Sous Chef

The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey- coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi- award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

As a Sous Chef, you will be working alongside the Executive Head Chef to run a busy kitchen whilst galvanising a high performing team whilst creating exciting and delicious dishes to be served to guests . With a new Executive Chef in position it is a great time to join the team.
This role would suit someone who has worked in a similar role and has experience within a Michelin environment.

Check out some of the key points about the role:
As a skilled chef, youll get to really put those knife skills to the test, cooking with the finest of ingredients.
We want to keep everyone safe, so youll need to keep up to date with the latest allergen training.
Being one team, everyone in the kitchen is responsible for keeping it clean.
Nobody wants out of date food, so labelling your food is important.
As an experienced chef, we encourage you to share your knowledge with new, budding Junior Sous, CDPs, KPs and Commis coming into the industry.
Youll be responsible for managing the kitchen in the absence of the Head Chef.
Along with the Head Chef, youll write the allergen matrix, to ensure that all our guests are kept safe.
We cant run out of food, so its important to keep on top of ordering, via Procure Wizard.
To say thank you, we have many perks :
Competitive pay We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
Service Charge
Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
Excellent discounts across our family of hotels you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
We understand its OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious . Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels
We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.
Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests. xwzovoh
We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon to the 900-year-old Amberley Castle.