Head Chef

The Thomas Lord; West Meon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A premium pub in Southern England is in search of an experienced Head Chef who is passionate and dedicated. The role involves managing kitchen operations, leading a team, and ensuring high food quality while maintaining hygiene standards. Ideal candidates must have prior Head Chef experience, excellent culinary skills, and the ability to inspire and educate their team. If you are looking for a new challenge with a progressive company, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

Up to £40,000 of Tronc

Flexible shift patterns

33% off meals taken off duty

Development program with a clear pathway

Lifestyle card access with various discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 years experience as a Head Chef.
• A forward-thinker that can manage stock with minimal wastage.
• The Right to Work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise and direct the preparation and cooking of food to enhance quality.
• Maintain food hygiene and safety standards.
• Oversee day to day kitchen operations in a proactive and hands-on way.

Skills

Excellent Culinary and presentation skills

Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills

Energetic with passion to do a great job

Excellent organisation skills

Team Player

Job description

What’s in it for you?

• Up to £40,000 of Tronc (this can be up to £5,000 per year)
• Flexible shift patterns
• 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 benefitfor our Upham Inn team members.
• Service Awards
• Refer a friend and Chef recruitment incentives of up to £1,000

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
• Excellent organisation skills
• 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.