Head Chef - Derby

Lounge Café Bars; Derby; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Lounge Café Bars is seeking a passionate Head Chef for their Derby location, emphasizing fresh, high-quality cooking and team leadership. This role involves ensuring the highest cooking standards, managing kitchen operations, and developing team members in a supportive environment. With numerous benefits like overtime pay, staff discounts, and personal development opportunities, this presents a fantastic career step in a growing business.

Benefits

Overtime pay for every hour over contracted hours

Staff food on every shift

50% staff discount outside working hours

Paid breaks

28 days holiday pro rata

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years

Social events like Loungefest

Competitions and incentives

Company pension scheme

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Existing Head Chef, Kitchen Manager or Sous Chef experience required.
• Experience with fresh ingredients and demonstrated kitchen skills needed.
• Lead from the front and deliver excellent kitchen and food standards.

Responsibilities

• Make each dish to spec, ensuring cleanliness and safety in the kitchen.
• Oversee kitchen prep and collaborate with team to deliver great food.
• Meet operational KPIs and manage food safety requirements.

Skills

Food preparation

Cleaning

Knife skills

Good hygiene practices

Team leadership

Job description

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You love real cooking. We love real cooking. Customers love real cooking. It's a no-brainer so you wonder why so many other places don't do it. We do it, and you'll be doing it with us - fresh, customer led, and with high-quality ingredients. We also love our real people who run Lounges. The person who runs these brilliant people has to be super-brilliant, and that'll be you. Your standards will be as high as ours, but exactly how you do it will be unique to you.

You'll be doing it your way. You'll be part of a dedicated, supportive team, working from our flexible all-day menu to give people food that'll make their day. It'll be your responsibility to make each dish to spec, in a clean and safe kitchen, and to make sure all prep and par is completed for each shift. You'll be helping every customer leave happy. Which they tend to do. Thanks to your great food.

The Good Stuff

• Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours!
• Staff food on every shift
• 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
• Paid breaks
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
• The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest!
• Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our suppliers)
• Company pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
• Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
• Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast growing business
• Achievable bonuses
• Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
• Christmas and Boxing Day off!
  
  

What You'll Bring

• You are probably an existing Head Chef, Kitchen Manager or Sous Chef looking for your first step into a Head Chef role.
• You will have experience of working with fresh ingredients and be able to demonstrate good chef/kitchen skills (food prep hot and cold, cleaning, knife skills, good hygiene practices)
• Your work ethic is rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in and leading from the front; playing an active role in delivering excellent kitchen and food standards as part of a high performing team.
• Familiar with managing through clear KPIs and making decisions considering labour; stock; food safety requirements plus others.
• You will have worked in kitchen environments where you're required to report on various metrics including GPs; labour/house; food preparation.
• You will have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs and Sous Chefs.
  
  

If you want to find out more about us, follow us on LinkedIn or @life.at.loungers on TikTok and Instagram

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Restaurants

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