Kitchen Manager - Notcutts St Albans Garden Centre

Notcutts Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

Career growth and central F&B support

Job summary

Notcutts is hiring a Kitchen Manager/Head Chef to lead our busy garden centre restaurant kitchen. You’ll focus on daytime service, from 9:00am to 5:00pm, with no evenings or split shifts, and you’ll balance your passion for food with life outside work.

You’ll develop your team, manage stock and wastage, ensure health and safety standards (level 3 food hygiene), and deliver meals that meet our brand specifications while driving great profits.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing stock levels and controlling wastage.
• Knowledge of health and safety requirements in a commercial kitchen.
• Food hygiene qualification at Level 3.

Responsibilities

• Lead the kitchen team to deliver meals to brand specifications.
• Hands-on dish preparation during daytime service.
• Maintain stock control and reduce wastage.

Skills

Team leadership

Stock management

Food preparation

Food hygiene Level 3

Health & safety knowledge

Education

Food hygiene qualification Level 3

Job description

Apply Before: 31 October 2026

Full Time - 40 hours per week (to include weekends and Bank Holidays on a rota basis) Day time hours, No evenings, nights or split shifts

You love food. And you’re great at creating fresh food for customers to enjoy. What you probably don’t enjoy is working late at night or split shifts. As a Notcutts Kitchen Manager/Head Chef you’ll balance your passion for food with the rest of your life. With us, you only work daytime hours.

Our restaurants are at the heart of our garden centres and an important reason for customers to visit us. Your attention to detail and organisation will mean excellent customer service is as important to you as the ingredients on your menu. You will equally be passionate about motivating, leading and training your team to ensure you develop great chefs to deliver great food and great profits.

We’re looking for a Kitchen Manager to lead our busy kitchen team in our Garden Centre Restaurant . Our restaurant is open from 9:00am to 5:00pm, serving breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. No more evening service and late nights! We would like you to have commercial acumen, experience of managing stock levels and controlling wastage and knowledge of health and safety requirements within a commercial kitchen with your food hygiene qualification at level 3.

You will also have experience and be comfortable with being hands on working alongside your team to prepare dishes on a daily basis to brand specifications.

In return, our Kitchen Manager will receive:

• Free onsite parking
• Potential career growth opportunities and huge support from our central F & B team

As a national Garden Centre group, we know how important nature is for wellbeing, but we also provide a free and confidential employee assistance programme for anyone who needs additional support. And here’s something important to know. There’s no such thing as a perfect job candidate, so don’t hold back on applying, we’d love to hear from you.

Notcutts is a place where everyone (and everything!) can grow. We’re committed to equality of opportunity and we welcome applications from every part of our community and beyond.

We regret we can currently only contact candidates who we would like to invite for interview. If you don’t hear from us regarding your application, we are sorry that you haven’t been successful this time.

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