Junior Sous Chef

The Swan at Walton; Sheffield; Remote; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 70% staff discount

Shared tips

Birthday day off

Christmas & New Year’s off

Wage-Stream access

Monthly incentives & awards dinners

Pension scheme

Career development

Wine Club

Job summary

The Blue Stoops is recruiting a Junior Sous Chef to lead a busy, fresh-food kitchen, delivering consistent quality from burgers to wood-fired pizzas. You’ll work closely with senior chefs to create exceptional dining experiences for our guests.

We’re looking for a proven chef with 2+ years in high-volume settings, a passion for great food and strong leadership. Flexible with evenings and weekends, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative team in our pubs network.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of chef experience in a fresh food, high-volume setting.
• Passion for creating great food and leading by example.
• Energetic, positive, and ready to thrive in a busy environment.
• Flexible with evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Lead your station and support kitchen operations in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Ensure the highest quality food and maintain a 5-star hygiene rating.
• Help with stock control, ordering, and deliveries.
• Mentor your team and develop leadership skills under the guidance of senior chefs.

Skills

Chef experience

Leadership

High-volume kitchen

Evenings/weekends flexibility

Job description

Rediscover Your Culinary Passion at The Blue Stoops

Are you ready to bring thefreshnessback to your chef life? Do you have apassion for great foodand want to work in abusy, fresh food environment? AtChilled Pubs, we’re all about creatingexceptional dishes—from towering burgers to wood-fired pizzas, giant swinging skewers, sweet bao buns, and homemade Italian gelato. Ourfresh, extensive menudemandstop talent, and experience is a must!

If you're aproven chefready tore-ignite your culinary fire, we want you to join our growing family atThe Blue Stoops

Why Join the Chilled Pubs Family?

• Up to 70% discountacross all Chilled Pubs—because who doesn’t love a good deal?
• Shared tips—boost your earnings with high tips from our busy locations.
• Paid day offon your birthday—we believe in celebrating you.
• Christmas and New Year’s Day Off(we close the business for both!).
• Instant accessto your wages with Wage-Stream.
• Monthly incentives,epic awards dinners, and company-wide competitions.
• Pension scheme—ready in 3 months, or sooner if you want it.
• Career development—grow with us through in-house and external training opportunities.
• Wine Club!Huge discounts on wine for Chilled Employees

At Chilled Pubs, ‘Inspiring Togetherness’ is a fundamental part of what we do, both for our wonderful guests, but also, our teams across the business. Chilled Pubs is focussed on being the best, and to help us get there, we understand, care about, and live and breathe four core values. Having this strong foundation and core belief system across the business, is truly helping us lead the way in the hospitality sector! Check out more by visiting Mission, Values & Beliefs | Chilled Pubs.

About the Role: Junior Sous Chef

As aJunior Sous Chef, you’ll be a leader in ourbusy, fresh food kitchen, ensuring quality dishes are served to our guests every day. From towering burgers to wood-fired pizzas, your expertise will be key to creating exceptional dining experiences.

What You'll Do:

• Lead your station and support kitchen operations in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Ensure the highest quality food and maintain a 5-star hygiene rating.
• Help with stock control, ordering, and deliveries.
• Mentor your team and develop your leadership skills under the guidance of senior chefs.

Who We’re Looking For:

• 2+ years of chef experiencein a similar fresh food, high-volume setting.
• Passion for creating great food and leading by example.
• Energetic, positive, and ready to thrive in a busy environment.
• Flexible with evenings and weekends.

About Chilled Pubs:

Founded in 2007, we now have7 stunning pubs, 500+ staff, and big plans to expand to 20 pubs.Chilled Pubsis all about fresh, high-quality food, abuzzing atmosphere, and aclose-knit familyfeel.