Chef de Partie

Old Swan and Minster Mill; Minster Lovell; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay with service charge

Retail and hospitality perks via Perkbox

25% off food & beverage

Confidential helpline for support

Free meals during shifts

Opportunities for career progression

Milestone awards for years of service

Job summary

Old Swan and Minster Mill in Minster Lovell is looking for a passionate Chef De Partie to join their skilled culinary team. You will be responsible for preparing and serving delicious dishes, ensuring a clean and safe kitchen environment while also managing your own section. The role emphasizes teamwork and offers opportunities for personal growth and skill development.

Enjoy competitive pay including service charge, along with a range of benefits designed to support your work-life balance and career progression.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Chef De Partie or similar role in a kitchen.
• Knowledge of food safety and hygiene standards.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and cook dishes to a high standard.
• Manage a section of the kitchen, ensuring cleanliness and safety.
• Train and mentor junior kitchen staff as needed.

Skills

Experience in a similar kitchen environment

Knife skills

Allergen training knowledge

Ability to mentor junior chefs

Job description

Location

Located just 15 miles from Oxford, Old Swan & Minster Mill is in the picturesque village of Minster Lovell. Consisting of both a quintessentially country English Inn, and a modern riverside 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 £150 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.

The Old Swan & Minster Mill offers a relaxed, fun yet professional environment to work in. Free parking is available on site, and we do offer discounted staff taxis for those that don't drive.

Role Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 labeling 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 Balance

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.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive 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.
• 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 is 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 here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk.

If you’re the type of person that likes to learn and share the wisdom, get in touch.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)