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?

We are proud to offer great places to work with our teams at the heart of all we do – we lead with a values led approach towards based on Heart, Honesty, Spirit and Team, which were written ‘by our people for our people’.

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.

INDLP