Head Chef

Marston's PLC; Warrington; Presencial; GBP 16.000 - 23.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Performance related bonus

30% off at all our pubs, restaurants,和

Reliable hours contract

Flexible and part time hours

Marston's Rewards

Health Screening Discounts

Long Service Awards

Gym Discounts

24-hour GP helpline

Mortgage Advice and support

Career progression via DNA

Licenced Trade Charity support

Wellbeing support

Accommodation on-site (where available

Descripción de la vacante

Marston's is looking for a Head Chef to lead a kitchen team in a pub across the country. You will be responsible for raising the bar, setting standards, and delivering memorable guest experiences. Step up from Sous/Second Chef or bring proven Head Chef experience; growth paths across pubs, hotels and support centres.

Expect to drive food quality, hygiene, and team development while maintaining safety and efficiency. A passion for food helps you inspire excellence and guest satisfaction.

Formación

• Ensure all food and hygiene standards are consistently met.
• Have a positive attitude and the ability to create a buzz in your kitchen.
• Achieve the highest standards, ensuring the business is safe and that food quality and speed of service targets are met.
• Maintain clear communication with your kitchen and wider pub team.
• Take pride in the meals that you and your team produce.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a kitchen team across the pub, ensuring consistent food quality and hygiene.
• Drive high service standards and speed of service.
• Foster strong communication within the kitchen and pub team.
• Recruit, develop and retain a motivated kitchen team.
• Overall responsibility for kitchen performance and guest experiences.

Conocimientos

Kitchen management

Team leadership

Food hygiene

Descripción del empleo

Lead a team to success in our kitchen. You'll be responsible for raising the bar and setting the standards across your kitchen. Playing a key part in the pub management team, you'll strive to create memorable experiences that leave our guests wanting to come back for more. Our kitchen is where it's at: As well as having a passion for food, you'll jump at the opportunity to grow, develop and retain a motivated kitchen team in one of our pubs across the country. As a Head Chef: You'll have experience in a similar Kitchen Manager/ Head Chef role or be ready to step up from a Sous/ Second Chef position.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all food and hygiene standards are consistently met
• Have a positive attitude and the ability to create a buzz in your kitchen
• Achieve the highest standards, ensuring the business is safe and that food quality and speed of service targets are met
• Maintain clear communication with your kitchen and wider pub team
• Take pride in the meals that you and your team produce

What comes next is up to you: Whether you'd like to progress your skills further in the Head Chef role or explore wider opportunities across our pub, hotels and pub support centre we have a range of career pathways to suit all.

Come as you are. Personality counts for more than anything else here. We'll accept you and celebrate you for being you. We can't wait to see what we can make happen together. Marston's could be the making of you.

From £14.00 40hrs per week Performance related bonus Reliable hours contract (or salaried in certain sites) Privilege card discount Marston's Rewards Performance related bonus Reliable hours contract (or salaried in certain sites) Privilege card discount

What you get from us

You’ll be joining an award-winning local pub company that puts people first, lives by people-led values, and offers real opportunities to advance your career - with genuine benefits that include:

• A performance related bonus
• 30% off at all our pubs, restaurants, and hotels
• A reliable hours contract, to give you the security you deserve
• Flexible and part time hours available to work around your family or higher education
• Marston's Cheers Reward & Recognition Platform (earn points to spend for living and breathing our values and behaviours and access high street retailer discounts)
• Health Screening Discounts
• Long Service Awards
• Gym Discounts
• 24-hour GP helpline
• Mortgage Advice and support
• Scope to build your career and progress through our internal career pathway, DNA, including access to our innovative app-based training
• Access to Licensed Trade Charity for financial, mental, and emotional well-being support, The benefits

Wellbeing As a responsible employer, we offer professional wellbeing support to our pub and pub support centre teams including support from the Licenced Trade Charity.

Accommodation The majority of our pub General Manager roles include optional on-site accommodation.

Award winning Named as one of the UK's Top 100 employers and #1 in the pub sector for 2025, in the Financial Times UK's Best Employers list.

Bonus Our pub management, operations and sales roles offer performance related bonus schemes. For our support centre teams, we offer a discretionary company bonus scheme. Competitive salaries Opportunity to earn a great wage whilst having fun at work.

Long service We reward loyalty with awards for key anniversary milestones.

Food and drink Our privilege card gives our people 30% discount off food and drink in our pubs. As well as access to our £4.50 refuel at work meal deal whilst on shift.

Pension scheme All our salaried roles offer membership to a company contributory pension scheme. Hourly paid roles offer auto enrolment schemes.

Private healthcare Some of our roles offer access to a private healthcare scheme.

High street discount An exciting range of high street, online discounts and cash back offers are available for all.

Employee discount All of our employees receive a 30% discount on Marston's food and hotel stays.

Training and development We're passionate about growing our own talent through an extensive apprenticeship offer, dedicated L&D teams, and award winning e-learning platforms.