Junior Sous Chef

Amberley Castle Hotel Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly service charge shared

Staff accommodation

Perkbox discounts

Free meals on duty

Career progression opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Amberley Castle Hotel Limited is seeking a Junior Sous Chef to join our busy kitchen team. You will work with the Head Chef and Sous Chef to create exciting dishes using fresh ingredients for our guests.

We value passion, warmth and a positive attitude, with flexibility for rotas. Competitive pay plus monthly service charge and staff perks help you grow with us in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy kitchen environment.
• Able to work flexible rotas.
• Good team player with a positive attitude.
• Knowledge of allergen training.

Responsibilities

• Support Head Chef and Sous Chef in daily kitchen operations.
• Cook and present dishes using fresh ingredients.
• Share knowledge with junior team members.
• Maintain kitchen cleanliness and food labeling.
• Manage kitchen in absence of senior chefs.

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-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.

Come and join our team as a Junior Sous 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 Junior Sous Chef, you will be working with the Head Chef & Sous Chef to run a busy kitchen. You will be creating exciting and delicious dishes to be served to our guests.

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, 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 KP's and Commis coming into the industry.
• As a senior member of the kitchen team, you'll be responsible for managing the kitchen in the absence of the Head Chef and Sous Chef.

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.

As part of our team, we welcome your passion, natural warmth and humour to ensure our guests have an amazing experience every time. We're seeking friendly, warm and cheerful individuals who are happy to work together as a team and, importantly, want to have fun.

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 herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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