Chef de Partie

Chef de Partie

40 hours a week for 52 weeks per year

We are looking to appoint a Chef de Partie to join our team as soon as possible. The successful applicant will assist the Management and all staff in the provision of a comprehensive catering service that provides first class food and service levels, in both quality and consistency, in accordance with the standards required and will also be responsible to assist the Head Chef in the development of the Refectory, striving to continually improve the food offer for the School.

As Chef de Partie your responsibilities would include:

Preparation of food across all services using fresh ingredients to the department standard and as directed by the Head Chef, including core pupil feeding and hospitality offer, Retreat centre and external lettings

• Ensure food is of high quality, well presented, nutritious and innovative
• Contribute to the development of new menus including core and fine dining offers
• Adhere to Health and Safety and Food hygiene standards including food labelling and allergen legislation, helping to promote a Food safety culture
• Ensure food waste is kept to a minimum through managing production and portion control
• Be aware of and adhere to appropriate recipe costings and usage of ingredients

What we are looking for:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
• Proven experience as a chef using fresh ingredients 
• Excellent understanding of ingredients and allergen legislation 
• Proven experience in safe food preparation 
• Ideally City and Guilds 706 (1&2)/NVQ Level 1 & 2 or experienced Chef with minimum 2 years’ experience
• Health & Safety  

The School offers its own generous salary scale and an enhanced benefits scheme including an employee assistance programme, meal provision and enhanced pension contribution. Employees have access to our facilities and benefit from free parking, social events and discounted school fees.

Worth is a highly successful co-educational, Catholic, Benedictine, 11-18 HMC boarding and day school of circa 600 pupils. It offers a broad curriculum, including the International Baccalaureate and A levels in the Sixth Form.

Applicants are required to apply online by using the Quick Apply button. Alternatively, an application form and job details are available from the HR Department

Email: recruitment@worth.org.uk  

Telephone: 01342 710215

Closing date for applications: 30 August 2024*

*We reserve the right to invite candidates for interview prior to the closing date and to close vacancies early if we have sufficient suitable applications. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Worth School is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children, all employees must have the ability to understand and adhere to Child Protection and Safeguarding legislation. The role holders safeguarding responsibilities are set out in the job description. References may be taken prior to interview and DBS and other vetting checks will be conducted on the successful applicant.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 Section 7(1)(a) states that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.