Demi Chef de Partie

Buckland Manor; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Service charge shared among team

Perkbox platform perks

Staff discounts 25% off food & B&B

Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Milestone awards

Job summary

Buckland Manor is seeking a Demi Chef De Partie to join our kitchen team. You'll work with fresh ingredients, apply your knife skills, and learn from senior chefs in a supportive country-house setting. Expect allergen training, a collaborative culture, and opportunities to progress within the group.

On-site staff accommodation may be available, with service charge shared among the team and staff discounts across the hotels. Competitive pay and meals on duty are provided.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar environment is preferred.
• You will work with fresh ingredients and deliver high-quality dishes.
• Ability to follow recipes and kitchen standards.

Responsibilities

• Work with fresh ingredients to create dishes for guests.
• Demonstrate strong knife skills and learn from senior chefs.
• Maintain allergen training and ensure safe food handling.
• Keep the kitchen clean and organised as part of the team.
• Label and date food accurately to ensure freshness.

Skills

Knife skills

Allergen training

Food hygiene

Team player

Fast paced environment

Job description

Location:One of the most elegant country house hotels in the Cotswolds, Buckland Manor is set in ten acres of stunning grounds. With 4 AA red stars, 3 AA rosettes, and a member of Relais & Châteaux, Buckland Manor offers employees the opportunity to work within a traditional, yet friendly English country house hotel.

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 £305 a month (around £3,600 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

The hotel may be able to offer on-site staff accommodation in order to help the newest members of the team settle into life at the hotel and local area, plus free parking is available on-site.

Come and join our team as a Demi Chef De Partie and let yourpassion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams toshow thoughtfulnesstowards each other and our guests.

As a Demi 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.
• 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.

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 tobe 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 herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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