Head Chef

Get Golfing; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative charity is seeking a passionate Head Chef to lead culinary operations and elevate food experiences across multiple venues. This role offers the chance to showcase your creativity while managing a dedicated kitchen team. You will be responsible for menu development, maintaining food safety standards, and ensuring a delightful dining experience for over 160,000 visitors annually. Join a dynamic organization that values community engagement and reinvests in its people and venues. If you're ready to make a difference and bring your culinary vision to life, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Pension Plans

Training & Development

Free Golf

50% Discount on Food and Beverage

Staff Referral Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in menu development and food trends.
• Proven background in managing kitchen staff effectively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standards of quality and service in venues.
• Develop and implement new menus while managing kitchen staff.

Skills

Culinary Creativity

Food Safety Standards

Menu Development

Team Management

Cost Management

Training and Development

Communication Skills

Allergen Management

Education

Culinary Arts Degree

Food Safety Certification

Tools

Kitchen Equipment

POS Systems

Job description

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About Get Golfing

Get Golfing CIO, a charity with a mission to make golf more accessible for all, is seeking an experienced Head Chef to join our team.

About Get Golfing

Get Golfing CIO, a charity with a mission to make golf more accessible for all, is seeking an experienced Head Chef to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a thriving and dynamic organisation which manages and operates 13sites with 7,000 members and over 160,000 visitors each year.

The successful candidate will be part of a £20m revenue company of 400 people which reinvests profits from its operations into its venues, courses, the development of its people, and importantly, community oriented charitable initiatives local to its sites.

Our model is to maximise revenue through memberships, golf days, events, functions, and F&B. We say that “our courses are for golfers while our clubhouses are for everyone”.

Please see: https://www.getgolfing.org

Role Purpose

The Head Chef plays a crucial role in ensuring the highest standards of quality and service are maintained across our venues. Reporting to the General Manager, the Head Chef will have the opportunity to showcase their culinary creativity, manage kitchen staff, and lead the development and implementation of new menus.

This is a full-time position at £40-42k per year based on experience. This role requires you to be available evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• To input and shape the brief for site teams using your creative flair and understanding of food hospitality and the business drivers.
• To produce menus to respond to a recipe brief which develops our offer, meet our guiding principles, and achieve our commercial expectations.
• To ensure the delivering and daily updating/monitoring and accountability of the allergen management process
• Near miss and accident reporting to ensure achievement of Health and Safety standards
• Develop recipes within the capability and equipment as set by the ingredients and site teams and where relevant support the kitchens across the group and in their professional development
• To ensure the delivering and daily updating/monitoring and accountability of the allergen management process
• Near miss and accident reporting to ensure achievement of Health and Safety standards
• Work closely with the Group Catering Manager to document and fully cost and document all recipes and ingredients and deliver the business strategic objectives.
• To work collaboratively with the Club House teams, Sales and Marketing to see our shared vision through to reality in a consistent manner across all sites
  
  

Requirements

Essential that they have an innate feel for what will make our food direction different

• Open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds, possible options include B&I contract catering, hotels, restaurants, sports and leisure sector.
• Passionate about making a difference
• An up-to-date knowledge of food trends
• Computer literate
• Ability to work efficiently and competently under pressure
• Proven background menus and program’s that deliver financial forecasts
• Have a firm grasp on margins and optimising food costs and customer delight
• Experience of managing waste and stock loss
• Experience of producing scalable recipe specifications
• Experience in delivering training sessions that inspire that include training, production, serving guides, merchandising guidelines for operational colleagues
• A natural coach, with a proven background in developing others
• Creative, yet process led & methodical approach
• Strong influencing skills across a variety of levels
• Ability to communicate at all levels & partners with multiple stakeholders understanding their needs in order deliver the business goals.
• Maintain and uphold best practice for food safety, cleanliness, allergen-awareness and health and safety in the workplace.
  
  

Benefits

• Pension Plans
• Training & Development
• Free Golf
• 50% discount on food and beverage
• Staff referral programme

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

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