Head Chef

Smiths of Smithfield; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality venue in London is looking for a Head Chef to create seasonal menus and lead a dedicated kitchen team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for quality food and team development, ensuring excellent service and creativity in menu design. With a full-time contract, this role offers a chance to work with fresh ingredients and provides autonomy over culinary creations. Great benefits include discounts, holidays, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Free meals

20% discount at Youngs Pubs

28 Days Holiday per year

Enhanced Company Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience championing excellent service through quality food, as a Head Chef or Sous Chef.
• Ability to inspire and develop a team effectively.
• Hands-on team player with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage seasonal menus reflecting local produce.
• Lead kitchen staff, including training and health and safety.
• Drive sales and engage with kitchen and front-of-house teams.

Skills

Culinary Experience

Food Handling

Restaurant Experience

Kitchen Management Experience

Food Preparation Experience

Cost Control

Leadership Experience

Job description

Head Chef

About us :

Located in the heart of the City of London just minutes from Farringdon Barbican and Blackfriars stations and a short walk from Chancery Lane SMITHS is the ideal place for guests to meet for any occasion. Set across four stunning floors SMITHS is home to a bright open-plan bar private dining and meeting rooms a large grill-style restaurant and an epic rooftop bar and terrace - with each floor offering its own unique and wonderful drinking and dining experience.

With so much space to explore its never a dull day with us.

Being a Head Chef at Youngs :

We believe every pub should be different. This means that youll be writing your own recipes that match the food vision of your business using fresh seasonal ingredients. The food vision could be all about showcasing local produce country pub classics seafood small plates and sharers dry-aged meat - each pub is different and its up to you as head chef to put your own creative stamp on that vision. We work with fresh seasonal produce so the menu should constantly evolve to showcase these fantastic ingredients when they are at their best. Premium fresh food crafted by skilled chefs in Premium Pubs .

What we offer our Head Chefs :

• Head Chefs get to have full autonomy to createyour 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 Youngs Pubs and 30% discount on overnight stays in our Pubs with Rooms
• Share save Scheme
• Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
• 28 Days Holiday per year

What we look for in a Head Chef :

This rolerequires someone that can inspire a team to bring out the potential and leadby example whilst being able to develop cost and produce fresh seasonal menusfor the variety of revenue streams within the business.

• Have experience championing excellent servicethrough quality food either as a Head Chef or in the position of Sous Chef
• Demonstrate a passion for leading and developinga team
• Be an active hands-on team player withexcellent communication skills
• Be responsible and able to manage the kitchenstaff rota training and all health and safety effectively at all times
• Be able to demonstrate your creativity andability to design and deliver new dishes for our menus and daily specials
• Demonstrate great planning and organisationalskills necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP andlabour
• Have a pro-active approach to driving salesand delivering growth through engagement with both kitchen and front of houseteams

Key Skills

Culinary Experience,Food Handling,Restaurant Experience,Kitchen Management Experience,Food Preparation Experience,Kitchen Experience,Food Industry,Cooking,Cost Control,Baking,Sanitation,Leadership Experience

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1