Chef De Partie

Gidleigh Park; West Alvington; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay + service charge

Perkbox access

Staff discounts 25% off F&B

Staff meals on duty

Employee development pathways

Internal promotions

Milestone gifts

Job summary

Gidleigh Park in Devon is seeking a Chef De Partie to join our passionate kitchen team. You will work within a dedicated section of the kitchen, preparing high-quality dishes from fresh ingredients and contributing to daily prep work.

You will learn from our senior chefs, sharing knowledge with junior chefs while maintaining impeccable standards of hygiene, safety, and teamwork in a fast-paced environment. This role emphasizes collaboration, skill development, and delivering exceptional guest

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar kitchen environment.
• High standards of food hygiene and safety.
• Willingness to learn and develop under senior chefs.

Responsibilities

• Prepare dishes as part of the CDP in your section of the kitchen.
• Work with fresh ingredients and contribute to daily prep.
• Maintain cleanliness and uphold food safety standards across the kitchen.
• Label and date food, ensuring proper stock handling.
• Share skills and knowledge with junior chefs and recruits.

Skills

Knife skills

Team collaboration

Job description

Location

Set on the upper reaches of the River Teign, the 24-bedroom Gidleigh Park enjoys an exquisite location on the very edge of Dartmoor National Park in Devon. With 5 AA red stars, a stunning quality led 1 Michelin starred restaurant and a member of Relais & Châteaux, Gidleigh Park is widely recognised as one of the best hotels and restaurants in the UK, and can offer learning and development opportunities few others can.

The hotel may also be able to offer on-site staff accommodation, in order to help the newest members of the team re-locate and settle in, and has free on-site parking.

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 £395 a month (close to £4,750 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 stylish boutique townhouse in the heart of Chelsea – 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