Tattershall Lakes Country Park

Full Time – Permanent

Remuneration: £31,000 - £33,000 plus bonus

What we need in a nutshell

We are looking for process driven manager to lead our busiest venue on our busiest holiday park. Someone who has successfully managed a fast paced, high volume kitchen; someone who drives a culture of exceptional standards and delivers a consistent plate, no matter how busy.

 The successful manager will be someone who understands how to drive efficiencies and proactively manages their operation through periods of change. Working with their Food and Beverage Manager and Group Executive Chef, the successful kitchen manager will also have the opportunity to shape and grow an already very well-established team, menu and overall offer.

Who are we?

Set in the heart of Lincolnshire, you can switch off in an attractive environment of luxury accommodation, beautiful facilities and friendly staff. Perfect for adults and family breaks, use the swimming pool, dine in one of our amazing restaurants or explore your surroundings outside of the park. Expect some very special accommodation that no one else offers. We’ll have spacious lodges and holiday homes with hot tubs, beautifully landscaped areas for soaking up the sun as well your own parking spaces and WIFI!

To match the stunning environment, our entertainment will be beautifully crafted and delivered by our talented team. Cosy up under the blanket and watch a film on our outdoor cinema screen, enjoy acoustic vibes over a cocktail in our bar. For the kid’s there will be PLAY activities, water-based fun, bike hire and maybe even some Segway’s!’ 

What you’ll be doing

You will manage and inspire the kitchen team to produce brilliant meals to our high standards. This will include:

• Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities.
• Ensure consistency of quality of dishes before they reach the customer.
• Plan orders of equipment and ingredients, managing stock and wastage effectively.
• Remedy any problems or defects.
• Be fully in charge of managing and training kitchen staff.
• Oversee the work of the kitchen team.
• Recruit, develop, train, and maintain a successful team.
• Manage and review team workload to maximise efficiency and ensure standards.
• Implementation of all legislative measures and administration required by the current Food Hygiene, licensing, and collaboration and respect across the team.

You will lead from the front, setting the standards for your team and motivating, coaching and supporting them to be outstanding.

One more thing…holidays happen at holiday times and eating, and drinking goes on in into the night, so you’ll need to work your magic on bank holidays, evenings and weekends too. An all-day dining venue, Opening from 9am for breakfast and dinner service finishing at 9pm

Skills, experience, and qualities you’ll need.

Are you dynamic, determined, and enthusiastic? Do you thrive on providing memorable guest experiences and want to be part of a great team? These are the essential qualities for our kitchen manager. You will also have

• Communication skills through listening to customers, line manager, engaging and building a rapport with your team.
• Experience of working under pressure including managing a workload at busy times.
• An ability to build a commercial awareness and the experience of working in a commercial environment as well as becoming the best you can in your area of expertise.
• Knowledge of working with regulations such as health & safety, auditing, and making sure that colleagues understand them.
• Great leadership skills and the ability to build a high performing team in order to control, develop and improve all aspects of the kitchen including: P&L, yields, people, standards, legal compliance, service and brand integrity.
• An NVQ and relevant food hygiene certificates.

It’s about your values too. We have a can-do, fun loving, people centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes’ mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers – if that’s fired up your curiosity, have a read about it here and decide if it describes you.

Want to join our team? Here’s how to apply

Just click HERE and follow the instructions. To find out more about what it’s like to work for Away Resorts check us out at www.awayresorts.co.uk/careers.

Our Promise to You

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all!

We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors, to our teams we love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We’ll never accept any form of discrimination and we’ll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. Afterall, wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!

Good Luck!

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