Sous Chef

Andrew Brownsword Hotels; Bath; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious hotel group in Bath is looking for a Sous Chef to join their dynamic kitchen team. You will collaborate with the Head Chef to create exciting dishes and manage the kitchen in their absence. Competitive pay is offered alongside service charge, along with various perks such as discounts at hotels and support programs. Ideal candidates will have prior kitchen experience and a passion for culinary excellence.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Hospitality perks via Perkbox

25% off food & beverage

Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Opportunities for development

Milestone awards for service

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar kitchen environment is essential.
• Ability to manage kitchen operations in the absence of the Head Chef.
• Up-to-date with allergen training.

Responsibilities

• Cooking and creating dishes with high-quality ingredients.
• Managing the kitchen team and maintaining cleanliness.
• Creating and updating the allergen matrix to ensure guest safety.
• Ordering supplies and managing inventory.

Skills

Knife skills

Team collaboration

Attention to cleanliness

Food safety knowledge

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.

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!)

Come and join our team as a SousChef and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, andwe encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards eachother and our guests.

As a Sous Chef, you will beworking alongside the Head Chef to run a busy kitchen. You will be creatingexciting and delicious dishes to be served to guests.

This role would suit someone whohas worked in a similar environment previously.

Check out some of the key pointsabout the role:

• As a skilled chef, you’ll get to really putthose knife skills to the test, cooking with the finest of ingredients.
• We want to keep everyone safe, so you’llneed to keep up to date with the latest allergen training.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen isresponsible for keeping it clean.
• Nobody wants out of date food, so labellingyour food is important.
• As an experienced chef, we encourage you toshare your knowledge with new, budding Junior Sous, CDP’s, KP’s and Commiscoming into the industry.
• You’ll be responsible for managing thekitchen in the absence of the Head Chef.
• Along with the Head Chef, you’ll write theallergen matrix, to ensure that all our guests are kept safe.
• We can’t run out of food, so it’s importantto keep on top of ordering, via Procure Wizard.

Work/life, or as it should be calledlife/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair withour rotas. We just ask that you can beflexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we havemany perks:

• Competitive pay – We are proud thateveryone 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 lotsof retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family ofhotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotelsplus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across thegroup & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so weoffer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you requireabout anything you might need as part of our Employee AssistanceProgramme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals whenyou are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, weencourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop -our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in thebusiness.
• We provide lots of opportunity toprogress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions,including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you forevery year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne,afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach thebig 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 hotelstogether under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm heartsand experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique,individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything wedo, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feelincluded, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels invery special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – tosee the whole group, take a look here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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