You love real cooking. We love real cooking. Customers love real cooking. It's a no-brainer so you wonder why so many other places don't do it. We do it, and you'll be doing it with us - fresh, customer-led, and with high-quality ingredients. As Sous Chef, you'll be the Head Chef's go-to for support, leading and engaging the kitchen team to deliver 14 great shifts week in, week out.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead shifts, ensuring the kitchen runs effectively and safely.
* Oversee stocks, Health & Safety, and Hygiene standards.
* Manning the pass to ensure our food goes out on-spec and on-time.
* Maintain high kitchen standards and practices.
* Demonstrate good chef/kitchen skills (food prep hot and cold, cleaning, knife skills, good hygiene practices).
* Play an active role in delivering excellent kitchen and food standards as part of a high-performing team.
* Make decisions in the absence of the Head Chef considering labour, stock, food safety requirements, and more.
* Manage stakeholders and build rapport and trust with Ops Chefs and Ops Managers.
* Demonstrate successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs, and Sous Chefs.
Minimum Requirements:
* Experience as a Sous Chef or Junior Sous Chef/Assistant Kitchen Manager.
* Strong knowledge of best practices around rota scheduling, sales and labour forecasts, reporting, recruitment, HR, etc.
* Extremely driven and relentless at deconstructing the can't mentality.
* Epic communication skills.
Benefits:
* Staff food on every shift.
* 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one.
* Paid breaks.
* 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata.
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years of service.
* The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest!
* Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all-expenses-paid trip with one of our suppliers).
* Company pension scheme.
* Long service awards.
* Power over your pay with Wagestream.
* Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity.
* Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast-growing business.
* Achievable bonuses.
* Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked.
* Christmas and Boxing Day off!
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