Senior Sous Chef

Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 46 000 - 50 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Free meals & drinks when working

Dining discount

Coffee discount

Bike to work scheme

Mental health and well-being support

Financial health education and support

Leadership training and development

Birthday & Anniversary Treat

Development and career progression

Résumé du poste

Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters in London is seeking a Senior Sous Chef to lead a busy kitchen team, delivering our well-travelled dishes inspired by New Zealand roots and global flavours. This permanent, full-time role offers a competitive salary and the chance to shape a growing brand.

You will work closely with the Head Chef, mentor your team, run service with energy and care, and embrace our sustainability and inclusion values.

Responsabilités

• Lead and manage a busy kitchen, ensuring high standards across all services.
• Collaborate with Head Chef to develop team skills and service execution.
• Maintain food quality and consistency with Caravan’s well-travelled menu.
• Use Fourth/FnB/Harri systems as applicable in daily operations.

Description du poste

Senior Sous Chef

Company: Caravan Restaurants and Coffee Roasters

Salary: £46,000 to £50,000 a year

Location: London, WC2B 5RH

Hours: Full-time

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 8 Oct 2026

Closing date: 7 Nov 2026

Summary

Overall Earnings -From £46,000-£50,000 per year.

At Caravan, we share a love of mighty fine coffee, good food and friendly vibes. Over the past 10 years, we have built our award-winning restaurants and roastery as well asinvesting time, money and resources into initiatives that have a positive impact on the world around us. We believe in pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions, championing people, community, diversity, inclusion and sustainability.

We're thrilled to have the opportunity to invite a fun, talented, prolific Senior Sous Chef who knows how to lead, support & inspire a team, and who's passionate about cuisine and wants to share that passion with their team & guests. We would love to hear from you if you’ve got experience cooking fresh ingredients, managing a kitchen and you’re up for a new venture. It’s an exciting time to join us as we’re looking forward to expanding in the coming years.

Benefits

• Free meals & drinks when working
• Dining discount when visiting with family & friends.
• Coffee discount
• Bike to work scheme
• Mental health and well-being support
• Financial health education and support
• Leadership training and development
• Birthday & Anniversary Treat - on your birthday and on your work anniversary, you'll receive a Caravan voucher to spend in any of our restaurants
• Development and career progression, 80% of all our management roles are filled internally.

What you'll be doing as a Caravan Senior Sous Chef

• You’ll be serving up our ‘well-travelled’ food, which is inspired by flavours from our founders’ native New Zealand, as well as their global travels.
• Support the restaurant team with our ‘Caravan of Love’ customer experience
• You will work with your Head Chef to nurture and develop your team leading them from the front in every service.
• You will be open to learning in order to develop your knowledge and skills and you’ll take ownership of your role and your kitchen.
• We work with Fourth, FnB and Harri so it would be great if you have experience with these systems, although we can always show you the ropes if you haven’t.

Caravan Values

• Caravan of Love
• No boundaries
• Well-travelled
• All welcome

Sustainability

• We expect our teams to support environmental stewardship targets and efficiency goals by following departmental environmental policies and monitoring own usage of vital resources such as energy, disposable goods, and food waste, to name a few.

Diversity & Inclusion

• All our teams must respect individual differences with regards to identity, national and cultural background, and level of experience in all interactions while at work, including with members of the public.

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