Head Chef

Location: Newquay Bay Holiday Resort TR8 4AS (Cornwall)

Hours: Permanent 40 hours per week

Salary: Up to £27,000- Dependant on experience

What we need in a nutshell

Someone who understands that exceptional food and drink are central to a happy holiday. From leading your team’s development to stocks, yields and audits but most of all doing what you love to do...cooking! This is an exceptional opportunity for a skilled Kitchen Manager who is looking to show off their creative skills.

Who are we?

We’re shaking up the Great British holiday. At our amazing UK resorts we pull out all the stops and add the bells and whistles to give our guests the holiday of a lifetime. We’re a growing company and our vision is to have a footprint that spans the UK, with enough parks to take on the big players.

Newquay Bay Resort, the perfect location for seaside adventures in Cornwall, mixed with the tranquillity of a country getaway. This peaceful valley setting on the breath-taking North Coast, experience the brisk breeze of open air, heavenly seafood restaurants, and next level water-sports!

Find out more about our holiday experience on our website: http://www.awayresorts.co.uk

What you’ll be doing

You will manage and inspire 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
• Be fully in charge of managing and training kitchen staff
• Oversee the work of the kitchen team
• Manage and review team workload to maximise efficiency and ensure standards
• 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 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 a key member in our F&B team, and we look after you with a great range of 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.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay – After two years with us, we’ve got you covered.
• Holiday Buy Scheme – Flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
• Life Insurance – For peace of mind.
• Pension scheme – Plan for your future.
• Help @ Hand Scheme – Wellbeing support when you need it.
• Perk Box – Exclusive discounts and benefits.
• Career Development – We believe in nurturing talent and promoting from within.

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!

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.

Good Luck!

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