Chef

At Crealy, we’re excited to grow our team! We’re seeking individuals to join our dynamic and supportive workplace. You’ll enjoy fantastic rewards such as Friends and Family passes, discounted tickets, flexible schedules, and excellent opportunities for career growth.

We are looking for a friendly and versatile chef with experience running a kitchen and producing high-quality food.

Duties will vary from cooking our traditional home-cooked pub menu in our Clubhouse located at our holiday resort to fresh dishes to support the theme park food offerings. You will have a role in staff planning, supervision, and training, plus stock control, stock taking, and ensuring all company health and hygiene practices are adhered to. You will manage designated areas in line with all relevant H&S and Food Policy legislation and ensure that profit is being maximised in all areas of your control.

Unlike many High street or other theme park operations, we design all our menus and concepts in-house, and in your role, you would have the opportunity to be involved in this aspect of our constant strive to improve our food offering.

You will be expected to:

· Provide assistance in designing new menus to coincide with the seasons, Summer, Winter, Spring and Autumn.

· Ensure stock rotation in the fridges and constant waste reduction i.e., minimising over-ordering.

· Do daily preparation and training of staff on the new dishes.

· Supervise team, and you are expected to lead by example i.e., working efficiently and keeping the kitchen a safe environment to work in.

· Check the freshness of food and ingredients

· Cook customers’ orders according to their preferences.

· Ensure uniform serving sizes and quality of meals.

· Inspect supplies, equipment, and work areas for cleanliness and functionality.

· Train, and supervise our F&B team members in the kitchen.

· Follow food safety best practices and ensure that all team are compliant.

· Act with appropriate caution in a dangerous environment where there are knives and high-temperature surfaces.

· Come up with new ideas and specialties that tempt guests into our food venues.

· Determine how much food to order and maintain an appropriate supply withing company guideline.

· Be flexible to take on extra duties when necessary.

We also cater for corporate and other events throughout the year.

Our Business Hours for Food Service are 8am – 10:30pm to match our Theme Park and Holiday Park operations. Please note – this role requires you to be available to work weekends, early mornings, evenings, during school holiday periods, and bank holidays, although we can be flexible in the shift patterns if necessary.

We are looking for a confident person who has excellent communication skills and is interested in working as part of a wider team to drive high standards and deliver a first-class guest experience. You should be highly driven and motivated to take ownership of your daily tasks while supporting the wider resort as part of this integral team.

We believe in "Warm & Welcoming" service, creating "Great Spaces", making things "Easy for All", and delivering "Moments of Joy". If you share our values and love working in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment, we’d love to hear from you.

You will need to have proof of right to work in the UK (either a birth certificate or current passport) and be able to provide details of a reference. Please ensure you have both before applying.