Head Chef

Baxterstorey; Winchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

BaxterStorey is seeking an experienced Head Chef to lead their culinary team in Winchester. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape a dynamic kitchen, inspire creativity, and deliver high-quality fine dining experiences. With a focus on innovation and team collaboration, you will help set the standard for workplace hospitality while enjoying bespoke training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Bespoke training and development opportunities

Apprenticeship opportunities for all experience levels

Pension and life insurance

Discounts available from the Perkbox app

Access to an employee assistance program

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role for 5+ years.
• Ability to manage, train, and support a culinary team.
• Financially astute and analytical with budget creation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing kitchen team driving menu innovation.
• Establish standard operating procedures for food preparation and presentation.
• Oversee all aspects of food preparation ensuring health and safety regulations.

Skills

Team Leadership

Creativity

Financial Management

Communication

Organizational Skills

Job description

• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Apprenticeship opportunities for all experience levels
• Pension and life insurance.
• Discounts available from the Perkbox app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema.
• Access to an employee assistance program.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Calling all culinary connoisseurs who are OBSESSED about food, we need you! If you have an insatiable appetite for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create food that delights customers and clients, then look no further. At BaxterStorey we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish, your talents can shine and we wholeheartedly believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft, and create a development partnership together to ensure professional growth opportunities.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Head Chef to make a name for themselves within the food service industry and be a part of setting the new standard for workplace hospitality.

Job Description

The Role

We are seeking anexperienced and passionate Head Chefto lead ourculinaryteamdriving menu innovation, operational excellence, and team development. This is an opportunity to shape a dynamic kitchen, inspire creativity, and elevatean exceptional food menu. This role is ideal for a dynamic leader who thrives in a fast-paced hospitality environment and is committed to delivering high-quality fine dining experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain standard operating procedures for food preparation, plating, and presentation.
• Stay updated with the latest culinary trends and techniques, bringing innovation and creativity to menu development.
• Leading and mentoring ahigh-performing kitchen team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Create and design menus for hospitality meetings, and events, target audience, and seasonal availability of ingredients.
• Develop new recipes, ensuring a balance between creativity, taste, and profitability.
• Collaborate with the management team to establish pricing, portion sizes, and cost-effective menu strategies to meettargets.
• Oversee all aspects of food preparation, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, sanitation standards, and food quality controls.
• Manage inventory levels, ordering, and stock rotation to minimize waste and maintain optimal ingredient freshness.
• Maintain accurate records of food costs, inventory, and production.
• Attend management meetings and actively participate in discussions on menu updates, specials, and customer feedback.
• Provide guidance and support to kitchen staff during peak service periods or in challenging situations.
• Enforce high standards of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the kitchen, following local health regulations and company policies.
• Implement and maintain proper food handling and safety practices, training staff accordingly.
• Conduct regular kitchen inspections and follow up on corrective actions.
• Collaborating with the regional culinary team, suppliers, and event coordinators to deliver seamless dining experiences.
• Driving acustomer andguest-focused culture, ensuring every dish contributes to the food culture of BaxterStorey.
• Oversee kitchen rotas, staff performance, and training to maintain high operational standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role for 5+ years.
• 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 prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
• Meticulous organizational 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.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.