Job Description
Head Chef
We're looking for an experienced Head Chef who's passionate about food, customers and supervising teams to join us here at Claremont Landscape Garden.
Offering a great work/life balance with daytime-only hours in a great working environment. We have been awarded the Soil Association's Food for Life bronze award for our excellence.
You will be preparing tasty treats using seasonal, locally sourced ingredients and have the ability to work in a fast pace environment.
What you'll be doing as a Head Chef
You'll be supporting the Food & Beverage Manager with running the kitchen. You will guide and support one Chef and one kitchen apprentice, in this role. Using fresh, seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, you'll be preparing tasty soups, broths and salads, as well as baking.
As an experienced Chef, you'll be passionate about food and be driven to exceed customer's expectations by delighting them with the delicious food you create, prepare and serve.
You'll need to be;
* Great verbal and written communication skills & I.T literate
* A great team player and customer focused
* Qualified in food preparation and cooking to City & Guilds or NVQ L2 or equivalent
* Aware of good working knowledge of Health & Safety compliance requirements
How we reward you
* Health cash plan – from as little as £3.09 per month for you and your dependents
* Pension contribution match up to 10%
* EAP and proactive Health and Wellbeing
* Discounted gym membership at over 100 leisure facilities across the country
Unique to Us
* Work in some of the most beautiful, iconic and unique locations in the UK
* Free entry to NT properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
* 20% off in our Retail and Food & Beverage outlets
* Discount up to 35% off a National Trust holiday cottage booking
Looking after your career
* Grow your career through professional training courses across the Trust
* Develop your skills with an internal secondment
* Pay review linked to values and behaviours, commitment to progression
* Income protection due to illness
Claremont is a beautiful National Trust landscape garden in Surrey surrounding a small lake and featuring an amphitheatre. Our Great Barn Restaurant is open every day, and serves a variety of tasty treats and dishes to tempt our visitors. We pride ourselves on using local and seasonal produce in our dishes, with many of the ingredients being supplied by our very own kitchen garden, as well as our herb garden (which happens to be one of the countries biggest).
Apply to this fantastic Head Chef today