Junior Sous Chef - Monday - Friday

Compass Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A catering company in London seeks a Junior Sous Chef to oversee café operations and menu creation. Key responsibilities include managing food production for 50-60 daily covers, ensuring food quality and adherence to hygiene standards. Ideal candidates will have a background in contract catering or cafés, possess time management skills, and focus on social sustainability. This role offers a salary of £35,000 per annum and various employee benefits including training, pension scheme, and healthcare support.

Benefits

Personal Development and Training opportunities

Life assurance scheme

Pension scheme

Holiday allowance

Healthcare Support App

Regular social events

Holiday purchase scheme

Volunteering days

Recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Must have a background in contract catering or café.
• Must be flexible with working hours and responsibilities.
• In-depth knowledge of hygiene and sanitation standards required.

Responsibilities

• Create menus based on client needs.
• Produce food timely to ensure a smooth service.
• Manage the café and cover 50-60 customers daily.
• Communicate with suppliers for planned menu ingredients.

Skills

Food safety knowledge

Time management

Front of house ability

Social sustainability focus

Job description

We are Company of Cooks, and we believe brilliant food and drink starts with brilliant people. For over 25 years, we’ve been part of some of the UK’s most loved cultural destinations, from historic palaces and botanical gardens to buzzing galleries and performance spaces, running the cafés, restaurants, bars and events that bring these incredible places to life.

Our values - Craft, Creativity and Community - guide everything we do. They shape how we work together, how we support our partners, and how we make each guest feel welcome. If you care about food, people and doing things properly, you’ll feel right at home here.

Wherever we are, we do more than serve. We bring places to life through food, service and creativity and we’re looking for a Junior Sous Chef to join our amazing site in London.

Location: WC1H 9JZ

Salary: £35,000 per annum

Working Pattern: 40 hours per week – Monday-Friday, 7am-3pm, you will be required to support in hospitality so additional hours will be available as overtime, some flexibility is required

Key responsibilities will include:

• To invent and create menus that are in line with client and customer needs
• To produce food in a timely fashion to ensure smooth service to the customersTo enjoy the food you produce and ensure they are ‘picture perfect’ every time
• You will be responsible for running the cafe and cover between 50-60 covers per day
• To communicate with the relevant parties requirements for planned menus and order necessary ingredient

Ideal Cafe Sous Chef Candidate:

• Drive the café to improve the food and increase our covers during our lunch period
• Is flexible and have a good front of house ability to cover during busy lunch period
• Be highly focused on social sustainability
• Have contract Catering or Cafe background is highly desirable
• Very well organised and good time-management skills
• Have in-depth knowledge of food safety, hygiene protocols, and sanitation standards

What's in it for you?

Working with Company Of Cooks has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Access to Healthcare Support App which includes Annual health check, Digital GP, Mental Health Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinion
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers