Head Chef - Live in option available
Are you looking to put the freshness back into your chef life? Do you have a passion for great food and the drive to build and inspire your team?
Chilled Pubs are on the search for a Head Chef to join their ever-growing family. With ample opportunities on the horizon, this could be the perfect company to evolve in your career. Ready to re-ignite your fire?
Think……towering burgers, wood fired pizza, giant swinging skewers, sweet bao buns, and home-made Italian gelato. An extensive fresh food menu requires top talent to deliver top-notch, quality food. Sound good?
What the role entails?
* Food safety is a number 1 priority across Chilled Pubs. You must ensure your kitchen is always kept fully compliant to retain our 5-star food hygiene rating. Working closely with our leadership team & the local EHO, you will attend a monthly ‘food safety’ review to ensure we have industry-leading standards to protect our teams and our guests.
* Ensuring your kitchen team are fully trained and confident to deliver consistent, quality, high-standard food in line with our company specs.
* Leading from the front, building a strong and successful partnership with your Sous Chef to create a positive and engaged kitchen team.
* Managing all areas of the kitchen, including stock counting & reporting, margin control, and stock analysis.
* Managing staffing levels and creating rotas to maximize the efficiency of our kitchens.
* Growing your kitchen team and inspiring our next generation of chefs by having a pro-active approach to their development and career progression. Providing regular and honest feedback, conducting 1-1s, and identifying areas of improvement.
* Menu development - taking an interest in continuous improvement, presenting your and your team's ideas at our quarterly cook-offs.
Who are we looking for?
* A passion for great food – it is important you’re a foodie – we love food and want to work with like-minded people that share our passion.
* A natural leader, confident to motivate and inspire their team in a high volume, fast-paced environment.
* A passionate chef, driven to deliver high standards and quality, ensuring the food is made and presented to an exceptional level and kitchen cleanliness remains a top priority.
* An emotionally intelligent and strong leader, with excellent communication skills, who can positively manage and develop their team.
* Enthusiastic about your own personal growth and development.
* Somebody who naturally aligns with our values, which are being warm & friendly and genuinely ’guest obsessed.’
* An energetic person, driven to consistently provide a 'WOW' service for all our guests.
* Due to the high-volume environment, we require somebody who has at least 2 years of experience at a minimum of Sous Chef level in a fresh food restaurant.
* Somebody with a flexible approach to work; this isn’t a typical 9-5 role, and both evening and weekend work will be required.
What’s in it for you?
* A competitive & industry-leading salary is available for this position, dependent on previous experience.
* 28 days paid holiday.
* A structured working week with Wednesday & Thursday as your days off.
* Christmas and New Year’s Day off, every year!
* Your birthday is a PAID DAY OFF.
* Up to 70% discount across all Chilled Pubs.
* A sociable team where you'll become part of the family.
* Instant access to Wage-Stream (you can access your salary early essentially).
* Monthly incentives, yearly ‘Dennis Awards’ dinners, and company-wide competitions to win tickets to some of the biggest music shows in the UK.
* Pension scheme (opt in / out) available after 3 months employment.
* Career development opportunities – whether this is in-house, externally delivered training programmes, or via our Apprenticeship partner (Lifetime), we have a real appetite at Chilled Pubs to ‘grow our own’ future leaders.
* Wine Club! Huge discounts on wine for Chilled Employees.
At Chilled Pubs, ‘Inspiring Togetherness’ is a fundamental part of what we do, both for our wonderful guests and our teams across the business. If this sounds like a bit of you, we’d love to receive your application!
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