Chef de Partie – Permanent Role
£28,000 per year | 40 hours per week
Enhance Catering is recruiting an experienced Chef de Partie to join a friendly kitchen team in your area. This Chef de Partie position is ideal for chefs looking for structured shifts, daytime hours, and a better work-life balance while still working in a professional kitchen.
The Role – Chef de Partie:
We are looking for a talented Chef De Partie to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in Dover.
Catering for over 500 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, Lunch, Supper and a cafe. There will be a good amount of hospitality offering at this location. This school operates 7 days a week so working patterns are 5 out of 7 days and has additional benefits of free parking and use of on site gym.
You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen at CDP or junior sous chef level.
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
Benefits
- 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.
Hours
- Salary £14.36 per hour
- 40 hours per week
- Working 44 weeks per year. Holidays 5.6 weeks
- Shift patterns 5 Over 7. Weekends on rotation.
- Shift times between: 06:00 and 19:30
This Chef de Partie role is perfect for chefs wanting to step away from late-night hospitality shifts while continuing their Chef de Partie career in a supportive environment.
Apply now if you’re a passionate Chef de Partie looking for your next opportunity.
INDEN
Job Type: Permanent
Pay: £28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Referral programme
Work Location: In person
