Job description
Head Chef
About us:
Vibrant, beautifully stylish and sensitively restored to its former Glory, Hort’s Townhouse celebrates the best of premium British pubs complete with 19 beautiful boutique bedrooms set across 2 floors.
Whether you’re visiting for a memorable breakfast before exploring the City, lunch with friends, after-work drinks and cocktails or to lay your weary head in one of our boutique bedrooms, whatever the occasion Hort’s Townhouse guarantees a warm welcome and home away from home.
Our seasonal menus and daily specials champion the best produce from across Britain, a blend of nostalgic classics and premium well-loved pub dishes. Behind the bar, you will find extensive drinks ranging from fairtrade coffee, to extensive wines, local beers and ales and perfectly mixed cocktails.
Ascend the stairs to uncover our 19 fabulously furnished bedrooms, individually designed, they offer a vibrant and colourful stay with smart in-room tech, sustainable toiletries and memorable treats and touches.
What we offer ourHead Chefs:
1. Head Chefs get to have full autonomy to createyour own menus and specials
2. Access to our Apprenticeship Scheme and Development Programmes
3. Access to regular culinary masterclasses covering topics such as Game, Butchery and Shellfish
4. Access to inspirational food trips with our top quality suppliers
5. Regular Chef Forums with other Head Chefs to inspire and develop
6. Free meals
7. 20% discount in all Young’s pubs and hotels
8. Share save Scheme
9. Company Pension Scheme
10. 28 Days Holiday per year
What we look for in aHead Chef:
This rolerequires someone that can inspire a team, to bring out the potential and leadby example whilst being able to develop, cost and produce fresh seasonal menusfor the variety of revenue streams within the business.
11. Have experience championing excellent servicethrough quality food either as a Head Chef or in the position of Sous Chef
12. Demonstrate a passion for leading and developinga team
13. Be an active hands-on team player withexcellent communication skills
14. Be responsible and able to manage the kitchenstaff rota, training and all health and safety effectively at all times
15. Be able to demonstrate your creativity andability to design and deliver new dishes for our menus and daily specials
16. Demonstrate great planning and organisationalskills, necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP andlabour
17. Have a pro-active approach to driving salesand delivering growth, through engagement with both kitchen and front of houseteams