Chef De Partie - Winchester, Hampshire
Salary: £31,000 per annum
Holiday Inn Winchester
Our Holiday Inn Winchester is an exciting and innovative hotel where each day is uniquely different. Located on the edge of the beautiful South Downs National Park and within five minutes from Winchester City Centre it’s accessible location and multi-million-pound refurbishment has made it into one of the flagship Holiday Inns in the UK. With that in mind, the Holiday Inn Winchester is a great place to kickstart your hospitality career or if you’re looking to progress your journey, this is the place where future can become reality.
Modern and contemporary, this award-winning Hotel offers something for all. It's a big operation, so you’ll need to be hands-on, with 131 rooms, 8 flexible event spaces, The Odyssey Restaurant, Bar and Pizzeria and our stunning ANA Spa. Whether it be a pre-cruise stay, accommodation for a business trip, a relaxing spa-day, wedding, birthday party or family celebration, our hotel offers it all.
This could be your opportunity to work somewhere fast-paced and growing, somewhere where you can be yourself, create memorable experiences for every guest and put your stamp on the ever-evolving brand that is the Holiday Inn.
Are you out-going, full of energy and enthusiastic? A natural-born communicator? Are you passionate about offering excellent customer service? Then our fabulous Holiday Inn Winchester could be the place for you.
The Role:
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Chef de Partie to join our brigade. We look for enthusiasm, passion and drive in our chefs. You’ll be working in a busy and hardworking team environment, where you’ll continually learn and develop your career. Supporting the Head Chef and Sous Chef in leading and guiding the team, you’ll fine tune not only your culinary skills, but your management one’s too. You’ll have vision and use your creative skills to assist in developing exciting new menu concepts for our guests to enjoy. You’ll need sharp communication skills to keep control with the ability to work well under pressure, supporting our Demi -Chef de Parties or Commis Chefs along the way.
The Ideal Candidate:
We’re looking for a Chef de Partie to hit the ground running. You’ll display perseverance and have bags of experience working in fast -paced, luxury restaurants with top quality local ingredients. You’ll have a keen eye with meticulous detail for every plate you serve. You’ll be an ambitious and driven professional who is able to support the Head Chef in motivating the team as well as assist in the continuous improvement of both product and service. As a competent Chef de Partie ensuring you and your team have the highest of standards of cleanliness, food hygiene and health and safety, will be second nature to you.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of eligibility.
Benefits:
* Heavily discounted Staff Room Rates at all Castlebridge properties for you and your friends and family, so everyone can enjoy a break away. Rates start from £50 per night, with breakfast included.
* 50% off your bill when you dine in one of our Restaurants or Bars.
* Fully funded Apprenticeship programme to develop your career without a reduction in your pay.
* Cycle to work scheme - save up to 40% on a wide range of bikes.
* Healthcare Cash Plans - dental, optical, medical and more available from just £1 per week.
* Referral schemes for referring your friends or family to join our team.
* Flexible shift patterns and contracts available to suit your lifestyle, we are 24/7 operation, meaning shift patterns to suit everyone.
* Monthly colleague recognition through our 5-Star Service rewards programme and monetary rewards for long service milestones.
* Use of Wagestream financial wellbeing platform, allowing you to access your pay as and when you need it.
* Employee Assistance Programme - free, confidential advice available 24/7 to you.
* An internal communications hub which acts as our very own social media platform, connecting you to your colleagues and the wider group in seconds.