Head Chef

Lounge Café Bars; Caerphilly; On-site; GBP 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading café bar chain is seeking a Head Chef to lead their kitchen team. You will focus on delivering high-quality dishes using fresh ingredients while managing kitchen operations and training staff. The role provides a competitive salary, bonus opportunities, and benefits like staff discounts and holiday pay.

Benefits

Annual salary up to £41,000

Annual bonus scheme up to £5,000

Staff food on every shift

50% staff discount outside working hours

28 days holiday pro rata

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Tips shared equally across the team

Company pension scheme

Personal development opportunities

Christmas and Boxing Day off

Qualifications

• Experience as Head Chef, Kitchen Manager, or Sous Chef.
• Experience with fresh ingredients and good kitchen skills.
• Ability to lead from the front and maintain high kitchen standards.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for preparing dishes to spec in a clean, safe kitchen.
• Manage kitchen operations and ensure quality standards.
• Lead team training and recruitment efforts.

Skills

Food preparation

Cleaning

Knife skills

Good hygiene practices

Leadership

Job description

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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. We also love our real people who run Lounges. The person who runs these brilliant people has to be super-brilliant, and that'll be you. Your standards will be as high as ours, but exactly how you do it will be unique to you.

You'll be doing it your way. You'll be part of a dedicated, supportive team, working from our flexible all-day menu to give people food that'll make their day. It'll be your responsibility to make each dish to spec, in a clean and safe kitchen, and to make sure all prep and par is completed for each shift. You'll be helping every customer leave happy. Which they tend to do. Thanks to your great food.

The Good Stuff

• Annual salary up to £41,000!
• Additional earnings from our annual bonus scheme of up to £5,000 for Head Chefs
• 40 and 48 hour contracts available
• We work hard to ensure you don't work over your contracted hours, but if at times this does happen you will receive overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours!
• Staff food on every shift
• 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years 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
• Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
• Christmas and Boxing Day off!

What you'll bring

• You are probably an existing Head Chef, Kitchen Manager or Sous Chef looking for your first step into a Head Chef role.
• You will have experience of working with fresh ingredients and be able to demonstrate good chef/kitchen skills (food prep hot and cold, cleaning, knife skills, good hygiene practices)
• Your work ethic is rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in and leading from the front; playing an active role in delivering excellent kitchen and food standards as part of a high performing team.
• Familiar with managing through clear KPIs and making decisions considering labour; stock; food safety requirements plus others.
• You will have worked in kitchen environments where you're required to report on various metrics including GPs; labour/house; food preparation.
• You will have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs and Sous Chefs.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management

• Industries

  Hospitality and Restaurants

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