Apprentice Chef

*2024
Winners of the Springboard Excellence awards in Employee Engagement &
Health/Wellbeing*

As a Chef Apprentice with Eden
Hotel Collection, you will be immersed in a vibrant learning environment within
our collection of luxury hotels.

What you’ll be doing?

Our Academy will provide the
opportunity for you to work with us on a full-time basis and to ‘earn while you
learn’, setting you up with the very best skills, qualifications and experience
to begin your career in the industry. We have partnered with HIT Training to
create a Chef Academy, where you will attend 1-2 days of training per month
either at a HIT Chef Academy site, with accommodation and travel costs covered
or as a virtual session.

Back in your hotel, with the
support of your Exec Chef you will learn on-the-job from exceptional chefs
within a highly skilled kitchen brigade (we hold 2-3 rosettes in each of our
Brasseries/Restaurants), whilst working with premium seasonal produce and
high-quality equipment/tools.

What you’ll need?

We want to hear from aspiring
Chefs who love the idea of creating amazing food from the best ingredients,
have high standards and bags of flair and creativity along with:

• 
  
• A real and evident passion for food;
  
• The desire to build a career as a Chef;
  
• Superb attention to detail and driven by
  delivering exception standards
  
• A ‘can do attitude, along with a good
  sense of humour, team spirit,
  
• Enthusiasm and desire to succeed;
  
• Excellent communication skills;
  

What to expect?

You’ll work in a busy and
hardworking team environment, where we’ll expect you to be hungry to learn
more. You will be working a minimum of 40 hours per week, across 5
days(inclusive of training days). Our hotels are busiest on Fri-Sunday, and so
you should be prepared to work regular weekends.

EHC are committed to offering
opportunities to those groups who may be under represented within our workforce
– within our kitchen’s, we would particularly welcome the addition of a greater
representation of female chef’s.

What’s in it for you?

Our bespoke Eden Extra’s
benefits platform offers:

• 
  
• Enhanced annual leave - 31 days annual
  leave entitlement, rising to 33 days with service;
  
• Fairly distributed Service
  Charge/Gratuities paid monthly;
  
• Discounts and cashback across 800 high
  street and food retailers, gyms, days out, restaurants/takeaways and
  utilities.
  
• Access to our wellbeing centre with Hello
  Fresh Recipes, fitness video’s and money management tools;
  
• Cycle to Work Scheme and Electric Vehicle
  Lease Scheme;
  
• Health plans for dental, optical,
  alternative health care + 24 hour GP access;
  
• Discounted stays, spa treatments, golf
  and leisure access across EHC properties;
  
• Support via our Wellbeing Strategy based
  on Money, Mind, Body & Heart; anything from financial wellbeing to
  domestic violence and family friendly policies;  we genuinely CARE
  about our people;
  
• Access to Eden Engage – our employee
  portal with regular team news;
  
• Grow with us via apprenticeships and
  bespoke leadership programmes – RISE & THRIVE;
  
• Enhanced family friendly policies- we
  want to help you feel fully supported during any significant life
  events. 
  
• Return to work financial support for
  those returning from maternity leave;
  
• You’ll also get free parking, meals on
  duty, uniform etc….but you already knew that, right?
  

Our culture focuses on
collaboration so we regularly involve our teams in helping to shape this via:

-         An
opinion that counts….regular surveys and forums that ask YOU for YOUR opinion;

-         A
‘You said, we did’ approach so that you know we’re taking your feedback
seriously;

-         A
commitment to Sustainability & Wellbeing with employee champions in every
hotel & HQ;

We are proud to be members of the Hoteliers Charter and are
committed to providing a great place to
work with our teams at the heart of all we do – we lead with a values led
approach based on Heart, Honesty, Spirit and Team, which were written
‘by our people for our people’. 
Testament to this is our multi award wins in employee wellbeing and
engagement. 

Eden Hotel Collection is a
passionate advocate of providing equitable workplace’s, as such we seek to
recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a variety of
backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We therefore encourage applications from
all genders, races, religions, ages and sexual orientations, as well as
parents, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring
diverse perspectives to EHC.

All applicants must be eligible
to live and work in the UK.

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