Chef De Partie - 49.6 Weeks Per Year

Thomas Franks Ltd; Dover; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Free parking

On-site gym access

Job summary

Thomas Franks Ltd in Dover is seeking a Chef De Partie for a full-time, permanent role. The position is 42.5 hours per week, 49.6 weeks per year, with free parking and on-site facilities.

You will work with fresh seasonal ingredients, cook from scratch, and follow brand standards while helping manage food costs and wastage. The role offers ongoing training and progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced kitchen at CDP or junior sous chef level.
• Ability to work with fresh seasonal ingredients and follow menus.

Responsibilities

• Work well in a team of chefs delivering catering to pupils and teachers.
• Produce food from scratch using fresh ingredients and follow brand standards.
• Ensure food hygiene, health & safety policies and allergen controls are followed.

Skills

Food passion

Team player

Attention to detail

Food cost awareness

Organisation

English communication

Job description

Chef De Partie - 49.6 Weeks Per Year

Dover

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £30,039

Hours: 42.5 per week

A fabulous co-educational independent boarding school for children with military traditions. Set in 150 acres of Kent countryside near Dover. Catering for about 570 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of AM snack, Lunch, PM snack, Supper and a 6th form cafe. There will be a good amount of hospitality offering at this location. Contract is 49.6 weeks per year. This school operates 7 days a week so working patterns are 5 out of 7 days and has additional benefits of free parking and use of on site gym.

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

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.

Knowledge / Competencies

• 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

Benefits

• 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

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 DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS 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.