Junior Sous Chef

Bents Garden & Home; Glazebury; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Bents Garden & Home is seeking a motivated Junior Sous Chef to lead from the front in our dining operation. You’ll drive high standards, manage busy services and help develop menus in a fast-paced, quality-focused environment.

You’ll join a supportive brigade with a clear path to growth into a future Sous Chef role. The role offers permanent full-time hours (40 average per week) and progression in a family-run business with a strong reputation for quality.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Chef de Partie or Sous Chef.
• Ability to lead a large, fast-paced kitchen.
• Sound HACCP and food safety knowledge.
• Strong commercial awareness and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead busy services and maintain high standards.
• Drive food quality and implement food safety practices.
• Manage stock, margins and cost controls.
• Inspire and develop the kitchen team and menus.

Skills

Leadership

HACCP knowledge

Food safety

Commercial awareness

Calm under pressure

Job description

Step Up as Our New Junior Sous Chef - Lead from the Front!

Are you ready to take the next step in your culinary career? We’re looking for a passionate and driven Junior Sous Chef to join our talented Chef Brigade and help deliver exceptional food across our Dining operation.

If you thrive in a fast-paced kitchen, love leading from the front and want to develop your leadership skills in a high-volume, quality-focused environment — this could be your next move.

Why you’ll love this Junior Sous Chef role:

• Easter Sunday, Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year off?
• Permanent full time contract, offering annualised hours as an average of 40 hours per week.
• Working alternate weekends*, no split shifts!
• Salary up to £35,000 per annum
• A real opportunity to develop into a future Sous Chef.
• The chance to work across a diverse, multi-offer dining environment with fresh ingredients.

What you’ll be doing as a Junior Sous Chef:

You’ll be right at the heart of the action — leading busy services, keeping standards sharp and stepping up to run the kitchen. From driving food quality and embedding strong food safety habits, to managing stock like a pro and protecting margins, you’ll help keep the operation running smoothly. You’ll inspire and develop the team around you, bring fresh ideas to menus using trends and customer feedback, and play a key role in shaping a kitchen that delivers consistency, pace and wow-factor every single day.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience as a Senior Chef de Partie or Sous Chef
• Confident leading a team in a large fast-paced kitchen
• Strong knowledge of HACCP and food safety
• Commercial awareness and attention to detail
• Positive, proactive and calm under pressure

The role offers full time hours of 40 average weekly hours annualised over a 12 month period, stepping up your hours at peak (October to December) and working less in non-peak (January - March) you'll have one set day off each week and work alternate weekends*.

• Please note, during the induction and training period of 6 months, the successful candidate will need to work every weekend having 2 weekday shifts off.

Who are Bents?

We are a family-run business with a reputation for quality, experience and innovation; selling everything for your Garden & Home whilst having Dining Facilities catering for over 1000 seats.

We have always been a business which has followed its passions, taken chances and strived to innovate, which is how it all began in 1937. Passion, experience and an understanding of quality and exclusive living have earned our family-run business a reputation for quality, experience and innovation. You can really feel valued and part of the family from the day that you join.