Head Chef

Baxterstorey; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Birthday day off

3 volunteering days

Grandparent leave

Enhanced maternity leave

Carer leave

Wedding/commitment day

Free meals on shift

Training & development

Pension and life insurance

Perkbox discounts

Wellbeing hub

Employee assistance

Cycle to work

Job summary

BaxterStorey is seeking a Head Chef in the United Kingdom to lead and inspire a high-performing kitchen team. You will be responsible for delivering exceptional standards across food quality, service, and operational excellence, while building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.

The role requires proven leadership, a passion for food experiences, and the ability to manage budgets and drive commercial performance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role.
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills.
• Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships with clients and key stakeholders in the business.
• Continually develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
• Create a culture of excellence with your team, focusing on caring service, high food standards and innovation.
• Lead by example to achieve Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance KPIs.

Skills

Head Chef

Team leadership

Budget management

Stakeholder communication

Coaching

Strategic thinking

Job description

• Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships & communication methods with clients and other key stakeholders in the business.
• Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
• Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation.
• Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance., We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
• Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
• You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
• Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
• Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
• Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
• Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
• Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
• Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
• Works according to the BaxterStorey core values

Additional Information For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that's an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve. We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of. Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team's careers. 'Better' is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Competitive Salary with great benefits package,

• 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
• Plus your birthday as paid day off
• 3 paid volunteering days
• 3 days paid grandparent leave.
• 26 week's enhanced maternity leave.
• Secondary carer leave (enhanced; 4 weeks)
• Paid Wedding/commitment day leave.
• Free meals on shift.
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Pension and life insurance.
• Discounts available on our Perkbox app; high street shops, holidays & cinema
• Wellbeing hub.
• Access to employee assistance programme.
• Cycle to work scheme.