Head Chef

Location: St Ives Bay Beach Resort, Cornwall TR27 5BH

Hours: Seasonal contract – Variable Hours

Salary: £14.83 p/h – Paid Weekly!

What we need in a nutshell

We love creating exciting dining concepts across our holiday parks and finding talented chefs to take them forward. This is a head chef role that, unusually for a high volume catering operation, has a lot of scope for you to use your talents for fresh, from-scratch 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 the 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

You’ll be leading and inspiring the kitchen team, creating freshly cooked dishes and working in partnership with our Front of House team to deliver delight to guests and maximise profits in our busy restaurant. This includes: 

• Overseeing all aspects of the Back of House (BOH) operation, ensuring guests receive an exceptional level of service and delicious meals, freshly cooked 
• Leading key shifts and taking control of the day-to-day BOH operation, ensuring dishes comply to agreed specifications and the team are suitably deployed 
• Supporting the F&B Manager in recruiting, managing and inspiring the kitchen team 
• Controlling food margins through effective stock management  
• Championing and implementing Health and Safety and Hygiene policies to ensure team and guest safety 
• Consulting with, and learning from, the Group executive Chef to create your own seasonal, local specials where you source suppliers and products and put your mark on the menu 

One more thing…holidays happen at holiday times, so you’ll need to work your magic on bank holidays and weekends too, but that’s made easier because we this role comes with onsite accommodation (subject to availability). 

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 through listening to customers, engaging and building a rapport with your team
• 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

This is an exciting role as part of our F&B team, and we look after you with a great range of benefits, including:

• Training & Development
• Regular incentives, rewards and recognition
• Holiday Hero discounted menu
• Discounted holidays across all our parks
• On Park Discounts

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! After all, wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same? We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. 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!