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Baxterstorey; Stoke Gifford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Apprenticeships

Pension & life insurance

Perkbox discounts

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work

Job summary

BaxterStorey is seeking a Head Chef for Monday to Friday, day times in Stoke Gifford. The role focuses on leading a kitchen team, delivering exceptional food, and building strong client relationships.

The successful candidate will mentor staff, manage budgets, and push for excellence while upholding BaxterStorey values and standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Sous Chef/Head Chef or similar role.
• Passion for food and delivering memorable guest experiences.
• Experience in training and supporting a team.
• Financially aware with budget management and commercial focus.
• Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire and support direct reports to maintain high standards.
• Build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop the team through training and recognition.
• Drive a culture of excellence with exceptional food standards and innovation.
• Achieve KPI targets including Health & Safety and sustainability.

Skills

Sous Chef experience

Team leadership

Budget management

Food quality

Coaching & delegation

Multi-project prioritisation

Communication skills

Operational excellence

Strategic thinking

Core values alignment

Job description

Head Chef - Monday to Friday, Day Times Only

• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
• 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

Sous Chef looking to take on their first Head Chef role.

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 Sous Chef, 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 best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Company: Baxterstorey

Salary: £33,000 to £33,000 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Stoke Gifford

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 7 Sept 2026

Closing date: 7 Oct 2026