Chef De Partie

Peoplebank; Dollar; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company in Dollar, Scotland is looking for a Chef De Partie to provide high-quality meals in a fast-paced kitchen. The role involves creating seasonal menus, adhering to food hygiene regulations, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Candidates should have relevant kitchen experience and excellent communication skills. This position offers numerous benefits, including free meals and employee assistance programs, alongside opportunities for career development within a prestigious environment.

Benefits

Free meals on duty

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Career progression opportunities

Wider wallet scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced kitchen at CDP or junior sous chef level.
• Ability to work well in a team providing catering services.
• Ability to follow food hygiene and Health & Safety policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide catering services to pupils and teachers.
• Produce food from fresh ingredients following company standards.
• Control wastage and adhere to food standards.

Skills

Interest in food & excellent customer service

Team player

Passion for great food

Organised Chef with attention to detail

Understanding of food costs and wastage

Good understanding of verbal English

Standard of written English and reading skills

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: 13.91per hour
Hours: 35 per week

A private co-educational day and boarding school in Dollar, Scotland. Catering for 550 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of lunch, breaks and supper. This is a 52 weeks a year and operates 7 days a week. There is a some ad hoc hospitality through the year. Additional benefit to this location is free parking on site.

We are looking for a talented Chef De Partie to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in Dollar Academy.

You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen at CDP or junior sous chef level.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

Key responsibilities:

• To work well in a team of chefs providing catering services to pupils and teachers
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.

You will have the following skills:

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Innovation and passion for great food
• An organised Chef with attention to detail
• Understand the basics of food cost and wastage.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred
• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer Scotland Schools

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced PVG, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the PVG Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.