Job Description
An opportunity to join our family where work is a pleasure.
The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. 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.
Salary: £40,000 per annum
SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.
Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.
Role : As a Head Pastry Chef, you will be working alongside Executive Chef to run our kitchen, which serves 2 restaurants, which are our Celebration Restaurant (3 rosettes) and our Casual Dining Restaurant.
You will be responsible for creating new desserts for both of our restaurants. Role includes, but not limited to:
1. Food ordering (Procure Wizard)
2. Food safety management
3. Leading the kitchen team
Qualifications
4. Bread making
5. Creation of afternoon teas
6. Dessert making
7. People management
8. Recipe creation
Additional Information
To say thank you, we have many perks :
9. Great salary package and benefits.
10. Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
11. 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.
12. We understand it’s 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.
13. We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
14. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
15. We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
16. 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.