Head Chef

WSH Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,500 - 49,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 Days holiday

Your birthday off

3 volunteering days

Free meals on shift

Bespoke training opportunities

Job summary

WSH Group is seeking a skilled Head Chef to lead a dynamic kitchen team in Birmingham. With a salary of up to £45,000, you will inspire your team to deliver exceptional dining experiences while managing budgets and achieving key performance indicators.

The successful candidate will have a passion for food and a proven track record in a similar role, coupled with excellent communication and leadership skills. WSH Group promotes an inclusive workplace and values diversity as part of their hiring practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role.
• Financially astute with budget creation and maintenance.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire your team to deliver exceptional standards.
• Build collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety.

Skills

Head Chef experience

Food obsession

Budget management

Coaching and delegation

Organizational skills

Job description

Head Chef

Up to £45'000

Hospitality and Fine Dining

Mon to Fri

Benefits

• 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
• Plus your birthday off
• 3 volunteering days
• 3 days grandparent leave.
• 24 week’s enhanced maternity leave.
• Secondary carer leave
• Wedding/commitment day leave.
• Free meals on shift.
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
• Pension and life insurance.
• Discounts available on our Perkbox app; high street shops, holidays & cinema
• Wellbeing hub.
• Access to employee assistance programme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Responsibilities

• Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and colaborativerelationships & communication methods with clientsand other key stakeholders in the business.
• Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
• Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation.
• Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
• Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
• You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
• Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
• Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast‑paced, multi‑faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
• Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
• Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
• Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution‑oriented perspective
• Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
• Works according to the BaxterStorey core values

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio‑economic backgrounds.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.