Head Chef

Location: Located in the picturesque village of Amberley in the beautiful West Sussex countryside, Amberley Castle is a unique luxury hotel steeped in over 900 years of history. With 4 AA red stars, 3 AA rosettes, and a member of Relais & Châteaux, Amberley Castle gives our team the chance to work in a castle with quality and style.

SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.
Service charge can be in the region of £300 a month (close to £3,600 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

The hotel may also be able to offer off-site staff accommodation in our 2 staff houses (within walking distance to the hotel) in order to help the newest members of the team to re-locate, so they can settle into life at the hotel and local area in comfort.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you)

Come and join our team as a Head Chef and let your passion
and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in
our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our
guests.

As a Head Chef, you will be running a busy kitchen. You will
be creating exciting and delicious dishes to be served to guests.

This role would suit someone who has worked in a similar
environment, at a similar level previously.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• As a skilled chef, you'll get to really put
  those knife skills to the test, cooking with the finest of ingredients.
• We want to keep everyone safe, so you'll need to
  keep up to date with the latest allergen training.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen is
  responsible for keeping it clean.
• Nobody wants out of date food, so labelling your
  food is important.
• As an experienced chef, we encourage you to
  share your knowledge with new, budding CDP's, KP's and Commis coming into the
  industry.
• You'll be responsible for managing the kitchen.
• You'll write the allergen matrix, to ensure that
  all our guests are kept safe.
• We can't run out of food, so it's important to
  keep on top of ordering, via Procure Wizard.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is
important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas.  We
just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in
return.

 To say thank you, we have many perks:

• Competitive
  pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a
  rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on
  top.
• Treat
  yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through
  our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent
  discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off
  food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of
  £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get
  special rates too.
• We
  understand it's OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run
  confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might
  need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We
  sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To
  be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be
  curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are
  unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We
  provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made
  hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We
  like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our
  milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and
  someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra
  special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique
  gift especially chosen for you. 

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready
to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply
memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in
personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple
things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and
welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from
the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to
our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory,
two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look
here 

If you're the type of person that likes to learn and share
the wisdom, get in touch

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready
to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply
memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in
personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple
things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and
welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from
the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to
our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory,
two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look
here 

One click apply to become part of our family that works
hard & plays hard too, inspires and supports each other and has a load of
fun along the way.