Chef De Partie

LORD WANDSWORTH COLLEGE; Hart; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Lord Wandsworth College is seeking a Chef de Partie to prepare and cook a range of high-quality meals for pupils and staff, working closely with the Head and Sous Chefs to maintain the college’s daily dining experience. The role covers various kitchen sections, with a focus on exciting tastes, nutritious cooking, and high standards for events and functions throughout the year.

Permanent, term-time contract (42 weeks) with additional non-term time function catering; applications via Catering

Responsibilities

• Prepare and cook a range of high-quality meals for pupils and staff.
• Work closely with Head and Sous Chefs to maintain daily dining experience.
• Contribute to functions and events throughout the year with high food standards.

Job description

This role is responsible for preparing and serving a variety of high-quality meals for both Pupils and Staff. As a Chef de Partie, you will work closely with both the Head and Sous Chefs to enhancing the pupil's daily meal experience as well as working on many functions throughout the year where the very highest quality of food is required to promote the college.

You will work around the different sections of the kitchen always with a view of how to excite the tastes of everyone we are cooking for while promoting good wholesome nutritious food. This is a position of responsibility with an expectation that you can make a difference.

The catering department is very well equipped, and the catering team take pride in seeking new ideas of how best to vary customer choice, continue to promote 'healthy eating' for all and add value to the customer service ethos.

Contract: Permanent, Term Time, 42 weeks (33 weeks per year term time, plus 3 weeks non term time, with an additonal 6 weeks holiday lets, as well as functions).

Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence please feel free to contact Iain Hedley, Catering Manager on [e-mail]

Closing date: Midnight on 21st September 2026, with interviews taking place on the 30th September and the 1st October 2026.

We welcome people of all faiths and those who are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity, we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups, such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.

Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding, caring education for boys and girls since 1922.