I have now been back at the Chefs In Scotland offices for 4 weeks and have found myself getting back into the swing of things in regards to sourcing chefs for all over Scotland. I have found that when any positions are being registered in places such as Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen area etc – the candidates are coming flooding in. The amount of interest in working in the cities is a considerable amount. The amount of applications we get for the more rural areas in Scotland is considerably less. I myself being born and bred on the Isle of Harris, can understand that living and working in rural areas isn’t everyone’s idea of where they would like to work. We get a lot of jobs registered in rural areas and find that there is always positions available in these areas. When I am doing a search on the database for a rural area – at times there are very few candidates that would like to be placed in that kind of location which can be frustrating (especially on a day like today when it’s only lunchtime and my printer has broken down!) yet I have still managed to get 4 CVS out for rural areas and 2 adverts. What is everyone’s thoughts on working in rural areas? Do you currently work in a rural location and can’t imagine working in a city?
Alannah Morrison
Friday morning again and a frosty one we have in Moffat.
Relief chefs out at the moment are
Steve Moffat at Bayswell Hotel, Rene La Barre at Hilton Edinburgh Airport, Chris Roberti at Gartmore House, Alan Baird at Links Hotel, Mick Kitson at The Dryfesdale Hotel, Michal Buczkowski at the Tongue Hotel, Mark Murray at Dryburgh Abbey Hotel, Ben Mailer at The Dryfesdale Hotel, Stuart MacColl at the Bridge Hotel Buttermere, Jamie Atkinson and Kenny Bruce at The Caledonian Hotel in Dumfries, Andras Rethi at Burts Hotel,Vytis Baltrunas at The Bothy Bistro in Burghead, peter Norrie at Grant Arms Hotel in Monymusk, Dale Paton at Auchen Castle Hotel, Sarah Pozzi at Duisdale, Jenny Quashie at Mackays Hotel and Michael Njoroge at The Newton Hotel.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Have a great day.
We still have around 20 chefs out on relief at the moment.
We have met a few chefs here in Moffat this week and still very keen to keep on meeting relief chefs and permanent chefs.
I know our relief chefs are waiting patiently for relief jobs to come in and hopefully this will be very soon.
We will start looking at taking new relief chefs on around Mid-March, all you need to do is email a copy of your updated CV along with recent contactable work references. jojo@chefsinscotland.co.uk
Relief chefs get £11 - £17 per hour paid net of tax and NI, return travelling expenses once there and once home either at 30p per mile or at cost price by public transport (bus or train) clean single accommodation at no charge (this may be in the hotel or staff accommodation) and you will get a minimum of 40 hours per week pro rata over 5 days.
Thanks for all your hard work and continued support.
There are over 20 relief chefs out working in Scotland and the north of England.
I will be calling some of the relief chefs we have marked available to invite to Moffat to meet at our office as we would like to have met all relief chefs we are looking to get out this season.
We are free most days Monday to Friday and can be flexible on times to meet.
Michael George was down in Lockerbie at The Townhead Hotel, Jamie Atkinson and Kenny Bruce are both in Dumfries at The Caledonian Hotel, Jason Paxton is at the Links Hotel, Stuart MacColl was at The Creggans Inn, Andras Rethi is at Burts Hotel, Graham McLeish is at Drovers Inn near Loch Lomond, Vytis Baltrunas is at The Bothy Bistro, Mark Murray is at Springkell, Peter Norrie is back at The Grant Arms in Monymusk, Alan Baird was in Dollar at The Kings Seat Restaurant, Gary Imlach was back at Ardvasar Hotel in Skye, Sarah Pozzi is also back in Skye at The Duisdale Hotel, Michael Njoroge is at The Newton Hotel, Dale Paton and Jonny Lewis are helping out at The Dryfesdale along with John Taylor, Gareth Connelly is at The Kingsmills Hotel, Shaun Murray is at Cross Keys in Kelso and Jenny Quashie is back at Mackays Hotel in Wick.
Thanks to everyone for your continued support and hard work
Happy New Year to you all.
January is a quiet month for relief.
We do have the odd job coming in but more area specific.
Over the festive period we got out Dale Paton to Ardlui Hotel, Graham Smith to Shieldaig Lodge, Sarah Jeffrey and Lauran Galloway to Aysgarth Falls, Mark Murray and Stuart MacColl to The Kingsmills Hotel, Ally Bell to The Wheatsheaf in Swinton, Daniel Haig at Grant Arms Hotel, Shaun Murray at The Cross Keys in Kelso, Mark Shaw at Auchrannie, Glyn Musker at The Morritt, Kieran Grant and Jason Keenan at The Caledonian Hotel in Dumfries, Andrew Brown at The Links Hotel, Ally Caldwell at The Creggans Inn, Andras Rethi and Gary McGirr at The Steadings in Kirkcaldy, Ionel Rizea at Foxtons, Peter Norrie at Loch Insh Watersports Centre, Jason Paxton at Old Bridge Inn, Stephen Kessell at Eden Court Theatre, Jan Provaznik at Duisdale, Michael Pallister at Springkell, Alan Baird at Mustard Seed, Gary MicGirr at Allan Ramsay Hotel, David Ironsite at Pittodrie House Hotel, Sara Jayne Moffat at Lodge at Carfraemill, Graham Smith at Skeabost Hotel and Derrick Bartley at Creggans Inn.
We are nearly finished with our refurbishments and we will look to meet relief chefs again from week starting 16th January, if you are currently doing relief work with us or are looking to start then please give us a call and we can our availability.
Thanks again for all your hard work and continued support.
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