Kitchen Team Member - Chef

Upham Inns; Havant; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible shifts

Meal discount

Hotel discount

Friends & Family discount

Career development

Lifestyle card

Service awards

Birthday gift

Refer a friend incentive

Job summary

Upham Inns is recruiting for a Commis Chef to join our busy kitchens in Southern England. We offer up to £13 per hour plus a share of Tronc (potentially up to £5000 per year) and flexible shift patterns to suit your life.

You’ll have access to meal discounts, hotel and friend/family perks, a clear career pathway to Head Chef, and lifestyle benefits via the Upham lifestyle card. Join a growing pub group with development opportunities and a supportive team culture.

Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of all kitchen sections.
• Ability to work under supervision of a limited range.
• Ability to produce good quality basic food.
• Understanding of health and safety.
• Understanding of basic food hygiene practices.
• Good oral communication.
• Team management skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Right to work in the UK.
• Ability to work unsupervised and deliver quality work.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the food preparation process.
• Cooking and preparing elements of high quality dishes.
• Preparing vegetables, meats and fish.
• Assisting other Chefs.
• Helping with deliveries and restocking.
• Assisting with stock rotation.
• Cleaning stations.
• Maintaining kitchen and food safety standards.
• Comply with Food safety, fire, Health and safety laws.

Skills

Kitchen basics

Team leadership

Attention to detail

Health & safety

Food hygiene

Good communication

UK work rights

Unsupervised delivery

Reliability

Education

None

Tools

Kitchen equipment

Job description

If you are looking for a new challenge in a growing business, then read on!

• Up to £13 per hour 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 over 5,000 discounts across 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 a 100% free benefit for our Upham Inn team members.
• Service Awards
• A Birthday Gift
• Refer a friend and Chef recruitment incentives of up to £1000

Chef Requirements

• Basic knowledge of all sections
• Ability to work under supervision of a limited range
• Ability to produce good quality basic food
• Understanding of health and safety
• Understanding of basic food hygiene practices
• Good oral communication
• Team management skills
• High level of attention to detail
• Right to work in the UK
• Ability to work unsupervised and deliver quality work
• Positive and approachable manner
• Team player qualities

Chef Responsibilities

• Assisting in the food preparation process
• Cooking and preparing elements of high quality dishes
• Preparing vegetables, meats and fish
• Assisting other Chefs
• Helping with deliveries and restocking
• Assisting with stock rotation
• Cleaning stations
• Contributing to maintaining kitchen and food safety standards.
• Comply with all Food safety, fire, Health and safety, licensing and employment laws

A job you can enjoy

If you are a reliable, quick thinking, creative person then a job as a Commis Chef may be the perfect job for you.

If you are enthusiastic about self-development and embrace opportunities to improve your skills and knowledge whenever possible, you could build a long and rewarding career as a Commis Chef, progressing to a role as a Chef de Partie, Sous Chef or Head Chef if desired.

What do we do?

We own a collection of beautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are in idyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be the quality local of the area, serving high quality fresh pub food in a cosy pub ambience. Most of our pubs have some Charming Bedrooms as well. New to our growing family is Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we started rolling 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 busy investing in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want to continue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate people into our team

We are looking for great people to join us

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