Sous Chef

jobs24.co.uk; Burnley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and successful restaurant group in the UK as a Sous Chef. This exciting role offers the chance to lead a high-performing kitchen team, ensuring the delivery of exceptional food standards using fresh, high-quality ingredients. You'll be the right hand of the Head Chef, managing shifts, training staff, and maintaining hygiene and safety protocols. With a strong emphasis on real cooking and customer satisfaction, this position is perfect for those passionate about culinary excellence. Enjoy a supportive environment with opportunities for personal development and career progression in a fast-growing business.

Benefits

Staff food on every shift

50% off staff discount

Paid breaks

28 days holiday

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Staff party - Loungefest

Competitions and incentives

Company pension scheme

Long service awards

Wagestream for pay management

Emotional and practical support

Career progression opportunities

Achievable bonuses

Tips shared equally

Christmas and Boxing Day off

Qualifications

• Experience as a Sous Chef or Junior Sous Chef with a focus on fresh ingredients.
• Strong kitchen skills including food prep, hygiene, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead shifts and ensure kitchen runs effectively and safely.
• Deliver training and recruitment for kitchen teams including apprentices.

Skills

Kitchen Skills

Food Preparation

Communication Skills

Leadership

Hygiene Practices

KPI Familiarity

Education

Culinary Training

Food Safety Certification

Job description

You are probably an existing Sous Chef, or perhaps a Junior Sous Chef/Assistant Kitchen Manager that is looking to take the next step in their career.

You will have experience of working with fresh ingredients and be able to demonstrate good chef/kitchen skills (food prep hot and cold, cleaning, knife skills, good hygiene practices).

Your work ethic is rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in and leading from the front; playing an active role in delivering excellent kitchen and food standards as part of a high performing team.

Extremely driven and relentless at deconstructing the can't mentality.

Familiar with KPIs and making decisions in the absence of the Head Chef considering labour; stock; food safety requirements plus others.

Epic communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholders and build rapport and trust (that would be with our Ops Chefs and Ops Managers).

Strong knowledge of best practice around rota scheduling, sales and labour forecasts, reporting, recruitment, HR etc.

You will have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs and Sous Chefs.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our new opening and become part of one of the most successful restaurant groups in the UK.

You love real cooking. We love real cooking. Customers love real cooking. It's a no-brainer so you wonder why so many other places don't do it. We do it, and you'll be doing it with us - fresh, customer led, and with high-quality ingredients. As Sous Chef, you'll be the Head Chef's go-to for support, leading and engaging the kitchen team to deliver 14 great shifts week in, week out. You'll be leading shifts, making sure the kitchen runs effectively and safely. You're as relentless as us about the detail, so you'll be all over things like stocks, Health & Safety and Hygiene, manning the pass to ensure our food goes out on-spec and on-time, and always upholding 5 kitchen standards. You'll be on it. Like a chef's bonnet.

Benefits:

1. Staff food on every shift
2. 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
3. Paid breaks
4. 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
5. Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
6. The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest!
7. Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our suppliers)
8. Company pension scheme
9. Long service awards
10. Power over your pay with Wagestream
11. Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
12. Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast growing business
13. Achievable bonuses
14. Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
15. Christmas and Boxing Day off!