Careers: Departments
Kitchen
Hazlewood Castle has two head chefs. The banqueting head chef heads
up a small team which concentrates on 150 weddings a year and conferences
and events which comprises of banquets, functions and dinners to
the tune of over £1m.
They work from comprehensive and detailed conference and banqueting
menus which can be found on the website, and the food service is
based around a fully plated Hobart regeneration system.
Shifts and duties are dictated by the business.
Second head chef's position oversees Restaurant Anise. The traditional
kitchen is split up into pastry, larder, main course and vegetable
garnishing.. Examples of these menus are found on the Restaurant
Anise section of this website. The food is British European with
a little bit of fusion using fresh products and commodities. The
kitchen costs a quarter of a million pounds when Hazlewood opened
and presently boasts two rosettes.
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Restaurant Anise
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Reception
Unlike most hotels, this is not the hub of the business. With only
21 bedrooms and direct dial telephone system the focus of Reception
is all about bedrooms and their sales, maximising all the opportunities
with a big focus on efficiency and productivity.
The team have to all work off one hymn sheet, the pace can be either
slick and efficient or manic. Key hotspots are obviously heavy check-ins,
heavy check-outs with a big focus on zero defect and each member
of the team fulfilling that day's duties and not leaving them for
the next team member!
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Housekeeping
It's all out and about, stairs, corridors, left, right, up and
down, typical of a 1,000 year old building. Accommodation split
into two areas, St Margaret's an annexe, which is suites and bedrooms
and then the main Castle where the rooms are varying in size with
interesting characteristics. All the accommodation is named after
plants and flowers, and each bedroom has a bespoke recipe written
for customers to take away. Further information available on the
accommodation section of the website.
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Conference & Banqueting
Deals with conferences, weddings, gatherings, meetings, dinners,
events, car launches, christenings, you name it. Big strong leadership,
dynamic management, large responsibility. This is where Hazlewood
is judged more than anywhere. Aided with a team of casuals this
department uses the majority of the Castle and runs as a separate
entity to other departments.
The season starts in March and rolls right through apart from a
couple of gaps, until 31st December. Very busy, back to back, large
numbers. Forward planning isn't optional. Further information on
the Hazlewood Castle website.
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Concierge
This is where first impressions count. This department has to be
everywhere all at once. Ensuring that the residents arrive and depart,
assisting with baggage, dealing with wedding guests, mother-in laws,
wedding cakes, hustle and bustle of parking cars, last minute room
service and a general affray of all sorts of weird and wonderful
requests and subjects.
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Sales
A department of constant activity with a buzzing atmosphere, the
sales office is the life line of the Castle, producing the sales
for not only conference and banqueting but Restaurant Anise, the
list is endless, our duties range from co-ordinating events such
as conferences and weddings to telesales to client entertaining
and even telling the other departments what to do!!
This thriving department is very financially aware, we are target
driven and we aim to achieve our highest goals.
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Information for Accounts, Administration,
Night Porters, Gardeners, Maintenance andManagement to be added
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