Apprentice Chef
Manor House Hotel (Okehampton) Ltd · OKEHAMPTON
Wash-up duties (i.e. washing/drying etc). Please note this is manual wash-up of
generally larger pots/pans etc. Smaller items (such as plates/cutlery etc are
washed via a machine in a separate department).
• Keeping a clean/safe working area.
• Assisting other Kitchen staff as required.
• Breakfast Chef duties - cooking 'full English' items for Hotel Guests, e.g. fried
eggs, bacon, sausages, beans, tomatoes, hash browns etc (buffet service as
opposed to 'cook to order').
• Preparing sauces and gravies for evening meals.
• Cooking main buffet items (for lunch/evening meal etc) and passing to service
staff on demand.
• Buffet preparation (i.e. cold buffet items, cheeses, cold meats, coleslaw etc). All
our services (e.g. breakfast, lunch and evening meal) are buffet service e.g. NOT
a cook to order/ticket-line kitchen.
• Helping the head chef i.e. they will give you a list of jobs for the shift, such as;
finishing off/decorating of desserts, slicing meats for the buffet and evening
meal, prepping food for the next day etc.
• Seeing in deliveries & stock rotation.
• Candidates must first learn how we operate all stations within the kitchen, from
Lead Shift (i.e. No. 1 as we call it), to Breakfast Chef, to Buffet Prep, to KP.
• Kitchen Shift Leader - Cooking main buffet items (for lunch/evening meals) i.e.
lasagne's, pasta dishes, beef dishes, chicken dishes, vegetarian etc. All items
are generally cooked on mass, as we are often catering for 300+ hotel guests.
• Monitoring stock levels and placing orders as necessary (orders are generally
placed on a daily basis.
• Supervising a team of 2-6 other staff on any given shift (staffing numbers are
subject to hotel guest numbers)
Perks & benefits
Skills required
Team orientated, good sense of humour, a get it done ethic and be personable to interact with other staff from different departments.
Qualifications required
Ideally Maths & English GCSE 4/C or above
Training you'll get
One day a week at College to obtain Level 2 Production Chef qualification. Workplace mentor and skills officer visit every 6-8 weeks.
Future prospects
Being part of the new Evergreen Escapes Group that has been formed to be a leading new UK leisure group and could lead to working / operating at other UK sites
The essentials
Hours, commitment and the dates that matter.
Training provider
Delivers the training for this role and manages your application.
