The Grand Hotel Birmingham
Breakfast Chef - Temporary to January 2027
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Job Title: Breakfast Chef
Overview
Mornings matter at The Grand Hotel Birmingham. As our Breakfast Chef, you'll help create a great start to every guest's day, preparing quality breakfasts with care while working as part of a supportive and professional kitchen team. If you enjoy working in a busy kitchen, take pride in producing consistently good food and thrive on early starts, we'd love to hear from you.
This is a temporary Breakfast Chef role until January 2027, with the potential to become a permanent position.
This role involves working 40 hours per week over 5 days with the typical shift pattern being 5:00am – 1:30pm to include weekends on a rota basis.
What You'll Be Doing
- Preparing and cooking breakfast dishes in line with our recipes and quality standards.
- Ensuring all dishes are prepared and served in a timely manner throughout breakfast service.
- Supporting the wider kitchen team with food preparation and general kitchen duties as required.
- Maintaining high standards of food safety, cleanliness and hygiene at all times.
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- Previous experience in a similar role within a busy kitchen is essential. Experience in a hotel kitchen would be an advantage.
- A genuine interest in producing quality food and delivering consistently high standards.
- Excellent food hygiene knowledge and a commitment to maintaining a clean and safe working environment.
- An level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate would be desirable.
- A positive attitude, a reliable approach and the ability to thrive with early starts.
If you're looking to join a friendly kitchen team where your work makes a difference to our guests every day, we'd love to hear from you.
Benefits
At the Grand Hotel Birmingham we make every effort to reward and recognise the loyalty and hard work you provide by offering the following:
- £13.96 per hour + Service Charge and Gratuities to further your earning potential.
- Stay at the Grand Hotel or other De Vere properties for as little as £50, with special rates for friends and family.
- Get 50% off food and drinks when you dine in Isaacs or Madeleine - or at any De Vere location.
- Explore our Exclusively Yours Benefits portal, unlocking hundreds of discounts on retail, travel, and leisure activities.
- Earn extra cash through our employee referral scheme.
- Free, freshly cooked meals from our chefs, available twice a day across service periods.
- Take advantage of our Employee Assistance Programme, Hospitality Action, providing 24/7 health and wellbeing support, including free counselling.
- We believe in celebrating your special moments too, which is why we offer an extra paid day off for your birthday, along with a £20 love to shop voucher.
- Inclusive multifaith prayer room accessible any time for all team members.
- Experience the flexibility and convenience of Wagestream, our financial wellbeing platform, granting you instant access to your pay when you need it.
- Regular team appreciation events and monthly recognition programmes.
- 28 days holiday each year (increasing annually up to 33 days) - based on pro-rata for the Temporary Role.
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