Head Chef - 40 Hours per Week (Full time)

Brewhouse & Kitchen; Chester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality group in Chester is seeking a Head Chef to lead their kitchen team. The role requires managing food stock, ensuring safety regulations, and preparing high-quality dishes. With a focus on team development and a fun working environment, you will play a key role in delivering excellent service. This full-time position includes competitive salary, bonuses, and various employee benefits including discounts and a flexible work schedule.

Benefits

Competitive Salary + tronc

Bonus scheme up to £5000

Free team meal on every shift

30% off Food, Drink, Accommodation

Access to discounts & cashback opportunities

Cycle to Work scheme

Flexible shifts

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

Qualifications

• Must be passionate about food and detail.
• Experience in managing kitchen teams and food safety protocols.
• Ability to prepare and cook high-quality dishes.

Responsibilities

• Manage food stock and ensure safe working practices.
• Lead the kitchen team to adhere to food safety regulations.
• Prepare dishes to specification and develop new recipes.

Skills

Team coaching

Food safety regulations

Kitchen management

Communication skills

Job description

Role Purpose

Food is incredibly important at B&K and our Head Chefs are the leaders in our kitchen. You will live and breathe food, be passionate about detail and take pride in your work. You will be an expert at getting the best out of people, able to coach and develop your team to deliver flawless execution within a fun and supportive environment. You are friendly, approachable and understand that communication is key to all departments, especially your General Manager. We value your work/life balance, therefore all of our Head Chefs are contracted to work 40 hours per week (Full time equivalent).

As a Head Chef in our Brewpubs, you’ll have the drive and determination to deliver an excellent service, every single day. Your main responsibilities include managing the food stock, ensuring safe working practices, you’ll also be managing the food safety regulations in your Brewpub kitchen by leading your team correctly. You’ll take a front foot in the preparation and cooking of our menu, ensuring it leaves the kitchen to perfect specification for our guests and will be given creative opportunities to develop dishes for our menu.

Benefits of being a B&K Head Chef

• Award winning employer – Best Brewing Pub Company & Best Companies Accredited 2025
• Competitive Salary + tronc
• Earn up to an additional £5000 per year on top of your annual salary with our bonus scheme
• 40 Hour working week (Full time equivalent)
• Access your pay early with Hastee Pay, including financial wellbeing support
• Free team meal on every shift
• 30% off Food, Drink, Accommodation & Experience’s in our Brewpubs and more
• Access to Brewhub – with over 3000+ discounts & cashback opportunities
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Annual incentive trips and benefits
• Access to award winning learning & development and apprenticeship programmes
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
• Flexible shifts to fit in with life!

At Brewhouse & Kitchen we are a ‘people first’ business, we value difference and want everyone to be able to bring their true selves to work. We are committed to equality of opportunity for our colleagues and welcome applications from all sections of society regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy and family leave, ethnicity, religion/belief, marriage/civil partnerships or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Brewhouse & Kitchen are a Disability Confident employer, if you have a disability or additional needs that require adjustments, please do not hesitate to let us know at the point of application.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, then click ‘apply’ now!