Head Chef

Youngs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals

20% staff discount in Young's Pubs

30% discount on overnight stays in our

Share save Scheme

Enhanced Company Pension Scheme

28 Days Holiday per year

Job summary

Young's is seeking a Head Chef to lead the kitchen in a busy pub with rooms in the heart of the community. You will craft menus with seasonal, local produce, and drive the food vision across revenue streams. The role is hands-on, creative, and focused on delivering quality dishes with strong cost controls.

You’ll inspire and develop the kitchen team, manage GP and labour, and participate in training and masterclasses. The position offers autonomy and opportunities to advance within Premium Pubs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a kitchen team (Head Chef or Sous Chef)
• Ability to develop fresh seasonal menus
• Strong cost-control and GP management
• Proactive, hands-on kitchen leadership and training
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to plan and organise kitchen operations

Responsibilities

• Inspire and lead a kitchen team to deliver seasonal menus
• Cost and produce menus aligned with the business vision
• Manage kitchen staff rota, training and health & safety
• Develop dishes and daily specials with creativity and discipline
• Collaborate with front-of-house to drive sales and guest satisfaction

Skills

Team leadership

Menu planning

Creativity

Food costing

Health & safety

Communication

Job description

Head Chef

About us:

The Dunstan House Inn is a fantastic pub with rooms, situated in the heart of the local community. We're all about the good things, nostalgic British food, real ale, wines from around the world and an enviable range of gins. Our team are ambitious, positive and all about putting our guests first. Upstairs, there are six stunning en-suite guest bedrooms, and we're just a stone's throw from the gorgeous seaside and town centre.

In the Summer we're bustling, we've got the best beer garden around and all day sunshine, with an outdoor bar and our coveted burger shack serving up proper burgers all season long. In the Winter, we transform into a cosy winter retreat, with roaring log fires, candles simmering and hearty pub classics served from our talented kitchen team all week long.

We love to see our team grow their skills and develop their career whilst they are with us, and actively encourage our team to partake in as much training as possible.

Being a Head Chef at Young's:

We believe every pub should be different. This means that you'll 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 create your 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 Young's 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 role requires someone that can inspire a team, to bring out the potential and lead by example whilst being able to develop, cost and produce fresh seasonal menus for the variety of revenue streams within the business.

• Have experience championing excellent service through quality food either as a Head Chef or in the position of Sous Chef
• Demonstrate a passion for leading and developing a team
• Be an active hands-on team player with excellent communication skills
• Be responsible and able to manage the kitchen staff rota, training and all health and safety effectively at all times
• Be able to demonstrate your creativity and ability to design and deliver new dishes for our menus and daily specials
• Demonstrate great planning and organisational skills, necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP and labour
• Have a pro-active approach to driving sales and delivering growth, through engagement with both kitchen and front of house teams