Chef de Partie

Highgrove Gardens; Tetbury; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Highgrove Gardens in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is seeking a Chef de Partie to join the Orchard Room team. You will support the Head Chef and Sous Chef to deliver high standards of food production and service, with a hands-on, proactive approach.

This role requires a passion for fresh, seasonal, and local produce, and a strong sense of confidentiality. You’ll work 40 hours across 5 days, including some weekends, at The Orchard Room, Doughton, Tetbury.

Qualifications

• Experience in a high-profile, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality and discretion.
• Passion for fresh, seasonal, and local produce with menu preparation.

Responsibilities

• Work within the kitchen team to ensure the smooth running of the restaurant.
• Motivate and positively influence staff, both front and back of house, to ensure consistent teamwork.
• Maintain a high standard of food, presentation, and behaviour as expected at Highgrove.
• Maintain awareness of health and safety issues and responsibilities, reporting and correcting any discrepancies with the hospitality manager.
• Assist with recording the monthly stocktake.
• Check the delivery notes/invoice against the order.
• Help in any area of the kitchen when circumstances dictate.
• Ensuring that all employees adhere to the company’s uniform, customer service, health, food safety, and hygiene standards.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the menu and offerings of Highgrove.
• Carry out any other appropriate duties as requested by the head chef.
• Understanding the history of Highgrove and relaying this to guests of the gardens, being an ambassador for the King’s Foundation.

Job description

Working at Highgrove

When the Gardens at Highgrove open to the public each year, nearly 40,000 people come to visit. As part of our welcoming and highly professional Estate team, you’ll make their experience special.

Visitors can enjoy the hospitality offered in the Orchard Room. When the estate is open to the public, visitors with tour tickets can dine in the Orchard Room Restaurant, an elegant, table-serviced dining room with views of the Orchard Terrace. The restaurant offers a selection of meals and refreshments. Additionally, visitors can dine in the Orchard Room's private dining room, where private lunches are available for small groups.

What you’ll be doing

The Chef de Partie's role is to play a vital part in the team by ensuring the smooth operation of the outlet and supporting the Head Chef and Sous Chef in delivering the highest standard of food production and service.

Your passion for fresh, seasonal, and local produce is a key aspect of our team’s success. You will be an integral part of preparing menus in line with Highgrove principles, working closely with the Head Chef and Sous Chef. Your hands-on approach and proactive, personable attitude will be highly valued. Your experience in a high-profile, fast-paced environment is not just a requirement but a testament to your capabilities. A high degree of confidentiality and discretion is also essential.

Main areas of responsibility

• Working within the kitchen team to ensure the smooth running of the restaurant
• Motivate and positively influence staff, both front and back of house, to ensure consistent teamwork
• Maintain a high standard of food, presentation, and behaviour as expected at Highgrove
• Maintain awareness of health and safety issues and responsibilities, reporting and correcting any discrepancies with the hospitality manager
• Assist with recording the monthly stocktake
• Check the delivery notes/invoice against the order
• Help in any area of the kitchen when circumstances dictate
• Ensuring that all employees adhere to the company’s uniform, customer service, health, food safety, and hygiene standards
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the menu and offerings of Highgrove
• Carry out any other appropriate duties as requested by the head chef
• Understanding the history of Highgrove and relaying this to guests of the gardens, being an ambassador for the King’s Foundation

What you’ll need

• The catering environment can be a physically demanding environment, requiring substantial physical effort at times with heavy lifting and sometimes long periods of repetitive tasks. A certain degree of bending, stretching, twisting, and constant movement is required, as is the ability to work at a quick pace
• A high level of flexible working is required to meet the changes in service needed, which are dependent on different types of service requirements

Other

• The post will be based at The Orchard Room, Doughton, Tetbury
• The position is 40 hours per week, worked 5 days over 7, to include some weekends, bank holidays, and occasional evenings
• TOIL is accrued during peak season and spent in off-peak season as the business requires
• Any TOIL spent prior to departing from the company must be repaid within your last pay period
• You must have the legal right to work in the UK

Highgrove Gardens is a highly renowned garden, described as one of the most inspiring and innovative gardens in the UK. Since 1980, the gardens have been managed organically and include a variety of garden features and areas, including a walled kitchen garden, a thyme walk, topiary and hedging, a terrace garden, a cottage garden, wildflower meadows, island beds, an arboretum, a woodland garden, and various water features.

The King’s Foundation is a charity founded by King Charles III and was first formed in 1990. Inspired by the vision and values of His Majesty, the Foundation focuses on creating better communities where people, places and the planet can coexist in harmony.

The charity offers education courses for over 15,000 students annually, health and wellbeing programmes for nearly 2,000 people every year, and spearheads placemaking and regeneration projects in the UK and overseas to revitalise communities and historic buildings.

The King’s Foundation is headquartered at its flagship regeneration project, Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland, and acts as custodian of other historic Royal sites including the Castle of Mey in Caithness, Scotland, and Highgrove Gardens in Gloucestershire, which are open to visitors. The Foundation also carries out its work at educational and cultural hubs in London, based at The King’s Foundation School for Traditional Arts in Shoreditch, Trinity Buoy Wharf on the River Thames and the Garrison Chapel in Chelsea.

We have a diverse and inclusive workplace, creating a welcoming, safe space for everyone.

This means that every member of our team can bring their whole self to work.

We encourage qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to and join The King’s Foundation and bring their valuable skills and experiences.

The Foundation is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees, including the provision of workplace adjustments.

We do not tolerate discrimination based on protected characteristics (age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership) or other differences such as socio-economic background or social origin.

The sale of highgrove products, garden tours and events support the charitable work of the kings foundation.