Head Chef

Apex Temple Court Hotel; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious dining establishment in London seeks an experienced Head Chef to spearhead the culinary experience. Key responsibilities include developing a high-performing team, driving restaurant profitability, and ensuring exceptional quality service. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, a food safety management qualification, and experience in mentorship. A competitive salary and benefits await the successful candidate.

Benefits

35 days holiday

Training and development from day one

Access to gym and pools

50% discount in restaurants

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to interact across all levels.
• Identifies and manages best resources to achieve targets.
• Can assist in deploying time in motion exercises.

Responsibilities

• Develop a multi-skilled culinary team that delivers payroll flexibility.
• Maximise sales and profit while ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Coaching, training and supporting all Chefs and apprentices.

Skills

Clear communication

Sales and profit driven mentality

Coaching and mentoring skills

Food Safety Management

Team building

Education

Professional Cookery qualification at level 3 or above

Job description

Reporting to the Hotel Operations Manager, you will assist in spearheading the culinary experience for our Amicable Societies & Chambers F&B Brand. You will assist in driving our approach in delivering a high-quality, life-style Restaurant & Bar Food offering. Your main place of work will be Apex Temple Court Hotel, with Cluster responsibilities as directed by the Hotel Operations Manager, or Regional General Manager. You will be Results driven, and you will work closely with our supply chain partners, in-house centralised services, and on property kitchen and front of house teams to continue developing, researching, and implementing appropriate efficiency and quality changes across all service outlets. You will assist in ensuring Delivery of a sustainable and continuous profit growth across all outlets. As part of the senior management team, this role will involve operational shift coverage across a seven-day week rota. As Head Chef, you will, together with your Sous Chef ensure the smooth running of the Kitchen team, building and creating a high performing team, team culture and spirit, and a flair for life-style insta-grammable, storytelling dishes.

Responsibilities

• Developing a multi-skilled culinary team that delivers payroll flexibility with minimal tiers.
• Collaborate with the Food and Beverage Manager to translate annual strategic business plans into considered departmental scorecard targets and associated activity plans.
• Highly visible at key service periods focusing attention to detail on culinary delivery.
• Full ownership of the full in‑stay and post‑stay culinary feedback, to address quality gaps.
• Maximising sales and profit while ensuring customer satisfaction at all times.
• Coaching, training and supporting all Chefs and apprentices to provide consistently high standards, while continually looking to improve.
• Assist in developing and coordinating a community/social calendar of events for team members.
• Delivering regular staff communications on business trading, as directed by the Cluster General Manager.
• Daily/weekly payroll and food cost analysis in accordance with forecasted and materialised revenue levels to ensure optimal performance with overspend corrected within the same trading period, and as directed by Management.

We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in.

You will be friendly and approachable; you will go the extra mile for our guests; you will provide highly consistent good service and you will lead by example. To be successful in the role you will be a:

Qualifications & Skills

• Clear and influencing communicator with the ability to interact across all levels.
• Possess a sales and profit driven mentality.
• Identifies and manages best resources to achieve targets.
• Ability to bring strategy ideas to the table and assist into turning them into practical plans.
• Can assist in deploying time in motion exercises ensuring optimum cost engineering.
• Assists in building and developing a guest‑centric team culture.
• Ability to identify and manage best resources to assist in achieving targets.
• Food Safety Management and Professional Cookery qualification at level 3 or above.
• Coaching, supporting, challenging mentality that delivers operational results.
• Creates an open environment.

You'll work with great people, enjoy your time at work, develop new friendships, networks & skills, and of course you'll also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:

Benefits

• 35 days holiday.
• Training and development from day one.
• Employee events and celebrations.
• In‑house company interactive employee communication APP.
• Entry to our state‑of‑the‑art gym and pools.
• Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working.
• Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme.
• Financial Wellbeing App Wagestream, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
• Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform "Treat Yourself Here", unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
• Involvement in our employee of the quarter and annual recognition schemes.
• Long service recognition.
• Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two.
• 50% discount in our restaurants.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family.
• Spa treatments and product discounts.
• Critical Illness & Life Assurance cover.