Chef De Partie (1 year relevant experience required)

Chef De Partie - term time only

Bristol

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £13.50 per hour

A coeducation day school in Bristol with a separate nursery, separate prep school through to main senior school. Catering for around 900 students and teachers daily. Our catering offer is morning purchased snack offer, lunch is served in the main dining hall, separate lunch is sent to the nursery facility. Also a sixth form café serving tea, coffee, pastries and hot snacks. This location has a good amount of high-end hospitality. The school operates Monday to Friday with catering for match teas only on Saturday. Additional benefits to this location are use of on-site gym and free parking facilities.

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

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

Primarily a Monday to Friday role with cover every 1 out of 4 Saturdays required. Term Time only.

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.

Knowledge competencies:
● 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.
● Workplace pension.
● 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

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 DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process.