Location: St Ives Bay Beach Resort, Cornwall TR27 5BH
Hours: Permanent Contract – Part-time or full-time available
Salary: £31,773 per annum pro rata
What we need in a nutshell
We need someone who can assist the Kitchen Manager with leading and inspiring a busy kitchen team; someone who understands that food and drink are central to a happy holiday. From recruitment, inductions, training and team development to stocks, yields and audits but most of all doing what you love to do...cooking!
Who are we?
We're a dynamic and growing company, shaking up the Great British holiday at our award-winning UK resorts. St Ives Bay Beach resort is a 120-acre park, nestled amongst the sand dunes with direct beach access whilst enjoying wide-ranging views towards St Ives. With 800 well-appointed chalets, static caravans and camping pitches, St Ives Bay Beach resort is a Cornish jewel that will soon offer all the unique facilities and events that Away Resorts have become renowned for. Want to find out more about our holidays? Check out our website: http://www.awayresorts.co.uk.
What you’ll be doing
As part of our F&B team, you will assist with managing the kitchen team to produce brilliant meals to our high standards. This will include:
- Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities
- Ensure consistency of quality of dishes before they reach the customer
- Plan orders of equipment and ingredients managing, stock and wastage effectively
- Remedy any problems or defects
- Assist the Kitchen Manager in managing and training kitchen staff
- Oversee the work of the kitchen team
- Manage and review team workload to maximise efficiency and ensure standards
- Maintain records of payroll and attendance
- Implementation of all legislative measures and administration required by the current Food Hygiene, licensing, and collaboration and respect across the team.
You will lead from the front, setting the standards for your team and motivating, coaching and supporting them to be outstanding.
One more thing…holidays happen at holiday times and eating, and drinking goes on in into the night, so you’ll need to work your magic on bank holidays, evenings and weekends too.
Skills, experience and qualities you’ll need
Are you dynamic, determined and enthusiastic? Do you thrive on providing memorable guest experiences and want to be part of a great team? These are the essential qualities for our kitchen manager. You will also have
- Communication skills by listening to customers, engaging and building a rapport with your team and by dealing with challenging people and situations
- Experience of working under pressure including managing a workload at busy times
- An ability to build a commercial awareness and the experience of working in a commercial environment as well as becoming the best you can in your area of expertise
- Knowledge of working with regulations such as health & safety, auditing, and making sure that colleagues understand them
- Great leadership skills and the ability to build a high performing team in order to control, develop and improve all aspects of the kitchen including: P&L, yields, people, standards, legal compliance, service and brand integrity
- An NVQ and relevant food hygiene certificates.
It’s about your values too. We have a can-do, fun loving, people centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes’ mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers – if that’s fired up your curiosity, have a read about it here and decide if it describes you.
What we can offer you
Enjoy some great benefits, including:
- Up to 50% Discounts on Away Resorts holidays – because you deserve amazing getaways too.
- 20% On-park discounts – Enjoy the best of what we offer.
- Team Incentives – Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
- Holiday Hero Menu – Enjoy delicious meals with discounted food options on-park.
- Life Insurance – For peace of mind.
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay – After two years with us, we’ve got you covered.
- Holiday Buy Scheme – Flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
- Help @ Hand Scheme – Wellbeing support when you need it.
- Career Development – We believe in nurturing talent and promoting from within
Want to join our team? Here’s how to apply
Just click on the Apply Now button and follow the instructions. To find out more about what it’s like to work for Away Resorts check us out at www.awayresorts.co.uk/careers.
Our Promise to You
Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all!
We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors, to our teams we love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We’ll never accept any form of discrimination and we’ll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. Afterall, wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!
Good Luck!
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