Junior Sous Chef - Southbank

Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals & drinks on shift

50% dining discount (up to 4 mates)

20% coffee retail discount

Extensive wellbeing support

Financial health education & support

Leadership training & development

Dining voucher on start/birthdays/work

Internal career progression

Job summary

Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters in London is seeking a Junior Sous Chef to join our Southbank kitchen. You will work with the Head Chef to uphold health and safety standards, ensure dish consistency, and lead a motivated team focused on hospitality and guest experience.

Join us as we grow and open new spaces, with opportunities to develop leadership skills, mentor colleagues, and contribute to an exciting dining program at Caravan.

Qualifications

• Responsibilities in kitchen operations and team leadership are expected.

Responsibilities

• Setting the standards for health & safety and delivering excellence across the kitchen
• Making sure every dish is made consistently, confidently and to spec
• Leading by example and helping create the kind of hospitality people want to come back for
• Giving new team members a helping hand, welcoming them aboard and inspiring their development
• Keeping on top of stock, cleanliness, health & safety and all the brilliant basics that make a great kitchen work
• Working closely with the wider restaurant team to give every guest the best experience possible

Job description

Junior Sous Chef - Southbank

Company: Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters

Salary: £17.40 to £17.40 an hour

Hours: Full-time

Location: London, SE1 8XX

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 21 Oct 2026

Closing date: 20 Nov 2026

This November, we’re opening our tenth, and biggest, Caravan at the Southbank. And we’re looking for a brilliant Junior Sous Chef to help lead our kitchen team. We’re after someone kind, confident and genuinely passionate about what they do. Someone who is passionate about fresh ingredients, wants to lead and inspire their colleagues, and gets a kick out of helping their team give our guests the best experience possible

You’ll be joining Caravan as we open a special new restaurant, with two floors, multiple bars and plenty of opportunity to make your mark from day one.

The role

As Junior Sous Chef, you’ll work alongside your Head Chef and the management team to make sure the kitchen runs brilliantly every day. That means setting the standard for health & safety, culture, hospitality and developing yourself and the team around you to make sure every dish sent out is one you’re proud to serve. You’ll know how to work collaboratively as a senior team member and help your team deliver for your guests.

What you’ll be doing as Junior Sous Chef

• Setting the standards for health & safety and delivering excellence across the kitchen
• Making sure every dish is made consistently, confidently and to spec
• Leading by example and helping create the kind of hospitality people want to come back for
• Giving new team members a helping hand, welcoming them aboard and inspiring their development
• Keeping on top of stock, cleanliness, health & safety and all the brilliant basics that make a great kitchen work
• Working closely with the wider restaurant team to give every guest the best experience possible

Why Caravan?

Since 2010, we’ve been serving well-travelled food, specialty coffee and drinks inspired by flavours and ideas from around the world.

We’re a business built around curious people. People who care about what they do, look out for each other and aren’t afraid to try something new. With more openings ahead and a big focus on developing our own people, there’s plenty of room to grow with us too.

Plus, when you work at Caravan you enjoy:

• Free meals & drinks when on shift
• 50% dining discount with up to 4 mates
• 20% coffee retail discount
• Extensive wellbeing support
• Financial health education & support
• Leadership training and development
• A dining voucher when you start, on your birthday and your work anniversary, to spend in any of our restaurants
• Real career progression - 80% of our management roles are filled internally

Our values

• All welcome - We make space for everyone at our table
• No boundaries - Grow, develop and thrive, just a little bit each day
• Caravan of Love - Bring the energy, and be part of the change you want to see in the world
• Well-travelled - Be curious; learn, taste, experiment and share that knowledge with those you meet along the way

Sustainability

We're all in on both environmental and social sustainability practices. Every team member plays their part in maintaining our B-Corp certification targets.

Diversity & Inclusion

Everyone's welcome at Caravan. We respect individual differences in identity, culture and experience, with our team, and with every guest.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.