Chef de Partie

The Slaughters Country Inn - Kitchen; Lower Slaughter; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Perkbox perks

25% off food & beverage across hotels

Staff rate £25 B&B per person

Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Development pathways and promotions

Milestone awards

Job summary

The Slaughters Country Inn, set in the heart of a picturesque Cotswold village, is seeking a Chef De Partie to join our passionate kitchen team. You will manage your own section, showcase knife skills, and help deliver consistently high standards for our guests.

You will be supported by senior chefs, receive allergen training, and benefit from market-competitive pay plus service charge, staff rewards, and generous staff discounts across the Brownsword Hotels group.

Qualifications

• Proven ability with knife work and preparing fresh ingredients.
• Attention to allergen control and food safety.
• Ability to work well in a kitchen team and maintain high standards.

Responsibilities

• Work in a busy kitchen as part of a cohesive team.
• Run your own section as a Chef De Partie.
• Keep up to date with allergen training and food safety practices.
• Maintain cleanliness and proper food labeling in the kitchen.
• Share knowledge with junior kitchen staff and contribute to training.

Skills

Knife skills

Allergen training

Team player

Food safety

Fresh food handling

Job description

Location: Set in the heart of one of the most picturesque Cotswold villages, The Slaughters Country Inn offers the authentic charm of a traditional village inn. With 5 AA Gold Stars for Guest Accommodation and 2 AA rosettes, The Slaughters Country Inn offers a relaxed yet professional environment to work in. The hotel may be able to offer both on or off-site staff accommodation, in order to help the newest members of the team re-locate, so they can settle into life at the hotel and local area in comfort, plus there is free parking on-site at the hotel.

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 £260 a month (close to £3,200 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as a Chef De 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.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk