Leonardo Royal Hotel Southampton Grand Harbour, West Quay Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 1AGSHARE:Be Yourself - Be LeonardoAt Leonardo Hotels, we are recruiting for a Junior Sous 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 memorable stay with us.As Junior Sous ChefWe want you to be part of a great and diverse team working together to provide great products to our guests in the restaurant, bar or conference departments. We set high standards for ourselves so that we can surprise and delight our customers and deliver a great experience.Experience we expect -
Exceptional Chef de Partie looking for their first Junior Sous Chef position
Background in branded hotels or restaurants is preferred - so you will understand how we work
Flexiblility - to enjoy working different shift patterns and seeing the operation on different days of the week including the weekends as well as mornings, or evenings (no split-shifts here)
Be comfortable following a standardised menu
To be standards driven and have good organisational skills.
To be able to work well under pressure at times and multi task in a fast paced environment and to enjoy it
Too be able to communicate and motivate your team providing day to day leadership and direction
Good people skills - to work well in a team - we want work to be fun for all of our employees
Know the EHO requirements and be able to ensure the team do to
Your responsibilities will be:
Manage, supervise and participate in the preparation of food for all the Food and Beverage outlets.
Ensure food is produced in a timely and efficient manner and meets the highest standards of taste, quality and presentation.
Ensure the control of costs and productivity.
Keeping the team up to date about departmental, hotel and company activities through daily communications
To ensure the kitchen is clean and that the team all know the correct hygiene standards expected.
To ensure the kitchen team follow HACCP and food safety standards. Using the tools and equipment provided.
To train and develop the team within the kitchen so that a talent pipeline exists for future progression, the company host chef development courses such as The Chef Development Programme and we host internal competitions.
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.Some of the great benefits of working for us include:
Earn thousands by referring a friend to work with us
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
Company Pension Scheme, Life assurance & Wellbeing support
28 days holiday entitlement including bank holidays, increasing with service to a maximum of 33 days (we even offer Wedding Leave too)
The opportunity to work for a well-respected brand where people development is at the heart of our culture
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
Leo Points - earn performance based points and use them towards that desired product you've been meaning to buy or hey even that well deserved day off!!
Employee of the month earning you a little bonus and fame for that entire month.
Flexible working hours- shift working is what we do but not split shifts - we want you to have a work-life balance too
Uniform & Meals on duty
Monthly / Quarterly engagement activities - we like to have fun while working hard
Annual Charity Event Day- we help and support our communities
Lots of locations in the UK and Ireland which mean that if you want to develop or just fancy a change of scenery, we can help you to move and provide relocation support
Leonardo Royal Hotel Southampton Grand Harbour West Quay Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 1AG
Job RefJI22553
BranchLeonardo Royal Hotel Southampton Grand Harbour
LocationSouthampton
Salary/BenefitsCompetitive Salary
Contract typePermanent
HoursFull Time
Hours per week40
Date posted18/03/2024
Closing date02/05/2024
About Leonardo Royal Hotel Southampton Grand HarbourA 15-minute walk from Southampton City Art Gallery, this upscale, modern hotel with a sloping glass facade is 0.8-mile walk from the Mayflower Theatre. Stylish rooms have free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Some add sea views. Upgraded rooms include sitting areas and balconies, while suites add kitchenettes and/or whirlpool tubs. There's a relaxed restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows, and a glass-covered bistro/bar with a terrace. Other amenities include a gym, an indoor pool and spa facilities, plus parking (fee). Day-use rooms, a lounge and ship transfers (fee) are available for cruise passengers.About Leonardo HotelsAt Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality.Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK & Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993! With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.As an employer we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality- it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values: Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and WillingAt Leonardo Hotels each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations!We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system- these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off!
