Job Description

Job Ref:

JI27658

Branch:

Hotel Gotham

Location:

Hotel Gotham, Manchester

Salary/Benefits:

Competitive Salary

Contract type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full Time

Hours per week:

40

Posted date:

26/08/2025

Closing date:

28/09/2025

Be Yourself - Be Leonardo

Here at Leonardo Hotels, we are recruiting for an Apprentice- Commis Chef to join our great team in The Kitchen. We are looking for an enthusiastic, genuine and friendly person who really enjoys working in hotels and wants to provide great hospitality to our guests, contributing to them having a Happy stay with us.

As an Apprentice Commis Chef

We want you

to be part of a great and diverse team working together to provide great hospitality and products to our guests in the Kitchen. We set high standards for ourselves so that we can surprise and delight our customers and deliver a great experience.

What we want you to

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Be flexible - to enjoy working different shift patterns and seeing the operation on different days of the week including the weekends, we don't operate split shifts. Be standards and detail driven to meet the menu specifications Be aware of hygiene and cleanliness standards and assist in meeting these. Be a team player- interact and communicate with the kitchen and restaurant team and sometimes guests if you are front of house.

The job -

To contribute to the best of your ability to the production of food items. To ensure all dishes are prepared in a timely fashion and to the appropriate agreed standard. To be familiar with the menu of the day and know your responsibilities in accordance with the menu. To ensure excellent food hygiene practice is observed in the entire food chain from storage through to preparation and service. To ensure HACCP compliance within the kitchen and all Food Beverage outlets. To avoid unnecessary wastage by observing proper control methods Ensure the kitchen equipment is in working order and report any maintenance issues To participate in training and want to be the best you can be in your role- there is a huge amount of training available to you if you want to build a career.

Why come and work for us

- to receive practical training, development and progression within a dynamic and rapidly expanding company. If you want a career in Hospitality then look no further, we have great programs to support your development towards a long and successful career.



Through the apprenticeship programme you can:


Gain training whilst you are employed and earning a wage Be trained to the national industry standard Benefit from coaching and mentoring from industry professionals Enhance your career prospects




Some of the great benefits of working for us include:


The opportunity to work for a well-respected brand where people development is at the heart of our culture. Leo Points - we reward your performance with points, and what does points make....PRIZES. Whether its love to shop vouchers or that well deserved day off, you choose! Stay at one of our Leonardo Hotels UK for a hugely discounted rate and get a reduced rate for friends and family if they want to stay too. Employee of the month earning you a little bonus and fame for that entire month. An array of learning courses in which you can attend - the sky is the limit with your development with us, we nourish your skills and talents to develop leaders of the future. Earn yourself thousands by referring a friend to work with us. Meals on duty. We have many locations in the UK and Ireland which means if you want to develop or just fancy a change of scenery, we can help you to move.. We help and support our local communities with lots of Charity Events throughout the year.

About Hotel Gotham

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Gotham is presented as a plush hotel, with an exclusive club bar and a fabulous dining venue. It can be an escape, a multisensory experience, and above all, a place to have fun.



Gotham is located at 100 King Street in the central conservation area and is housed in one of the city's grandest, listed buildings - a former premises of Midland Bank. Standing at the head of King Street, proudly atop the hill amidst architectural nods to the Grecian and Baroque, Hotel Gotham draws inspiration from these surroundings and rises up like an imposing castle of stone and steel. Designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1928 in the Art Deco style of the time, is it any wonder it was referred to as 'The King'? In terms of architecture, the neoclassical design is unusual for Manchester. But we quite like that. We celebrate difference at Gotham.

Behind the scenes

Hotel Gotham naturally draws attention to itself. It hit the national news in 2010 when it was alleged that safe deposit boxes containing jewellery and gold, not to mention master tapes from Joy Division and New Order recording sessions, were found on the site. Gotham was always going to be unpredictable and make a statement. It was always going to be a unique experience, a spectacular destination, with a taste for the theatrical. This is why we wanted to bring it to the Manchester Stage. At Gotham, we believe that luxury is as important as location and history. We believe style should complement substance, and we are not too taken by the idea of compromise. We don't see Gotham as your average hotel. From day one it was always going to be special. As Foo Foo Lammar once said 'If you're a star, why not twinkle.'

About Leonardo Hotels

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At Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality.



Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993! With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.



As an employer we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality- it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values:

Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and Willing

At Leonardo Hotels each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations!



We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system- these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off!