Chef De Partie | Monday to Friday

Thomas Franks; Moreton-in-Marsh; Remote; GBP 33,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Free parking on site

Cycle to work scheme

Workplace pension

Volunteers leave – up to one day perปี

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Thomas Franks is seeking a Chef De Partie at our Moreton-in-Marsh site to join a busy school kitchen serving fresh meals to pupils and staff. This is a term-time, 40-hour-per-week role on a full-time, permanent basis, with a starting rate of £16.50 per hour.

You will work in a fast-paced environment, prepare from scratch, follow brand standards, and contribute to seasonal menus while maintaining high hygiene and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience as CDP or junior sous chef in a fast-paced kitchen.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Chef De Partie

Food preparation

Team player

English communication

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: £16,50 per hour
Hours: 40 per week

A leading, co-educational, day and boarding school for children aged 3 to 13 in Moreton-in-Marsh. Catering for about 400 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, AM snack, Lunch, PM snack and supper along with match teas. There is A good amount of hospitality at this location throughout the year. This is a term time only contract and operates Monday to Sunday so working pattern is 5 over 7 days. This location benefits from free parking on site.

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

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

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.