Register Your Interest To Complete A Chef Apprenticeship

Premium Village Inns; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Friendly team

Development opportunities

Day 1 perks

Discounts & offers

Cash incentives

Birthday box

Job summary

Upham Inns is recruiting an apprentice Commis Chef to learn on the job in a busy kitchen across our premium pubs in Southern England. You will receive full on-the-job training and no prior experience is required, with shifts including days, evenings and weekends.

The 12‑month apprenticeship leads to a Commis Chef Level 2 qualification. You will be paid hourly with a share of tips, and enjoy 25 days holiday plus staff discounts and a friendly team.

Qualifications

• No experience is required; you will receive full on the job training.
• Willingness to work shifts including days, evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the food preparation process
• Cooking and preparing elements of high quality dishes
• Preparing vegetables, meats and fish
• Assisting other Chefs
• Helping with deliveries and restocking
• Assisting with stock rotation
• Cleaning stations
• Contributing to maintaining kitchen and food safety standards.

Job description

A job you can enjoy

The apprenticeship is made up of many varying responsibilities including:

• Assisting in the food preparation process
• Cooking and preparing elements of high quality dishes
• Preparing vegetables, meats and fish
• Assisting other Chefs
• Helping with deliveries and restocking
• Assisting with stock rotation
• Cleaning stations
• Contributing to maintaining kitchen and food safety standards.

Finding the right balance between your work and your lifestyle is really important, with a Commis Chef apprenticeship you will often find that your shifts include days, evenings and weekends so be sure to consider your home and family commitments and choose a career that enables you to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

The apprenticeship will last 12 months and you will be working towards your Commis Chef Level 2 Apprenticeship.

No experience is necessary & you will receive full on the job training. You will also receive at least 30 hours a week paid work, 25 days paid holiday, 40% discount in any of our pubs & high street shopping discounts

You will be paid hourly with a share of the tips.

We also offer!

• Flexible hours to work around your life.
• A fun working environment in a friendly team.
• Development opportunities if you want them.

Day 1 perks of working for Upham! (We don’t make you wait 3 months)

• High St discounts.
• Friends and family discount.
• 40% off Charming Bedrooms estate
• Cash incentives.
• Birthday box to help you celebrate.

It’s a place you can develop

• Opportunity to progress.
• Job security, no zero hours contracts.
• Working with a premium offer/ group.
• Small company where you are treated as an individual.
• Your opinion counts.

What do we do?

We own a collection of beautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are in idyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be the quality local of the area, serving high quality fresh pub food in a cozy pub ambience. Most of our pubs have some Charming Bedrooms as well. New to our growing family is Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we started rolling out last year.

It’s an exciting time to join us!

Upham Inns is growing, and we want you to grow with us and be part of our success. We’ve been busy investing in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want to continue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate people into our team

We are looking for great people to join us

Our company is big enough to support you but small enough to care about your individual needs. We are a friendly, hands on team who have a passion for running great pubs. We are always on the lookout for like-minded people who have the desire to work and grow with us.