Apprentice Chef – The View at Seaford Head

Do you have a passion for food and cookery that you would like to do for living? Are you keen to learn a life skill and develop your career? Are you looking to join a friendly team which focuses on getting the job done well and actually enjoying yourself too? This could be the position for you!

The View is a bar, restaurant and function venue that is set in the grounds of Seaford Head Golf Course. We are looking for an Apprentice Chef to join our kitchen team of four, catering from breakfast through to dinner for walk in customers, users of the Golf Course, private events, business functions and more.

Ideally you will have had some exposure to the requirements of working in a kitchen, through this having an understanding of the tasks at hand and now looking to begin your career and gain a qualification.

In return for an enthusiastic and loyal apprentice, The View will meet the costs of training, provide support and assistance to you at all times, offer generous staff benefits (including up to 50% off food and refreshments!) and give you the opportunity to learn and develop in a welcoming and challenging kitchen atmosphere, with a very enthusiastic and passionate Head Chef and kitchen team to support you on your development journey.

You will study towards a Commis Chef Level 2 NVQ, which is a dual delivery apprenticeship and will require some attendance at the Eastbourne campus of Sussex Downs Collge. So, in two years’ time you could be Level 2 qualified, have a whole range of skills learned and achievements on your cv and have created a memorable start to your chefs’ career within a great team!

You will work 37 hours per week over five days, across Monday to Sunday, and will receive a very generous holiday entitlement of 31 days per year. You will begin on £5.50 per hour and, providing you are on target, this will rise after six months and then again when you enter the second year of your apprenticeship.

For further information on this opportunity or an application form, please contact Craig Nicol, General Manager at The View, on 01323 890 139 or by email to craig.nicol@the-view.co.uk

Deputy Head Greenkeeper - Seaford Head Golf Course

Full time, permanent basis. SCP 22-25 (£21,074-£23,111 per annum)

Seaford Head Golf Course is looking to recruit a full time Deputy Head Greenkeeper to join our skilled and experienced team, helping ensure the course is presented, maintained and developed to a consistently high level.

Are you an enthusiastic and motivated individual? Are you driven by delivering a course presented at a its highest possible standard and proving an exciting and challenging play for golfers? Set atop the clifftops, Seaford Head Golf Course is renowned amongst players as a stimulating course for golfers of all abilities, with its stunning land and seascapes and its pure resilience; the course regularly remains open 364 days a year, withstanding the natural elements and just recently, even managing to stave off the drought thanks to the careful management and feeding regime by the greenkeeping team.

Working under the direction of the Head Greenkeeper with over 18 years’ service at the course and an Assessor qualification, you will be contributing to the ongoing development of this fantastic course and helping manage the four-strong team. If you have 5+ years’ greenkeeping experience, are qualified in the safe use and application of pesticides and hold a Level 3 qualification (or are working towards this), this could be the role for you.

The role is on a full time, permanent basis, for 37 hours per week Monday to Friday, with occasional weekend rota work and seasonal adjustments to core hours for summer and winter. The Council will provide full uniform and PPE required in the line of your duties.

In exchange for all that you bring to the role, the Town Council offers a variety of benefits including enhanced annual leave entitlements, enhanced parental leave policies, membership of BIGGA, membership of the generous Local Government Pension Scheme (with a 17.4% employer contribution), discount at local health centre and gym Wave Leisure, membership to online discount platform Perkbox and discount on food and refreshments at The View (all alongside a fantastic course to play golf on!).

For an application pack and full details of the role, please see below or if you have any course or job specific questions, please do drop an email to the Head Greenkeeper at simon.lambert@seafordtowncouncil.gov.uk

Closing date for applications: Monday 22 October 2018 at midday

Interview date: Wednesday 31 October 2018

Application Pack:

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