has the ability to multi-task and organise a variable work load
• provides excellent attention to detail
• holds a genuine desire to provide a Warmer Welcome to our guests

Come and join our team, guided by our values of trust, friendliness, teamwork, and passion - the good stuff that makes hospitality feel effortless. Here, you’ll shine in your own way, creating joyful moments that lift the everyday.

Please note, this role does not meet the requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.