Apprentice Chef

Apprentice Chef - New Opening - Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Location: THE PIG - and The Village Pub, Barnsley, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Salary: £11.10 - £11.44 per hour, plus service charge.

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week over 5 days.

Contract Type: Permanent

Start Dates: Mid-August. THE PIG - and The Village Pub is due to open early September. Therefore, for training purposes this role has an anticipated start date of Mid-August. We kindly ask all applicant to take this into consideration upon application.

Important Information: As part of our selection process, you may be invited to an informal recruitment session on Wednesday 26th or Thursday 27th June. If shortlisted, you will receive an email with further information on your application including a link enabling you to book yourself on one of the sessions or suggested interview. Please continue to check your email inbox and/or junk mail for updates.

Welcome to THE PIG - and The Village Pub

In January 2024, we acquired the 17th century Barnsley House hotel that is tucked away in the quintessential Cotswold's village of Barnsley, just four miles from Cirencester. THE PIG - and The Village Pub offers guests a classic example of an English country garden that evolves with the seasons including a kitchen garden that will supply the produce found on our 25-mile menu.

We are delighted to start the recruiting Apprentice Chefs to join our kitchen brigade.

About the Apprenticeship

We are looking for Apprentices to join our award-winning Chef Academy. As an Apprentice Chef you will experience all the things that make the PIGs unique, from craft training to butchery, foraging, smoking and curing meats. You will get to work on all sections of the kitchen, gaining a full understanding of each area. What's unique about this apprenticeship? There is no age requirement. Plus, you will be involved in other activities outside of the kitchen, including supplier visits, chocolate training and bread making. The apprenticeship offers clear and proven career progression, expert guidance from our training provider - Umbrella and you will receive everything you need to start your new career in the kitchen, including a full knife set, uniform, practical cookery book and recipe journal. Having the opportunity to work in other PIG kitchens, you will work alongside skilled chefs at various levels of their career, all whilst working with a menu that changes daily.

Our kitchens are fast paced and energetic, which is what we look for in an individual. Come with enthusiasm, your knives and a bucketful of passion and we can help you develop the rest. No experience is required, just the eagerness to get stuck in and aim to be the best chef you can be.

We are an inspiring, exciting, and fun place to work and in return for your commitment to us you can expect something a little different:

• Staff stays - free B&B.
• 35% discount on food, beverages & treatments across all PIG Hotels.
• Meals on duty.
• Annual holiday increase (up to 33 days)
• Take home goods - cost price.
• Free access for you and your family to an on-demand GP, Physiotherapy, and counselling services through Help@Hand.
• A range of learning & development courses.
• Anniversary vouchers - dinner with wine for 2.

Home Grown Hotels is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against candidates based on any of the protected characteristics set out in the Equalities Act 2010.

Robin Hutson: 'As with all good hospitality, THE PIG is fundamentally about people; it's the personalities, passion, knowledge, and skills of the people we work with that somehow converge to creating THE PIG experience'.