Chef De Partie

Thomas Franks Ltd.; Perth; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Cycle to work scheme

Team & company social events

Workplace pension

Excellent career progression

Job summary

Thomas Franks Ltd is seeking a talented Chef De Partie in Perth to join our boarding school kitchen team. This temporary sick leave cover for approximately 3–6 months offers an opportunity for a permanent role. You will work five days out of seven, cooking from scratch with seasonal ingredients and following our brand standards.

You will be part of a busy team, focused on quality, consistency and learning, with access to our apprenticeship and development programmes and a range of staff benefits.

Qualifications

• You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen at CDP or junior sous chef level.
• You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus.
• You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.
• You will understand the basics of food cost and wastage.
• You will be able to communicate in reasonable written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• To work well in a team of chefs providing catering services to pupils and teachers.
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following brand standards.
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.

Skills

Interest in food

Customer service

Team player

Creative cooking

Attention to detail

Food cost & wastage

Verbal English

Written English

Experience in CDP or junior sous

Tools

None

Job description

A co-educational independent boarding school in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, for children aged between 12 and 18 years. Catering for just under 400 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, Lunch and Supper with some high end hospitality and summer lets as well. As this is a boarding school, it operates 7 days a week so working patterns would be 5 out of 7 days. There is free parking available at the school.

We are looking for a talented Chef De Partie to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in Perth.

It's a temporary sick leave cover for approximately 3-6 months, with an opportunity for a permanent offer.

You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen at CDP or junior sous chef level.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

Key responsibilities:

• To work well in a team of chefs providing catering services to pupils and teachers
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.

You will have the following skills:

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Innovation and passion for great food
• An organised Chef with attention to detail
• Understand the basics of food cost and wastage.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc)
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer Scotland Schools

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced PVG, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the PVG Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.