Chef De Partie – One Garden Brighton

Full time role. Salary up to £25,000 per annum

THE OPPORTUNITY

One Garden Brighton is a newly redeveloped tourist destination; a walled garden, rediscovered, reinvented, and opened to the public for the first time in spring 2021. One Garden Brighton features expertly designed gardens; One Garden Kitchen, a place to eat and drink; One Garden Market, a retail space complete with nursery; and One Garden Events offering small and large-scale community events. One Garden Brighton is a subsidiary of Plumpton College.
You will be integral to building this new business, shaping and influencing how the tourist destination will run. As Chef de Partie (CDP) you will work day-to-day under the direction of our Head Chef, responsible for our commercial catering food production, operations, and chefs’ team.

THE ROLE

Your role will be to support the commercial outlet One Garden Kitchen, a place to eat and drink, including developing the menus and food offer, as well as supporting our busy events programme and developing our commercial functions and events business.

The successful candidate will be an experienced CDP from a hotel or restaurant background, and be responsible for producing high quality dishes and menu items for the day-to-day operations of a busy commercial eatery and catering business. You will work closely with the Head and Sous Chefs to ensure smooth cross working operations to maximise efficiency and best practice as well superb customer service. Due to the nature of this tourist attraction it is anticipated that staff will work additional hours during busy seasons, with the opportunity to work reduced hours in the quieter parts of the year.

You will be supported by the One Garden General Manger and the wider One Garden Brighton team, as well as Plumpton College’s Head of Catering and Hospitality.

THE TEAM

You will be a team player as part of the chef’s team, apprentices, Front of House Team, volunteers and students; sharing your passion for horticulture, great food and service and leading by example.

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for people who:

• Are enthusiastic
• Are creative
• Are passionate about horticulture, food, and customer service
• Enjoy working in all weathers
• Possess excellent people skills, and enjoy liaising with the general public

If you share these values and would like to be part of our growing team then we’d like to hear from you. Please send your most up to date CV to jobs@onegardenbrighton.com

We reserve the right to call candidates to interview/withdraw this vacancy at any time if there is a good level of response. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application as soon as possible.

One Garden Brighton is committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and is dedicated to pursuing non-discriminatory policies and practices and eliminating unfair discrimination on any basis.

One Garden Brighton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.