Commis Chef

Be Yourself – Be Leonardo

Here at Leonardo Hotels, we are recruiting for an Apprentice- Commis Chef to join our great team in The Kitchen. We are looking for an enthusiastic, genuine and friendly person who really enjoys working in hotels and wants to provide great hospitality to our guests, contributing to them having a Happy stay with us.

As an Apprentice Commis Chef

We want you to be part of a great and diverse team working together to provide great hospitality and products to our guests in the Kitchen. We set high standards for ourselves so that we can surprise and delight our customers and deliver a great experience.

What we want you to –

• Be flexible – to enjoy working different shift patterns and seeing the operation on different days of the week including the weekends, we don’t operate split shifts.
• Be standards  and detail driven to meet the menu specifications
• Be aware of hygiene and cleanliness standards and assist in meeting these.
• Be a team player- interact and communicate with the kitchen and restaurant team and sometimes guests if you are front of house.

The job –

• To contribute to the best of your ability to the production of food items.
• To ensure all dishes are prepared in a timely fashion and to the appropriate agreed standard.
• To be familiar with the menu of the day and know your responsibilities in accordance with the menu.
• To ensure excellent food hygiene practice is observed in the entire food chain from storage through to preparation and service.
• To ensure HACCP compliance within the kitchen and all Food & Beverage outlets.
• To avoid unnecessary wastage by observing proper control methods
• Ensure the kitchen equipment is in working order and report any maintenance issues
• To participate in training and want to be the best you can be in your role- there is a huge amount of training available to you if you want to build a career.

Why come and work for us – to receive practical training, development and progression within a dynamic and rapidly expanding company. If you want a career in Hospitality then look no further, we have great programs to support your development towards a long and successful career.

Through the apprenticeship programme you can:

• Gain training whilst you are employed and earning a wage
• Be trained to the national industry standard
• Benefit from coaching and mentoring from industry professionals
• Enhance your career prospects

Some of the great benefits of working for us include:

• The opportunity to work for a well-respected brand where people development is at the heart of our culture.
• Leo Points – we reward your performance with points, and what does points make….PRIZES. Whether its love to shop vouchers or that well deserved day off, you choose!
• Stay at one of our Leonardo Hotels UK for a hugely discounted rate and get a reduced rate for friends and family if they want to stay too.
• Employee of the month earning you a little bonus and fame for that entire month.
• An array of learning courses in which you can attend – the sky is the limit with your development with us, we nourish your skills and talents to develop leaders of the future.
• Earn yourself thousands by referring a friend to work with us.
• Meals on duty.
• We have many locations in the UK and Ireland which means if you want to develop or just fancy a change of scenery, we can help you to move..
• We help and support our local communities with lots of Charity Events throughout the year.