Chef de Partie

Voco Leicester; England; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent hotel brand in the United Kingdom is seeking a Chef de Partie to join their dynamic kitchen team. In this role, you will prepare and present dishes while ensuring high food standards. Ideal candidates will have excellent cooking skills and a passion for food creativity. This position offers benefits such as meal discounts and progression opportunities across the UK.

Benefits

Discounts across retail and restaurants

Family and Friends discounts in hotels

Free meals on shift

Uniform provided

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Established Chef de Partie or Commis Chef seeking their next challenge.
• Experience in a fast-paced environment preferred.
• Flexible attitude and hard working.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook, and present dishes in your area of responsibility.
• Support Executive Head Chef and Sous Chef with specials.
• Ensure high standards of food and health/safety regulations.

Skills

Outstanding cooking skills

Creativity in dish preparation

Team management

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef de Partie to join our highly successful team at voco Leicester.

In this role, you will be an integral part of our dynamic kitchen brigade, contributing to the creation of exceptional culinary experiences. You will be responsible for managing your section, ensuring the highest standards of food preparation, and delivering exquisite dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner service as well as our Meeting & Event guests.

What you’ll be doing as a Chef de Partie

• Preparing, cooking and presenting dishes in your area of responsibility – following specifications to ensure your Executive Head Chef and Sous Chef can quickly send out meals to a high standard
• Supporting your Executive Head Chef and Sous Chef in producing a range of specials that enable you to put your spin on things
• Ensuring Chefs stations are well stocked with anything they may need throughout service
• Managing and developing any Commis Chefs in your hotel – sharing your knowledge and expertise
• Ensuring you and your team deliver high standards of food and health and safety regulations – it’s not just our customers we want to make smile!

What’ll make you a great fit for this Chef de Partie role

• You’ll already be an established Chef de Partie or a Commis Chef seeking their next challenge
• You’ll have outstanding cooking skills gained within a fast-paced environment, but where exactly we are open to all backgrounds and experience
• You will be creative and have a passion for creating profitable and exciting specials
• Flexible and able to remain focused on results under pressure and to challenging deadlines
• Self-motivated and confident
• Hard-working but FUN!

The benefits

• Discounts across retail, restaurants, events etc (because we know life isn’t just about work)
• Family and Friends discounts in hotels across the Kew Green Hotels estate
• International Travel at Employee Rate for other branded hotels within our brand family (and you’re not just limited to good old Britain – our family has hotels that span all over the world!)
• Meals for free on shift – hard work is hungry work!
• Progression Room to grow, with opportunities across the UK and internationally
• Uniform provided
• Flexible attitude and working hours