Job Ref: APE1156
Branch: Pine Trees
Location: Pine Trees, Pitlochry
Salary/Benefits: competitive salary plus up to £2k Tronc per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 40
Posted date: 12/05/2026
Closing date: 25/06/2026
Why Join Pine Trees Hotel?
Experience a warm welcome in the Scottish Highlands. Join us at Pine Trees Hotel as our new Chef De Partie and embrace the very best of Scottish culture. Nestled in the heart of Pitlochry, we invite everyone who joins our team to help us create a traditional Coorie lifestyle that reflects the natural beauty and serenity of our surroundings. At Pine Trees, we want our team and our guests to step away from the hustle and bustle and take in the breath-taking scenery within our 10-acre woodland estate.
You will work with a fantastic team with a strong focus on delivering exceptional guest experiences. We will help you to develop your skills and passions whilst offering boundless warmth and hospitality. Bringing your own ideas and creativity, to the Chef De Partie role, you will assist us to guide the guest experience beyond the expectation.
Benefits:
- 29 days holiday
- Training and development from day one
- Employee events and celebrations
- Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
- Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
- Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working.
- Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
- £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.
Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……
- Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
- Involvement in our employee recognition schemes
- Long service recognition
- Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
- 50% discount in our restaurants
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
- Spa treatments and product discounts
- Life Assurance cover
Your Role:
You will bring a passion and attention to detail that will make you an exceptional Chef De Partie. Your passion will ignite the experiences for our guests.
Joining the Kitchen Brigade, you will:
- Be passionate about food, preparing and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner to a high standard, ensuring guest satisfaction at all times.
- Work simultaneously with all Kitchen team members in a friendly manner offering an infectious smile and collaborative approach.
- Have extensive knowledge of our menus and food offerings.
- Assist the management team in the control of all food supplies and purchases coming in and going out of the kitchen, using date labelling processes.
- Adhere to all food safety and health and safety guidelines.
You will embrace every opportunity to create extra special moments for our guests.
As a Chef de Partie, we ask that you take pride in your work and have a willingness to learn. You will have a real passion for food, and you will have excellent attention to detail to provide consistently high standards. This is a vital role in the function of the hotel. You will be great at multi-tasking; you will be efficient at solving all guest enquiries and requests with ease.
We will support you by giving you the platform to develop, learn shine!
We ask of you:
- Previous experience at Commis Chef or Demi Chef De Partie level is essential.
- Previous experience in a hotel or restaurant environment is essential.
- Can deliver excellent standards.
- Uses initiative.
- is self-aware and able to evaluate their own work.
- has a customer service attitude.
- has the ability to multi-task and organise a variable workload.
- provides excellent attention to detail.
- holds a genuine desire to provide a Warmer Welcome to our guests.
We look forward to receiving your application for this role and welcoming you into our warm and friendly team and our haven within the Scottish Highlands.
Please note, this role does not meet the requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.
