second Sous Chef

Young's; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food flagship site seeks a Second Sous Chef to join its growing team in London. You'll lead a dedicated kitchen team, create innovative dishes, and ensure food quality and service excellence while enjoying benefits such as culinary training, a share-save scheme, and generous holidays.

Benefits

Access to Head Chef development programme

Autonomy to create menus

Access to Apprenticeship Scheme

Regular culinary masterclasses

Free meals

20% discount in all Young’s pubs and hotels

Share save Scheme

Company Pension Scheme

28 Days Holiday per year

Qualifications

• Experience as a Sous Chef or Senior CDP.
• Natural leader with a passion for quality food.
• Hands-on Chef with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage kitchen staff rota, training, and health and safety.
• Design and deliver new dishes for menus and specials.
• Drive sales and deliver growth with the kitchen and front of house teams.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Creativity

Planning and Organisational Skills

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About us:

We are a food flagship site of Youngs.co, that gives you full flexibility to create dishes from scratch, cooking from the heart using only fresh ingredients. With the business growing, we are now looking for extra support for our current team of 10 chefs.

What we offer our
Sous Chefs:

• Access to our Sous Chef - Head Chef development Programme: the majority of our head chefs are internal appointments
• Autonomy to create
  your own menus and specials, alongside your Head Chef
• Access to our Apprenticeship Scheme - Gain a nationally recognised qualification
• Access to regular culinary masterclasses and training days to boost your skills
• Free meals
• 20% discount in all Young’s pubs and hotels
• Share save Scheme
• Company Pension Scheme
• 28 Days Holiday per year

What we look for in a Sous Chef:

We are looking for an existing
Sous Chef or Senior CDP looking for their next step, who considers themselves
as a natural leader with a passion and flare for producing quality fresh food
in an environment that makes people feel welcome. As the successful Sous Chef
you will:

• Have experience championing excellent service
  through quality food
• Demonstrate a passion for leading and developing
  a team
• Be an active hands-on Chef with excellent
  communication skills
• Be responsible and able to manage the kitchen
  staff rota, training and all health and safety effectively at all times
• Working alongside your Head Chef, you will be
  able to demonstrate your creativity and ability by helping to design and
  deliver new dishes for our menus and daily specials
• Demonstrate great planning and organisational
  skills, necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP and
  labour
• Have a pro-active approach to driving sales and
  delivering growth, through engagement with both kitchen and front of house
  teams

Thanks for your interest in working with Young's. If you would like to be part of our team, apply now!