Head Chef

Premium Suburban Inns; Horton; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tronc bonus up to £40,000

Meal discounts

Hotel discount

Lifestyle card with 5,000+ discounts

Development program with clear pathway

Service awards

Refer a friend incentive up to £1,000

Job summary

Upham Inns in the UK is seeking an experienced Head Chef to lead our kitchen and uphold the high standard of our food. You will direct preparation, maintain hygiene standards, and manage stock and wastage while inspiring a team of chefs to deliver exceptional dining experiences.

We are looking for a passionate leader with excellent culinary skills, strong communication, and a proven ability to drive a high-performing kitchen.

Qualifications

• Excellent Culinary and presentation skills.
• Minimum 1 years experience as a Head Chef
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills
• Energetic with passion to do a great job
• Able to manage staff in a calm, inspirational manner
• A forward-thinker that can manage stock with minimal wastage
• Demonstrates a passion for food
• Team Player
• An understanding of profit margins and food stock controls.
• The Right to Work in the UK

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise and direct the preparation and cooking of food ensuring that the company's reputation for quality is enhanced
• Preparing high quality food for our guests quickly and efficiently
• Maintaining food hygiene and safety standards
• Responsibility for ordering and stock controls, reduction of waste
• Overseeing day to day kitchen operations in a proactive and hands‑on way
• Leading a team of chefs and KP's, Train, Coach and mentoring is a must
• Maintaining a clean and organised kitchen
• Adhere to allergen laws and respect for dietary requirements
• producing rotas and cleaning schedules for kitchen staff

Skills

Culinary skills

Leadership

Stock management

Communication

Team leadership

Job description

• Up to £40,000 of Tronc (this can be up to £5000 per year)
• Up to 33% off meals taken off duty for you and up to 6 guests
• 33% off our hotel accommodation & 20% for Friends and Family
• Development program with a clear pathway
• Access to the lifestyle card – which will provide you with instant access to over 5,000 discounts across all aspects of their lifestyle. With thousands of discounts covering local independents, national and online businesses, there are plenty of opportunities to save money. The lifestyle card is a 100% free benefit for our Upham Inn team members.
• Service Awards
• Refer a friend and Chef recruitment incentives of up to £1000

Head Chef Requirements:

• Excellent Culinary and presentation skills
• Minimum 1 years experience as a Head Chef
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills
• Energetic with passion to do a great job
• Able to manage staff in a calm, inspirational manner
• A forward-thinker that can manage stock with minimal wastage
• Demonstrates a passion for food
• Team Player
• An understanding of profit margins and food stock controls.
• The Right to Work in the UK

Head Chef Responsibilities:

• Plan, organise and direct the preparation and cooking of food ensuring that the company's reputation for quality is enhanced
• Preparing high quality food for our guests quickly and efficiently
• Maintaining food hygiene and safety standards
• Responsibility for ordering and stock controls, reduction of waste
• Overseeing day to day kitchen operations in a proactive and hands‑on way
• Leading a team of chefs and KP's, Train, Coach and mentoring is a must
• Maintaining a clean and organised kitchen
• Adhere to allergen laws and respect for dietary requirements
• producing rotas and cleaning schedules for kitchen staff

A job you can enjoy

We are looking to recruit a passionate and dedicated Head
Chef who is a natural born leader to join us on our very exciting Journey.

We are very passionate about what we do and the quality of
the ingredients we cook with, so we need a Head Chef who loves to cook with raw
ingredients as well as having the ability to coach and educate their team.

If you have
previous Head Chef experience, a strong team approach, a real passion for
delivering service excellence, and the strong desire to work within a
progressive and expanding company – then we want to hear from you!

This is not for the faint hearted as we are busy and going
to get busier, so we need an experienced high class operator to lead and manage
our Kitchen whilst executing great food quality.

It goes without saying that 5 star food hygiene standards
come before everything.

What do we do?

We own a collection of
beautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are in
idyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be the
quality local of the area, serving high quality fresh pub food in a cozy pub ambience.
Most of our pubs have some Charming Bedrooms as well. New to our growing family
is Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we started
rolling out last year.

It’s an exciting time to join us!

Upham Inns is growing,
and we want you to grow with us and be part of our success. We’ve been busy
investing in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want to continue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate people into our team

We are looking for great people to join us

Our company is big
enough to support you but small enough to care about your individual needs. We
are a friendly, hands‑on team who have a passion for running great pubs. We are always on the lookout for like‑minded people who have the desire to work and grow with us.