About The Role
Chef De Partie
Full Time
Permanent 40hrs
Salary – £26,208 + 12% Annualised Hours Payment
Onsite accommodation and subsidised food available whilst on shift
Location – Kielder Waterside, Northumberland
About The Role
We have two fantastic opportunities for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our award-winning team at Kielder Waterside as Commis Chefs. This is your chance to become part of a dynamic team that creates memorable, “wow” experiences for every guest. Whether they’re visiting for the day or staying with us longer.
As a Commis Chef, you’ll support the Head Chef and Sous Chef in delivering exceptional food and beverage services. Your role will involve everything from assisting with menu development and food preparation to maintaining cleanliness, handling kitchen operations, supporting point of sale, managing stock, and even cashing up when needed. Every task you take on will help ensure that our guests enjoy fresh, high-quality meals in a welcoming environment.
You’ll also help deliver services in line with our schedules and standards, and play a part in upholding the highest levels of food hygiene and regulatory compliance by actively monitoring and reporting on key checks.
We’re looking for someone who brings energy, professionalism, and a genuine passion for Kielder. You’ll be a strong communicator, a creative thinker, and a detail-oriented team player who’s eager to learn and grow. For added convenience, on-site accommodation may be available during shift patterns.
If you’re ready to kick-start your culinary journey in one of the most beautiful locations in the UK, we’d love to hear from you.
About You
The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, someone who’s self-motivated, creative, and takes pride in delivering outstanding service with a sharp eye for detail.
This is a hands-on role so you will be highly organised and hardworking and ready to embrace the flexibility needed to work weekends, late nights, bank holidays, and other unsociable hours as part of the leisure and hospitality industry.
Given the nature of the role in our food and beverage team, you’ll need an NVQ qualification in a relevant discipline, such as food and beverage services, hospitality, or customer service. Naturally, strong cooking skills and confidence in preparing a variety of meals are essential.
We’re also looking for someone with a Level 2 Food Safety qualification, excellent culinary ability, and a solid understanding of food and beverage products. A good awareness of key nutritional considerations is important too, as we strive to offer both quality and care in every dish we serve.
Here at Northumbrian Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.
Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.
We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.
Please note this role will requires a DBS to be completed prior to employment
NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.
About Us
Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply
NWG At a Glance:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.
We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.
We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.
Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.
Our Benefits
We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:
- Generous holiday entitlement starting at 23 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
- Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
- Free access to local attractions.
- A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
- Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
- Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
- Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
- Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.
This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.
Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.
Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked
About Us
NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.
We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
