S4 SCP 21 £26,124.00 pro rata (£13.54 per hour) + 12.27% on top of each hour worked for annual leave and bank holidays
Salary: £13.54 an hour
Location: Derby Museums
Hours: As and When Required
Contract type: Casual Contract
The Museum of Making has completed a five-year £17.5m programme on the site of the world’s first factory. Celebrating the area’s rich history of innovation, the Museum of Making is a contemporary space telling Derby’s 300-year history of making to inspire new creativity. A variety of galleries and exclusive events spaces as well as a bustling fresh-food café are available to create a high standard, expectation-exceeding guest experience, so we need a talented kitchen brigade to help make that happen!
The Role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and passionate Chef De Partie to join our brigade of chefs, based at the Museum of Making. As a Chef De Partie, you will be entrusted to manage a section of our fresh food kitchen, working with high quality and locally sourced produce to create dishes inspired by our Derbyshire heritage within a busy fresh-food café / restaurant. As well as operating as a café, we also host events alongside during the day, so our kitchen caters buffets for any numbers from 10-200 people, and we aim to never stop café service alongside.
We operate as a busy café and corporate venue by day and transform to a unique events venue by night, hosting gala dinners, awards ceremonies, weddings and special events from small groups to large numbers of 120+ guests, and our diary is forever growing with new enquiries! Specific duties will include anything from collecting and preparing fresh fish from our local market, helping to manage and organise stock, rotating from different sections around the kitchen and managing a specific area during a busy café and corporate service. Derby Museums is registered with The Hospitality Charter, meaning we share a passion for breaking the stigma on Hospitality not being an amazing place to work, we strive to offer an excellent work/ life balance and believe in working fair hours for all.
The Person
You will have a very strong eye for detail and a good understanding of what it takes to balance and prioritise multiple responsibilities in a busy kitchen and events venue. Our chef’s need to be organised and well structured. You must have experience of working in a fresh food kitchen at any level, and a passion for learning new recipes an experimenting with new ideas, you will also be a good team player who enjoys the pressures of a busy workplace. We love to develop our team, so we will offer you all compliance training as standard and we are happy to discuss development in any areas of the kitchen. 2 years’ experience as a Commis Chef or Junior CDP is preferable, but not essential.
We believe that diversity and equality within our workplace, programmes and in our outlook is crucial. We therefore particularly welcome applications from candidates that are under-represented at Derby Museums and within the heritage sector, including black and minority ethnic candidates and/or candidates with a disability.
Employee Benefits: 20 days (pro rata) + bank holidays (pro rata), all uniform provided, mileage allowance payable on authorised business travel.
Applications
If you believe you are the person we are looking for, please read the job description and person specification then please send your CV* and covering email to [email protected] quoting the reference number DM/JP/CDP04
Closing date: This opportunity will close once the vacancy is filled.
Interviews will be held at the Museum of Making, Silk Mill Lane, Derby DE1 3AF.
- Please ensure that your CV is sent to us in Word format or as a PDF
The link to our website where the application form can also be downloaded is https://www.derbymuseums.org/about/jobs/
