Chef de Partie

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint a full time, permanent Chef de Partie to join our busy, friendly Catering team, providing a first class service for our college community.  The successful candidate will assist the Head Chef in providing high quality meals to our community and conferencing customers, in compliance with Food and Safety Regulations and College polices.

It is an exciting time for our College with the development of our ‘Central Spaces’ and later this year, the catering team will be moving into a new multi-million-pound kitchen, helping us to further improve our catering offer. 

The ideal candidate will:

• Have breadth of experience, skills and achievements gained from working within a hotel, restaurant or contract catering environment.
• Have the ability to work as a team member cooking and presenting the required quantity of high quality and nutritious food according to menu and recipe specifications.
• Be successful in assisting with stock rotation of all foodstuffs. To label, date and properly store all foodstuffs in appropriate storage areas.
• Carry out duties in adherence to the College Food Hygiene Policy, and current Food Hygiene and Health and Safety legislation.

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Staff Benefits

• Competitive FTE salary of £23,690 to £26,265 per annum.
• Annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year, in addition to 8 Public Holidays (pro rata for part-time employees).
• A free lunch in the College Dining Hall (when on main site) for those whose hours of work encompass a meal break.
• Generous defined contribution pension provision with salary sacrifice arrangements.
• Access to the College’s Cycle to Work voucher scheme.
• Opportunities for training and development.
• A range of family friendly benefits, including generous maternity and paternity benefits above statutory requirements
• Free use of a small on-site gym.
• Access to purchase the College’s private Health Care scheme.
• Access to staff wellbeing and employee assistance support.
• Free life assurance (death in service benefit) with probate and bereavement support.

Application process

In order to apply, please submit a completed application form  and send it along with a covering letter, outlining which role you are interested in, along with details of your suitability for the role.  Please also complete and submit a completed Equality and Diversity monitoring form.    All documents should be emailed to:  recruitment@caths.cam.ac.uk .

The closing date for completed applications is 9am on Tuesday 18 October 2022.

We reserve the right to close the application window if we receive a high number of applications so you are encouraged to apply early.