Chef

Were looking for a talented and passionate Chef to join the TRP culinary team and help energise our backstage food offer during an exciting time for our programme.

Working closely with our Lead Cook youll prepare fresh tasty hot and cold dishes for performers staff and guests all while delivering friendly top-tier service. Youll champion creativity in the kitchen contribute to menu ideas and take pride in creating food that fuels our theatre family all whilstmaintaining high standards of hygiene and safety.

TRP is a vibrant fast-paced and welcoming hospitality environment with big ambition and an evolving food offer and youll play a key part in shaping want someone whos ready to help us raise the curtain on the next act of our culinary story!

This is a permanent role working 30 hours per week across five 6-hour shifts with the possibility of overtime for holiday/sickness cover. Youll need full availability over the Christmas and New Year period.

Shifts may vary between 9am9pm and will be confirmed via rota. Some work may also take place at TR2our Production & Learning Centre atCattedown.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion at TRP with a workforce participants and audiences that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. The collective power of each team members life experiences knowledge innovation self-expression and talent creates the very best environment for us to achieve our ambitions and lead the recruiting for our team we recognise the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Roles and Responsibilities

You will:

• Prepare cook and serve delicious dishes for cast creatives and staff

• Run a smooth and welcoming Green Room service

• Step up to support the Lead Chef during annual leave

• Help design menus for events and visiting companies

• Keep kitchen and storage areas clean organised and sparkling

• Support with washing up and deep-cleaning duties

• Store portion and rotate ingredients to maintain quality

• Champion hygiene and food safety (HACCP & COSHH)

• Receive and manage deliveries safestorage and stock rotation

• Uphold high standards of presentation and consistency upholding the quality of the brand

• Serve staff and and cast in the Green Room with warmth and professionalism

• Use our EPOS system accurately

The Person

Our Values are at the heart of everything we say and do and our people demonstrate these values in every aspect of their work. To be successful in this role you should be able to demonstrate the following skills experience and behaviour in line with these values.

Quality

Taking pride in excellence.

• Strong attention to detail

• Delivers high-quality work on time

• Passionate about maintaining high standards

• Upholds 5* food hygiene standards & documentation

• Organised and reliable with strong time management

• Committed to learning and continual improvement

Collaboration

Valuing connection communication and teamwork.

• Clear confident communicator

• Builds strong working relationships

• Works flexibly and supports others

• Positive and cooperative approach

• Excellent organisation and personal time management skills

Creativity

Thinking imaginatively and bringing fresh ideas.

• Enjoy working as part of a team.

• Enjoys problem-solving and thinking differently

• Adapts well under pressure

• Open-minded and curious

• Contributes creative food ideas

• To consider creative solutions to the demands of service

Diversity

Celebrating individuality and respecting everyone.

• Welcomes all people with empathy and respect

• Works inclusively as part of a diverse team

• Diplomatic supportive and positive

• Passionate about contributing to TRPs inclusive culture

Were here to talk! Were available to speak to you before you make your application so if youre not quite sure if your skills match the role want to talk about how flexible working could support you or just check any of the details in this document please do email us on with subject line Chef Vacancy to arrange a chat.

As the largest and most well-attended regional producing theatre in the UK we present diverse productions on our three stages: The Lyric The Drum and The Lab. With a regional audience of over 2.1 million we employ over 300 dedicated staff including leading artists and craftspeople and attract over 300000 annual audience members.

Theatre Royal Plymouth is a registered charity inspiring a lifetime of creativity for audiences artists and participants throughout Plymouth and the wider region. As the principal home of performing arts in the South West we engage and inspire many communities creating memorable experiences for people from all backgrounds.

We do this by creating and presenting a breadth of shows on a range of scales with their extensive creative engagement programmes by embracing the vitality of new talent and supporting emerging and established artists and by collaborating with a range of partners to provide dynamic cultural leadership for the City of Plymouth.