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Join Our Team as a Sous Chef
We love real cooking—fresh, customer-led, and made with high-quality ingredients. Customers love it too, and we do it differently. As a Sous Chef, you'll be the Head Chef's support, leading and engaging the kitchen team to deliver 14 great shifts week in, week out.
Your responsibilities include leading shifts, ensuring the kitchen runs effectively and safely, managing stocks, health & safety, hygiene, and maintaining 5-star kitchen standards. You'll be detail-oriented and proactive, always ensuring our food is on-spec and on-time.
The Good Stuff
* Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours!
* Staff food on every shift
* 50% off staff discount from day one
* 28 days holiday (including Bank Holidays), pro-rata
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years of service
* Exclusive staff events like Loungefest!
* Competitions and incentives, including all-expenses-paid trips
* Company pension scheme
* Long service awards
* Pay flexibility with Wagestream
* Support via the Licensed Trade Charity
* Opportunities for personal development and career growth
* Tips shared equally based on hours worked
* Christmas and Boxing Day off!
What You'll Bring
* Experience as a Sous Chef or a Junior Sous Chef/Assistant Kitchen Manager looking to advance
* Experience working with fresh ingredients and strong kitchen skills (food prep, hygiene, knife skills)
* A proactive work ethic, leading from the front to uphold high standards
* Driven and relentless in overcoming challenges
* Knowledge of KPIs and decision-making in the absence of the Head Chef regarding labour, stock, and food safety
* Excellent communication skills to manage stakeholders and build trust
* Knowledge of rota scheduling, sales, labour forecasts, reporting, recruitment, and HR
* Experience in training and recruiting kitchen staff, including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs, and Sous Chefs
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