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Location France Job type Seasonal Company Mountain Heaven Ltd Contact Nick Williams Sectors Catering, Hospitality, Other, Chalet Host Categories Ski Posted 02/04/2012 Expires 25/06/2012

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Job Description

Chalet Hosts required

We are now recruiting for catered Chalet hosts for our 8-10 person chalets in La Rosiere for next winter.

All our chalet hosts must have experience of cooking quality food for groups and you must be mature and outgoing. Whilst professional chefs are not required you must be able to cook high quality meals to a large number of people in one go! Of paramount importance is your ability to welcome the guests and keep them happy alongside doing the more mundane tasks such as keeping the chalet clean. 

We expect you to run and look after the chalets as if they were your own, although its hard work we do expect that you should be able to ski/snowboard on about 5 days during the week, both with the guests and by yourselves.

Skills and Experience Required

• Good communication and organisational skills
• Ability to cook high quality meals under a strict budget and for a large number of people sometimes with differing dietary requirements
• Ability to work very hard all season whilst remaining cheerful and courteous to all guests (even difficult ones!)
• To be clean, tidy and cheerful at all times
• You must be able to ski
• You must be computer literate and be able to use spreadsheets

Job Description

· Provide all meals to a high standard, 6 days per week. Meals to consist of breakfast, afternoon tea, children's high teas, when necessary and dinner (taking account of any special requirements such as vegetarian meals and allergies etc.)

· Presenting all meals in a careful and imaginative way

· Serving, clearing away and washing up

· Planning and Shopping for food

· Be responsible for ensuring that all budgets are adhered to and that all financial records are maintained for inspection

· Maintain adequate records for things such as tax de sejour payments

· Responsible for the overall cleanliness and presentation of the chalet on changeover day and throughout the week

· Ensure that excellent standards of hygiene and cleanliness are maintained in/around the chalet at all times

· Help to set up and close down the chalet at the start and end of the season

· Prepare laundry for collection /possibly help with delivery of laundry as required

· Clean as needed during the week.

· Take the guests skiing as a ski host (i.e. no instruction simply social skiing)

· Collect guests lift passes and take guests to lessons on the first day and to the ski hire shop.

. Keeping to all procedures and menu plans as laid down by Mountain Heaven limited

Notes:

You must have a UK NATIONAL INSURANCE NUMBER and a UK BANK ACCOUNT - do not apply unless you have these

In addition to a full CV you MUST send a covering letter stating why you want a job in the Alps and why you would want a job with Mountain Heaven Ltd. Failure to send this information will mean that your application will not be considered

Non smokers preferred