Sous Chef

Andrew Brownsword Hotels; Chagford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hotel group in Chagford seeks a passionate Sous Chef to join their team. This role involves working closely with the Head Chef, creating exciting dishes, and managing the kitchen. Ideal for someone with experience in a similar environment, this position offers competitive pay, service charge, and numerous perks including staff discounts and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox

25% off food & beverage in hotels

Confidential Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Development pathways and internal promotions

Milestone awards for years of service

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy kitchen environment required.
• Willingness to teach and guide junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the Head Chef to run a busy kitchen.
• Create exciting dishes using high-quality ingredients.
• Manage the kitchen in the absence of the Head Chef.
• Keep the kitchen clean and organized.

Skills

Knife skills

Allergen training

Team management

Job description

Location: Set on the upper reaches of the River Teign, the 24-bedroom Gidleigh Park enjoys an exquisite location on the very edge of Dartmoor National Park in Devon. With 5 AA red stars, a stunning quality led 1 Michelin starred restaurant and a member of Relais & Châteaux, Gidleigh Park is widely recognised as one of the best hotels and restaurants in the UK, and can offer learning and development opportunities few others can.


Gidleigh Park is open Tuesday to Saturday each week- which means for most employees they are guaranteed Sunday and Monday off each week! :) The hotel may also be able to offer on-site staff accommodation, in order to help the newest members of the team re-locate and settle in, and has free on-site parking.

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 £395 a month (close to £4,750 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.

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

If you're the type ofperson that likes to learn and share the wisdom, get in touch

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!)