Chef de Partie
Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint a full time, permanent Chef de Partie to join our busy, friendly Catering team, providing a first class service for our college community. The successful candidate will assist the Head Chef and Head of Catering Services in providing high quality meals to our community and conferencing customers, in compliance with Food and Safety Regulations and College polices.
This role is varied, offering a broad range of cooking opportunities from every day College meals for students and conference guests through to fine dining for more formal events. Full training is available to support the successful candidate's professional development.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have breadth of experience, skills and achievements gained from working within a hotel, restaurant or contract catering environment.
- Have the ability to work as a team member cooking and presenting the required quantity of high quality and nutritious food according to menu and recipe specifications.
- Be able to prepare a wide variety of delicious and well presented meals.
- Be successful in assisting with stock rotation of all foodstuffs. To label, date and properly store all foodstuffs in appropriate storage areas.
- Carry out duties in adherence to the College Food Hygiene Policy, and current Food Hygiene and Health and Safety legislation.
Please see the candidate pack for further information on the role and its responsibilities.
Working arrangements
The full time hours are 40 hours per week, to be worked on a shift basis, including evenings and weekends.
Employment arrangements
- This is a permanent appointment (subject to a three month probation period).
- Competitive salary of £31,000 - £34,000 FTE, depending on skills and experience.
- Please visit the 'Join our Team'page for further details on our staff benefits.
Application process
In order to apply, please submit a completed application form and send it along with a covering letter or email, outlining your suitability for the role. Please also complete and submit an Equality and Diversity monitoring form. If you would like to complete paper forms, please contact the HR team and arrange a time to collect documents from College.
All documents should be emailed to the HR team at: recruitment@caths.cam.ac.uk.
The closing date for completed applications is 10am on Wednesday 15 July 2026
Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 20 July 2026
Please note: Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are only able to contact candidates selected for an interview.