Chef de Partie

Andrew Brownsword hotels; Torquay; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious hotel group in Torquay is seeking a passionate Chef De Partie to join their culinary team. You will prepare fresh dishes and manage your own section of the kitchen while ensuring a clean and safe working environment. The ideal candidate should have previous experience in a similar role and be willing to share knowledge with junior chefs. This position offers competitive pay, a supportive work culture, and numerous perks including discounts in hotels and a focus on life/work balance.

Benefits

Competitive pay including service charge

Retail and hospitality perks

25% discount on food & beverage

Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals during duty

Career development opportunities

Milestone awards for tenure

Qualifications

• Experience as a Chef De Partie or similar role.
• Ability to keep up to date with allergen training.
• Knowledge in preparing fresh food.
• Willingness to share knowledge with junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and cook dishes to high standards.
• Maintain cleanliness in the kitchen.
• Manage your own section in the kitchen.
• Label and keep track of food properly.

Skills

Knife skills

Ability to work in a team

Attention to detail

Knowledge of food safety

Job description

Location

The Imperial Torquay is a magnificent 19th Century 152-bedroom Victorian four-star hotel, and offers breath taking sea views, plus a host of leisure facilities, making it fun and picturesque location to work in.

Just a short walk from the main train station and town centre, the hotel is really accessible for our employees.

Some staff car parking is available on site, as is free use of all the hotel's leisure facilities, including our gym and swimming pools.

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!)

Come and join our team as a ChefDe 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.

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.