Jobs and Volunteering

Chef de Partie

We are searching for experienced chefs to join our friendly and professional team at The Mill café and St Catherine’s Hospice.

Working 37.5 hours a week on a rota covering 5 days out of 7, our chefs enjoy a lot more free time compared to others in the industry, and much more sociable hours. We are passionate about making sure our chefs enjoy a satisfying and rewarding career whilst having a genuine work life balance.

You’ll also experience great variety – covering the café, our events and the hospice.

We are looking for someone with;

• Flair and imaginative outlook to food
• Positive attitude
• Great organisational skills
• Good communication skills
• Committed to delivering a high level of customer service
• Flexibility to respond to a range of different work situations
• Ability to work on your own or in teams

The Mill Café and Mill Outside is a social enterprise, with profits to St Catherine’s Hospice.

Benefits include:

• Ample free parking in the beautiful grounds of St Catherine’s Park
• Access to personal and professional development opportunities
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 36 days per year (inclusive of Bank Holidays) and an additional wellbeing day off for your birthday
• Competitive pension scheme, up to 8% employer pension contribution, life insurance and an employee assistance programme

For an informal discussion about the positions, please contact Nicola Hanmer, Commercial Catering Manager on 01772 629171

Please forward your CV and a covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the person specification to recruitment@stcatherines.co.uk

We may choose to close this vacancy if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Interviews to be held : w/c 7th October 2024

The purpose of this rewarding volunteering role is to provide administration assistance to the team.

Duties include:
• Answering telephone enquiries
• Use of ResDiary online booking system for the Mill Café
• Printing function sheets, menus and other necessary paperwork
• Typing rotas
• Some cash handling / taking telephone card payments
• Inputting data
• Ad hoc miscellaneous administration tasks

Please click here for more details and to apply

We’re recruiting a bank kitchen porter to join the team at The Mill, The Mill Outside and St Catherine’s Hospice. This rewarding role offers great variety and more sociable hours compared to many in catering, as well as the chance to use your skills to make a difference to an important local charity.

A kitchen porter is a crucial part of every kitchen to help the kitchen run successfully. The kitchen porter’s main duties will involve washing up, cleaning and possibly basic food preparation tasks. During busy periods, the kitchen porter will need to be well organised and work fast to keep the pots and pans clean for the chefs.

The duties include unloading and putting away stock correctly, keeping the kitchen clean, emptying bins, sweeping and mopping floors. The kitchen porter will make sure all the equipment is put away correctly, the washing up of pans, pots and operating the dishwasher machine.

Our welcoming Café Assistants support the catering staff in the day-to-day running of our busy public café – taking orders, making drinks, serving customers, and carrying out cleaning duties in the café and kitchen.

We are searching for engaging, courteous catering staff to join the team to help with our expanding events business at the Mill Outside & at the Mill Café.

You will be passionate about food, beverage & customer service. Our Outside Catering Service can cater for all types of events including Weddings, Anniversaries, Corporate events, Parties, Christmas & Baby Showers etc.

Shifts on Weekends & evenings, additional weekday shifts available over holiday periods.

We operate a fast paced environment delivering excellent customer service in a friendly professional manner.

Previous experience is preferred. Applicants must have an eye for detail & a desire to maintain high standards.

Individuals would be required to work on their own initiative & as part of a tea

Delivering a 5 star level of customer service to visitors to The Mill café & the Mill Outside customers. Working as part of a busy team of front of house staff on food & bar operations. To succeed you should be committed to providing customers with excellent service. You should be positive, friendly, knowledgeable, & polite.

A social enterprise, with profits to St Catherine’s Hospice.

See the job description 

Please forward your CV and a covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the person specification to recruitment@stcatherines.co.uk

We may choose to close this vacancy if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.