Head Chef

Tullie; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at a dynamic cultural facility in Carlisle, as it seeks a passionate Head Chef to lead its newly refurbished café. This role offers the chance to shape the food experience for visitors, ensuring exceptional quality and service. With the café set to reopen in February 2025, the Head Chef will play a pivotal role in developing the catering offer and managing a dedicated kitchen team. If you thrive in a vibrant environment and have a flair for culinary excellence, this position is a perfect fit for you. Join a team committed to becoming the heartbeat of Carlisle's cultural scene!

Qualifications

• Extensive kitchen experience and craft skills required.
• Experience in busy commercial catering environments is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead food development and production for the catering offer.
• Ensure excellent food quality and safe kitchen processes.
• Supervise and train the kitchen team in line with policies.

Skills

Kitchen Management

Food Quality Assurance

Catering Operations

Team Supervision

Commercial Catering Experience

Education

Culinary Arts Certification

Food Safety Certification

Tools

Culinary Equipment

Point of Sale Systems

Job description

Tullie is a large, dynamic and forward-facing cultural facility situated in the heart of Carlisle. It attracts around 200,000 visitors per year and is undergoing a major transformation. We are looking for a Head Chef with a real passion for food and service with a can-do attitude who will help us become the ‘heartbeat of Carlisle’.

Tullie is in an exciting, transformative phase of development reopening in February 2025 with a newly refurbished 80+ cover café. This presents a unique opportunity for you to develop the new offer within Carlisle’s leading visitor attraction.

We will reopen with a fresh and modern visitor offer, including the catering operation. We have been carrying out upgrade works to our café and will be, for the first time, running our catering operation in-house. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Tullie team and take a lead in ensuring we have a consistently excellent food offer to help attract new audiences and achieve our organisation visions.

The Head Chef will lead on kitchen management to ensure consistently excellent food quality, safe systems and processes, and commercial success in the delivery of the Catering & Hospitality offer at Tullie.

The postholder will have extensive kitchen experience, craft skills, and experience of working within a busy commercial catering environment.

Working hours: 37 hours per week; 5 days over 7 days. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly within the opening hours of the operation, which includes some weekend working and occasional evening work. The café opening hours will be: Monday - Saturday 9.30am-4.30pm and Sunday 10.30am-4pm.

Purpose of the Role

1. Lead on the food development and production for the refreshed catering offer at Tullie, ensuring exceptional quality in the offer to attract a range of audiences.
2. Lead on kitchen management to ensure consistently excellent food quality, safe systems and processes, and commercial success in the delivery of the Food & Beverage offer.
3. Supervise, train and develop the kitchen team in line with policy and current legislation.

Application Process

If you are inspired by the role and would like to apply for the position, please visit Vacancies | Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery and send your CV and a covering statement (of no more than 500 words), detailing any relevant experience and knowledge, and what interests you about this role.

If you have any further questions, please contact HR or Katie Mitchell, Head of Commercial and Operations.

Applications for this role will be reviewed as they are submitted, and applicants who can demonstrate they meet the Person Specification criteria will be invited to attend an in-person interview. Once an appointment is made, the vacancy will close.