Head Chef

Andrew Brownsword hotels; Amberley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury hotel group in the picturesque village of Amberley is seeking a Head Chef to manage a busy kitchen. In this role, you will create exciting and delicious dishes, oversee kitchen hygiene, and keep up with allergen training. The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a similar role and a genuine passion for cooking fresh, quality dishes. You will also enjoy a range of benefits including competitive pay, service charge, and discounts across the hotel group.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Retail and hospitality perks through Perkbox

25% off food & beverage in hotels

Confidential helpline via Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Opportunities for progression

Milestone awards

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy kitchen environment at a similar level.
• Knowledge of managing kitchen operations.
• Ability to create and cook dishes with fine ingredients.

Responsibilities

• Manage and run a busy kitchen.
• Create exciting dishes for guests.
• Ensure cleanliness and safety in the kitchen.

Skills

Knife skills

Allergen training

Kitchen management

Food labeling

Training team members

Tools

Procure Wizard

Job description

Location

Located in the picturesque village of Amberley in the beautiful West Sussex countryside, Amberley Castle is a unique luxury hotel steeped in over 900 years of history. With 4 AA red stars, 3 AA rosettes, and a member of Relais & Châteaux, Amberley Castle gives our team the chance to work in a castle with quality and style.

Service Charge

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 £300 a month (close to £3,600 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

The hotel may also be able to offer off-site staff accommodation in our 2 staff houses (within walking distance to the hotel) in order to help the newest members of the team to re-locate, so they can settle into life at the hotel and local area in comfort.

How to Apply

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)

Job Overview

Come and join our team as a Head Chef and let your passionand personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

Responsibilities & Expectations

As a Head Chef, you will be running a busy kitchen. You will be creating exciting and delicious dishes to be served to guests.

This role would suit someone who has worked in a similar environment, at a similar level previously.

Check out some of the key points about the role :

As a skilled chef, you’ll get to really put those knife skills to the test, cooking with the finest of ingredients.

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 CDP’s, KP’s and Commis coming into the industry.

• You’ll be responsible for managing the kitchen.

You’ll write the allergen matrix, to ensure that all our guests are kept safe.

We can’t run out of food, so it’s important to keep on top of ordering, via Procure Wizard.

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.

Benefits & Perks

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.