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Family Cook - South Kensington - Immediate start
This is a lovely role working 5 days per week with evenings and weekends expected - Salary up to £70K
If you have experience in creating healthy family meals and are looking for an exciting cooking role, we'd love to hear from you. In this role you'll be responsible for preparing 5 days of meals per week for our family of 5, with evenings and weekends expected.
We are seeking someone who is passionate about cooking, has great attention to detail, and enjoys creating nutritious and delicious meals. If this sounds like you, please submit your application to info@westbeachrecruitment.com
Professional Housekeeper required in Beautiful Lewes, Sussex.
We are assisting a family find a dedicated and professional live in Housekeeper. The family have three school aged children aged 11, 12 and 14 years, who attend different schools and various activities.
Candidates must be child friendly and be happy to help, support and encourage positive development in a gentle and proactive way. The parents are hands on but would like the new housekeeper to help with school runs etc so a confident driver with a clean driving licence is essential.
The family have dogs and cats, animal friendly essential.
The family are based in the beautiful area of Lewes, the residence is a 10-bedroom house set in lovely grounds. There are other staff including a cleaner, but the family are hoping to find a professional Housekeeper who has the right skill set to become the House Manager when the family spend half the week in another residence.
Candidates must be willing to be flexible, offer support to principles and staff, be able to liaise with contractors, other staff, and any outside maintenance persons.
Candidates must be/have:
Clean Drivers Licence
Excellent checkable references
Able to manage the family home if required.
Have good communication skills.
Ideally a knowledge of first aid
Good cooking skills
Reliability
Duties will include:
Managing laundry and linens
Keeping stocks replenished
Keeping all areas clean and organised to a high standard.
Wardrobe management
Cooking, home cooked nutritious meals on occasion
Errands and shopping
The family are easy going and are keen to find the perfect match. Only long term, friendly and warm candidates need apply.
· Live in with separate accommodation.
· Professional and reliable Housekeeper
· Excellent communication skills
· Driver, Child friendly and confident with Dogs
·Salary:40-45K plus 2-bedroom private accommodation within the residence grounds.
GARDENER, HANDYMAN, DRIVER - Godalming, Surrey
An UHNW family are looking for a gardener, handyman, driver to join the estate team at their large 5-bedroom house set in 17 acres of mature gardens near Godalming, Surrey.
The candidate will have a can do attitude and turn their hand to all aspects of gardening and estate maintenance, including the use of all types of garden machinery. If you have Gardening / Machinery qualifications the better.
The candidate will also carry out some driving duties for the family, driving onto London, Belgravia on errands to their other residence, airport drop offs and pick ups, therefore a confident driver with a clean driving license is essential.
There are a number of staff employed on the estate so a happy pleasant easy to get on with personality is essential.
Monday - Friday 8am-4pm with some Saturday working when family are in residence.
Salary negotiable and package will include pension scheme and other benefits.
Checkable references and willingness to complete NDA are essential
Rural Hampshire - Live-in, Private Chef / Cook for Country Estate
Family Description and Location
This is a lovely job for a country loving Private Chef / Cook to work for a very nice British family who live near to Liphook in Hampshire. You would be cooking for the Principals their daughter and her partner, and one of the Principal’s parents and their guests. Not everyone lives on the estate full time, but various family members come and go. You will need to be a driver for this role – car provided for when you are on duty. There are other staff on the estate including an Estate Manager, Gardeners a live in couple. and a live out Housekeeper who comes in to help. Job Description The role will include preparing cooking Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for the household on a daily basis (five days a week). The principals like modern style food, using healthy fresh ingredients, well presented. They do like to eat as a family but it may also be necessary to produce meals at different times. They would also like you to be able to do your own menu plans, including times when the family are entertaining guests. You will also need to prepare food to be served on your days off. The family have a lovey kitchen garden and you would be able to use all produce as well as make jams and jellies etc. There is a full chef’s kitchen fully equipped with thermomix etc
Candidate Requirements
It is essential that you have worked as a Private Chef / Cook, in a similar country role for at least 3 years with suitable references. You must come from a private household background we will not accepting application from hotels or restaurants. Menu plans will need to be provided. You will need to have a clean driving licence and be able to travel with the family to London, Scotland and South of France for all major holidays. You must provide menu and food photos upon application.
Days of Work, Accommodation and Salary
One-bedroom flat newly decorated away from the main house (pets and partners will be considered on a case-by-case basis, not suitable for dependents)
Your working hours will be 8.30 am start and finishing from 5.30 to 7.30 with a 2.5-hour break in the day and your days off are midweek, flexible. (with weekends free when the family are travelling)
Salary will be up to £65,000 negotiable per annum. Dependent of experience and references.
PLEASE do not apply if you do not have a valid UK work visa.