Junior Sous Chef

Beech House Beaconsfield; Knotty Green; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £32,700 p.a.

Share of Tronc up to £5,000

Flexible shift patterns

Meal discounts for you and guests

Hotel/Accommodation discounts

Development pathway to Head Chef

Lifestyle card with 5,000+ discounts

Award and birthday gifts

Refer a friend recruitment incentives

Job summary

Upham Inns is looking for a Junior Sous Chef to join our team in the UK. You will support the Sous/Head Chef and management, following company menus and recipes while training and developing junior staff.

Responsibilities include rosters, stock control, quality food preparation, and maintaining high hygiene and safety standards. We offer a clear development pathway to Head Chef and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Be a strong leader capable of coaching and developing junior chefs.
• Have at least 1 year of Sous or junior Sous Chef experience.
• Possess excellent culinary and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the Sous/Head Chef and management in daily operations.
• Work within defined menus and recipes.
• Manage staff rosters and allocate work.
• Train and develop the team for growth.
• Handle food orders, stock control and proper storage.
• Maintain high hygiene and presentation standards at all times.
• Comply with food safety, fire, health and safety, licensing and employment laws.

Skills

Strong leader

Train & develop junior chefs

Experience as Sous/junior Sous chef

Great communication skills

Right to Work in the UK

Excellent culinary and presentation

Job description

What’s in it for you?

• Up to £32,700 per annum plus a share of Tronc (this can be up to £5000 per year)
• Flexible shift patterns
• Up to 33% off meals taken off duty for you and up to 6 guests
• 33% off our hotel accommodation & 20% for Friends and Family
• Development program with a clear pathway to Head Chef
• Access to the lifestyle card – which will provide you with instant access to over5,000 discountsacross all aspects of their lifestyle. With thousands of discounts covering local independents, national and online businesses, there are plenty of opportunities to save money. The lifestyle card is a100% free benefitfor our Upham Inn team members.
• Service Awards
• A Birthday Gift
• Refer a friend and Chef recruitment incentives of up to £1000

Junior Sous chef Requirements:

• Be a strong Leader, with the ability to train, Coach and develop junior chefs
• At least 1 year experience as a Sous/junior Sous chef
• Great communication skills
• Right to Work in the UK
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills

Junior Sous Chef Responsibilities:

• To work and support the Sous/Head Chef and management
• Experience working within company defined menus and recipes
• Manage staff rosters and allocation of work details
• Be able to fulfil training and growth of the team
• Be able to food order, stock control and correct storage of food stocks
• A Genuine desire to provide high quality food and service
• Maintain and manage the required high operational and personal standard of hygiene and presentation within the team at all times.
• Comply with all Food safety, fire, Health and safety, licensing and employment laws

What do we do?

We own a collection ofbeautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are inidyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be thequality local of the area, serving high quality fresh pub food in a cozy pub ambience.Most of our pubs have some Charming Bedrooms as well. New to our growing familyis Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we startedrolling out last year.

It’s an exciting time to join us!

Upham Inns is growing,and we want you to grow with us and be part of our success. We’ve been busyinvesting in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want tocontinue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate peopleinto our team

We are looking for great people to join us

Our company is bigenough to support you but small enough to care about your individual needs. Weare a friendly, hands-on team who have a passion for running great pubs. We arealways on the lookout for like-minded people who have the desire to work andgrow with us.