Head Chef

Young's; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Cambridge is seeking a Head Chef to lead the kitchen and innovate the food offer at their Brew House. This role includes crafting exciting menus, ensuring quality service, and developing a strong culinary team. With autonomy over menu creation and various development opportunities, it's ideal for a proactive culinary leader.

Benefits

Full autonomy to create menus

Access to Apprenticeship Scheme

Regular culinary masterclasses

Inspirational food trips

Free meals

20% discount in all Young’s pubs and hotels

Enhanced Company Pension Scheme

28 Days Holiday per year

Qualifications

• Experience as Head Chef or Sous Chef.
• Passion for leading and developing a team.
• Pro-active approach to driving sales.

Responsibilities

• Lead the kitchen and develop fresh seasonal menus.
• Ensure kitchen health and safety and manage staff training.
• Create new dishes and specials that engage customers.

Skills

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Creativity

Planning and Organisation

Customer Service

Job description

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Head Chef / From 35k P/A plus a generous TRONC share.

About us:

We’re looking for a Head Chef at the Cambridge Brew House. We are looking for someone to lead the kitchen and be a key part of creating a new food offer within the pub – we want someone who can write some fantastic recipes to keep our customers happy, as well as look after all aspects of Kitchen Health and Safety and help to develop our team. Beer is a key part of what we do – so a couple of creative dishes featuring beer would be a crowd pleaser! We have a solid kitchen team that is close to full strength, and the business includes a number of areas that can be booked for private hire, so there are other opportunities to develop the offer and work with Adam the GM to ensure we’re offering quality food to all of our guests.

The Cambridge Brew House is the perfect pub in Cambridge to meet friends, enjoy fine beers, kick back and watch the game whilst sampling a tempting selection of delicious fresh food.

Relax in the bar while Vanesa is hard at work perfecting our own range of ales from the on-site micro-brewery, or sample some local and international craft beers from our ever changing range. We like to call it the complete pub!

What we offer our
Head Chefs:

• Head Chefs get to have full autonomy to create
  your own menus and specials
• Access to our Apprenticeship Scheme and Development Programmes
• Access to regular culinary masterclasses covering topics such as Game, Butchery and Shellfish
• Access to inspirational food trips with our top quality suppliers
• Regular Chef Forums with other Head Chefs to inspire and develop
• Free meals
• 20% discount in all Young’s pubs and hotels
• Share save Scheme
• Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
• 28 Days Holiday per year

What we look for in a
Head Chef:

This role
requires someone that can inspire a team, to bring out the potential and lead
by example whilst being able to develop, cost and produce fresh seasonal menus
for the variety of revenue streams within the business.

• Have experience championing excellent service
  through quality food either as a Head Chef or in the position of Sous Chef
• Demonstrate a passion for leading and developing
  a team
• Be an active hands-on team player with
  excellent communication skills
• Be responsible and able to manage the kitchen
  staff rota, training and all health and safety effectively at all times
• Be able to demonstrate your creativity and
  ability to design and deliver new dishes for our menus and daily specials
• Demonstrate great planning and organisational
  skills, necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP and
  labour
• Have a pro-active approach to driving sales
  and delivering growth, through engagement with both kitchen and front of house
  teams