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Baxterstorey; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Paid birthday off

Maternity leave 26 weeks

Carer leave

Wedding/commitment day leave

Free meals on shift

Training and development

Pension

Perkbox discounts

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

BaxterStorey is seeking a skilled Head Chef to lead and inspire a culinary team within a dynamic workplace hospitality environment. You will set standards, mentor staff, and deliver exceptional dining experiences across client locations.

This role offers a competitive salary with benefits, Monday to Friday hours with no weekends or evenings, and strong opportunities for growth and development within the BaxterStorey family. Join us to elevate food service standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as Head Chef or similar role.
• Ability to manage, train and support a team.
• Financially astute with budgeting and commercial focus.
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Mentor, train, recognize and empower your team for growth.
• Create a culture of excellence through caring service, high food standards and innovation.
• Achieve key KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.

Skills

Head Chef experience

Team management

Budgeting & finance

Coaching & delegation

Communication

Strategic thinking

Job description

Competitive Salary with great benefits package

Monday to Friday Role - No weekends or evenings

Great Opportunities for growth and development

• 28Days holiday including bank holidays
• Plus your birthday as paid day off
• 26week’s enhanced maternity leave.
• Secondary carerleave (enhanced; 4 weeks)
• Paid Wedding/commitment day leave.
• Free meals on shift.
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Pension and life insurance.
• Discounts available on our Perkbox app; high street shops, holidays & cinema
• Access to employee assistance programme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Calling all culinary connoisseurs that are OBSESSED about food, we need you! If you have an insatiable appetite for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create food that delights customers and clients, then look no further. At BaxterStorey we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish, your talents can shine and we wholeheartedly believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft and create a development partnership together to ensure professional growth opportunities.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled

Head Chef to make a name for themselves within the food service industry and be a part of setting the new standard for workplace hospitality.

Job Description

• Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
• Build positive, credible and collaborativerelationships & communication methods with clientsand other key stakeholders in the business.
• Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
• Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation.
• Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
• Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
• You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
• Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
• Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
• Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
• Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
• Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
• Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
• Works according to the BaxterStorey core values

Additional Information

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the