Head Chef

Chilledpubs; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Chilled Pubs is seeking an enthusiastic Head Chef to join their team. With a commitment to freshness and quality, you will lead a talented kitchen team, ensuring high standards in food safety and quality while inspiring the next generation of chefs. This role offers a competitive salary, training opportunities, and a vibrant working environment.

Benefits

28 days paid holiday

Paid birthday off

Up to 70% discount across all Chilled Pubs

Access to Wage-Stream for early salary access

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 2 years experience at Sous Chef level in a fresh food restaurant.
• A genuine passion for food and high standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure food safety compliance and manage kitchen operations.
• Lead and train kitchen staff to deliver high-quality food.
• Inspire and grow the kitchen team through development and feedback.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Food Safety

Team Development

Menu Development

Job description

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Are you looking to put the freshness back into your chef life? Do you have a passion for great food and the drive to build and inspire your team?

Chilled Pubs are on the search for a Head Chef to join their ever-growing family. With ample opportunities on the horizon this could be the perfect company to evolve in your career. Ready to re-ignite your fire?

Think……towering burgers, wood fired pizza, giant swinging skewers, sweet bao buns and home-made Italian gelato. An extensive fresh food menu, requiring top talent to deliver top notch, quality food. Sound good?

Who are Chilled Pubs?

It all started back in 2007 when Loren agreed to Richards crazy dream, and they together purchased the Bulls Head in Repton. Fast forward 17 years and they have a thriving pub business. With 7 gorgeous sites, over 500 employees, an industry leading food & drink menu and just to be a bit different, 7 mascot alpacas.

Driven by their vision to become the top leading pub brand in the Midlands, they’re passionate about finding superstars to live and breathe their values and ensure all guests are truly wowed by their Chilled Pub experience. With no signs of slowing down, Richard and Loren are always on the lookout for their next project and would like to reach a portfolio of 20 pubs in the near future.

What the role entails?

• Food safety is a number 1 priority across Chilled Pubs. You must ensure your kitchen is always kept fully compliant to ensure we retain our 5-star food hygiene rating. Working closely with our leadership team & the local EHO, you will attend a monthly ‘food safety’ review to ensure we have industry leading standards to protect our teams and our guests.
• Ensuring your kitchen team are fully trained and confident to deliver consistent, quality, high standard food in line with our company specs.
• Leading from the front, building a strong and successful partnership with your Sous Chef to together create a positive and engaged kitchen team.
• Managing all areas of the kitchen, including stock counting & reporting, margin control and stock analysis.
• Managing staffing levels and creating rotas to maximise the efficiency of our kitchens.
• Growing your kitchen team and inspiring our next generation of chefs by having a pro-active approach to their development and career progression. Providing regular and honest feedback, conducting 1-1s and identifying any areas of improvement.
• Menu development- taking an interest in continuous improvement, presenting your and your team's ideas at our quarterly cook offs.
  
  

Who are we looking for?

• A passion for great food - before anything else, we believe it is important you’re a foodie - we love food and want to work with likeminded people that share our passion.
• A natural leader, confident to motivate and inspire their team in a high volume, fast-paced environment.
• A passionate chef, driven to deliver high standards and quality, ensuring the food is made and presented to an exceptional level and kitchen cleanliness remains a top priority.
• An emotionally intelligent and strong leader, with excellent communication skills, who can positively manage and develop their team.
• Enthusiastic about your own personal growth and development.
• Somebody who naturally aligns with our values, which are being warm & friendly and genuinely ’guest obsessed.’
• An energetic person, driven to consistently provide a 'WOW' service for all our guests.
• Due to the high-volume environment, we require somebody who has at least 2 years of experience at a minimum of Sous Chef level in a fresh food restaurant.
• Somebody with a flexible approach to work, this isn’t a typical 9-5 role, and both evening and weekend work will be required.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive & industry leading salary is available for this position, dependent on previous experience.
• 28 days paid holiday.
• A structured working week with Wednesday & Thursday as your days off.
• Christmas and New Year’s Day off, every year!
• Your birthday is a PAID DAY OFF
• Up to 70% discount across all Chilled Pubs
• A sociable team where you'll become part of the family.
• Instant access to Wage-Stream (you can access your salary early essentially)
• Monthly incentives, yearly ‘Dennis Awards’ dinners, and company wide competitions to win tickets to some of the biggest music shows in the UK.
• Pension scheme (opt in / out) available after 3 months employment.
• Career development opportunities - whether this is in-house, externally delivered training programmes, or via our Apprenticeship partners, have a real appetite at Chilled Pubs to ‘growing our own’ future leaders.
• Wine Club! Huge discounts on wine for Chilled Employees
  
  

At Chilled Pubs, ‘Inspiring Togetherness’ is a fundamental part of what we do, both for our wonderful guests, but also, our teams across the business. Chilled Pubs is focussed on being the best, and to help us get there, we understand, care about, and live and breathe four core values. Having this strong foundation and core belief system across the business, is truly helping us lead the way in the hospitality sector! Check out more by visiting Mission, Values & Beliefs | Chilled Pubs. If this sounds like a bit of you, we’d love to receive your application!

We are extremely proud to have created a real family here at Chilled Pubs, with many of our employees achieving close to 10 years’ service with us.

For a sneak peek into what life is like working with us head over to our website where you can ‘meet the team’ for each of our sites or you can find us on most social media platforms!

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We hope to welcome you to the family soon!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Restaurants

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