Chef in Plymouth

We are 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, you'll prepare fresh tasty hot and cold dishes for performers, staff, and guests, all while delivering friendly top-tier service. You'll champion creativity in the kitchen, contribute to menu ideas, and take pride in creating food that fuels our theatre family, all whilst maintaining 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 you'll play a key part in shaping it. This is a permanent role working 30 hours per week across five 6-hour shifts with the possibility of overtime for holiday/sickness cover. You'll need full availability over the Christmas and New Year period. Shifts may vary between 9am-9pm and will be confirmed via rota. Some work may also take place at TR2, our Production & Learning Centre at Cattedown.

Responsibilities:

• 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, safe storage, and stock rotation.
• Uphold high standards of presentation and consistency, maintaining the quality of the brand.
• Serve staff 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, enjoys working as part of a team, enjoys problem-solving and thinking differently, adapts well under pressure, open-minded and curious, contributes creative food ideas, considers 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 TRP's inclusive culture.

We're here to talk! We're available to speak to you before you make your application, so if you're 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 with the subject line 'Chef Vacancy' to arrange a chat.

The Company:

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 300,000 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 our 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.

The Benefits:

On Site Dining Facility, Local Business Discounts, Employee Assistance Programme.