Commis Chef

The Bath Priory; Bath; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Service charge shared

Perkbox perks

Staff discounts

Free meals on duty

Milestone rewards

Job summary

The Bath Priory in Bath seeks a Commis Chef to join our passionate kitchen team. You will help prepare dishes using fresh ingredients and support senior chefs in daily kitchen operations.

We value teamwork, cleanliness and efficient labelling of ingredients. You should be flexible with rosters, and eager to learn our development pathways as you grow with the Brownsword family of hotels.

Qualifications

• Previous kitchen experience preferred.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Flexible with rotas and shifts.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of dishes with fresh ingredients.
• Keep the kitchen clean and organized at all times.
• Label and date all prepared foods to ensure freshness.

Skills

Food prep

Teamwork

Food labeling

Job description

Location: The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey- coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi- award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.
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 £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as a
Commis Chef 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 Commis Chef, you will be working
as part of a passionate team of chefs. You will play a crucial part the
preparation of food that goes into the delicious dishes, created by our chefs
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, prepping,
  so that our chefs can it into delicious dishes for our guests.
• 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.

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 cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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