Join us as a Head Pastry Chef at The Dorchester, recognised as one of ‘The Sunday Times Top 10 Best Places to Work for’ in 2024 & 2025 and ‘Hotel of the year – London’ at the 2024 AA Hospitality Awards. We continually strive to build and nurture a culture where inclusiveness is part of our DNA, reflected in our values of passion, personality, respect, working together, and creativity. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our culture and drives our success.
We care about your career and are known for having the absolute best people in the industry. When you join us as a Head Pastry Chef, you start a unique opportunity to become celebrated as the very best in your field. You'll learn not only from your fellow Legends, but also through our award-winning learning academy, so that you can achieve the highest standards of craft, service, and leadership and become a legend in your own story.
About the Role
Our Head Pastry Chef is the creative artist of our hotel! Entrusted with caring for every detail in our pastry and bakery production. Though skilfully trained, they never lose sight of their ultimate reasonability, to create lifelong memories for our guests.
What you’ll do
As a Head Pastry Chef, you'll love what you do and take pride in delighting our guests:
A day in the life of our Head Pastry Chef demands high levels of energy, creativity and passion. They need consistency even though the days are never alike; and creativity to tackle daily adventures. Our pastry and bakery offers a playground for seriously creative production to impress the people that make the world turn. Listing all of the contributions that our Head Pastry Chef accomplish would be lengthy but the list below is essential to know.
* Our Head Pastry Chef is responsible for managing pastry and bakery kitchens in order to deliver the best experience across our culinary offerings at The Dorchester.
* Team leadership: Lead, train and motivate a high performing Pastry team that understands their role in delivering the very best culinary experience and refined attention to detail. Foster a positive, collaborative, and respectful culture that brings the best out of people.
* The ideal candidate is someone that enjoys delivering joy to our guests through precision and execution in everything that is produced in house. Our guest experience is something that we strive to exceed in everything that we cook, serve and create. You will be responsible for leading the creativity including one of a kind masterpieces at Cake and flowers, the artistry of our afternoon tea, show stopping amenities in our suites and much more.
* Sometimes our guests have special requests involving dietary requirements, bespoke products and even special occasions. Most of these requests are fulfilled by our Executive Pastry Chef and the brigade.
* Our values of Personality, Passion, Respect, Working Together and Creativity guide us each and every day. The purpose of Head Pastry Chef is to live their behaviours to continue to create our legacy.
* Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. Our Head Pastry Chef must communicate with other departments and extended hotel team in order to ensure the alignment remains.
The items shared are the essence of a day in the life of a Head Pastry Chef, but we'll make sure you are provided with specifics on how we care for our hotel.
What you’ll bring
* Previous experience as an Head Pastry chef in a similar environment.
* All of our employees are ambassadors of our Vision, Values and culture.
* We encourage the unique personalities and passions of our employees, working together; as a team, a hotel and Collection.
* Our guests forge our legacy. Knowing and understanding them is our goal, valuing kindness over process.
* In a fast-moving world, we remain consistent and relevant, requiring flexibility from everyone on the team.
* Strong communication skills – English is the primary language used at The Dorchester
What you'll get
* Complimentary Stays: Enjoy complimentary stays with breakfast at Dorchester Collection Hotels every year.
* Discounts out hotels, Benefit from discounts at various high street and online shops
* Employee Perks: Enrol from day 1 into the Royal London Private Pension scheme (we contribute 8% towards your pension); Benefit from Seasonal ticket loan, Rental deposit scheme, private financial advice, and Eye care vouchers.
* Training and Development: Advance in your career by accessing various apprenticeships from Level 2 to Hospitality Degree Level 5. We partner with outstanding nationally recognised Apprenticeship providers.
* Social Events: Participate in vibrant social events, including a summer party, winter ball, pub quizzes, and cultural and milestone recognition celebrations.
* Referral Bonus: Earn a £1000 bonus when you recommend a friend.
* Well-being Support: Access immediate well-being advice because we care about our employees.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. If you need us to do anything to support you during the recruitment process (such as adjustments to how you apply, alternative formats of information, or adjustments to the assessment process itself), please do call People & Culture team on 02073197011 or email PeopleAndCultureLondon.UK@dorchestercollection.com so that we can discuss how we can support you through this process.