Kitchen Assistant

**Job Ref**:JI25592

**Branch**:Leonardo Hotel Plymouth

**Location**:Leonardo Hotel Plymouth

**Salary/Benefits**:Competitive Salary

**Contract type**:Casual

**Hours**:Part Time

**Posted date**:05/02/2025

**Closing date**:22/02/2025

Be Yourself - Be a Bold Team Player
- Be Leonardo

As a Kitchen Assistant you’ll be right in the heart of the hotel, so we want you to take pride in everything you’ll be doing to support the Head Chef and keep things running like clockwork. Take a deep breath because you’ll be stepping into a busy role You’ll thrive under pressure and see a future working with food, and with Leonardo Hotels of course, whilst working as part of a vibrant team to exceed our guests’ expectations.

**Some of the perks our colleagues enjoy include**:

- Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK Europe: get planning that city break you’ve been dreaming of
- Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops
- Meals on duty
- Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us
- We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration
- The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support
- Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression

**If you’re our ideal**Kitchen Assistant,** **you will**:

- Be yourself
- Absolutely love the Kitchen environment and working within a team of Chefs to deliver excellent food and service
- Have a willingness to learn, adapt and deliver to the high standard of food our guests expect
- Be passionate about your working area and responsibilities
- Be keen to step up when the situation demands
- Have an eagle eye for attention to detail

**Why come join us?**

We look after our colleagues just as well as we look after our guests. Once you’re part of the team, you’re part of the Leonardo community. We have support on tap, so expect top-notch LD programmes, practical training and clear progression within our vibrant and dynamic team.

**Our Story**

Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we operate over 270 hotels across the United Kingdom and Europe. We look after over 55 hotels across the UK Ireland, and being one of the fastest growing hotel groups, we have plans for major expansion over the next few years’; there’s never been a more exciting time to _come join us_

**About Leonardo Hotel Plymouth**:
This straightforward, modern hotel is 12 minutes from the National Marine Aquarium and 8 miles from Dartmoor Zoo. The simple, contemporary rooms feature free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs and work desks, as well as tea and coffeemaking equipment. Upgraded rooms include harbour views. Some offer sofabeds. There's a casual restaurant, as well as a bar offering light meals and TV sports.

**About Leonardo Hotels**:
At Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality.

Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993 With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.

As an employer we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality
- it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values**:Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and Willing.**

At Leonardo Hotels each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations

We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system
- these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off