Sous Chef

Beech House Amersham; Amersham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share of Tronc

Live-in option

Meal discounts

Lifestyle card

Service awards

Birthday gift

Refer a friend incentive

Job summary

Upham Inns seeks a talented Sous Chef at Beech House Amersham to lead and support the kitchen team, delivering high-quality dishes in line with our menus. You will work closely with the Head Chef and management to maintain performance and standards.

This role offers up to £38,000 per year plus an annual share of Tronc, flexible shift patterns, live-in options, and development toward Head Chef, plus staff perks and discounts.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership with ability to train and develop junior chefs.
• Minimum 1 year experience as Sous Chef or Junior Sous Chef.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Right to Work in the UK.
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support Head Chef and management.
• Work within company-defined menus and recipes.
• Manage staff rosters and allocation of work.
• Train and grow the team.
• Handle food orders, stock control and storage.
• Deliver high quality food and service.
• Maintain hygiene and presentation standards; comply with safety laws.

Skills

Leadership

Sous Chef experience

Communication skills

Right to Work UK

Culinary & presentation

Job description

What’s in it for you?

• Up to £38.000 per annum plus a share of Tronc (this can be up to £6000 per year)
• Flexible shift patterns
• Up to 33% off meals taken off duty for you and up to 6 guests
• Live in available
• 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 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

Sous chef Requirements:

• Be a strong Leader, with the ability to train, Coach and develop junior chefs
• At least 1 year experience as a Sous/junior Sous chef
• Great communication skills
• Right to Work in the UK
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills

Sous Chef Responsibilities:

• To work and support the Head Chef and management
• Experience working within company defined menus and recipes
• Manage staff rosters and allocation of work details
• Be able to fulfil training and growth of the team
• Be able to food order, stock control and correct storage of food stocks
• A Genuine desire to provide high quality food and service
• Maintain and manage the required high operational and personal standard of hygiene and presentation within the team at all times.
• Comply with all Food safety, fire, Health and safety, licensing and employment laws

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 cozy 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.