Head Chef: Lead, Create & Elevate Culinary Excellence

Baxterstorey; East Hagbourne; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 Days holiday including bank hollld

Birthday off

Volunteering days

3 days grandparent leave

Pension and life insurance

Disability Confident

Discounts on Perkbox

Wellbeing hub

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Free meals on shift

Job summary

BaxterStorey is hiring a Head Chef in Didcot (0X11 OQX) for a permanent, full-time role. You will lead a culinary team, drive exceptional food standards, and build strong client relationships across a busy workplace hospitality environment.

We seek an experienced leader with a passion for food, budgeting prowess, and the ability to mentor staff. Competitive salary and extensive benefits accompany the position.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role.
• Have an obsession for food and creating experiences.
• 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 prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure.
• Meticulous organisational 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

Responsibilities

• Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships with clients and other key stakeholders in the business.
• Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
• Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation.
• Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.

Skills

Head Chef experience

Team leadership

Budget management

Food quality

Coaching skills

Communication

Job description

BaxterStorey is hiring a Head Chef in Didcot (0X11 OQX) for a permanent, full-time role. You will lead a culinary team, drive exceptional food standards, and build strong client relationships across a busy workplace hospitality environment.

We seek an experienced leader with a passion for food, budgeting prowess, and the ability to mentor staff. Competitive salary and extensive benefits accompany the position.