Sous Chef

Slaughters Inn; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Service charge

Staff accommodation

Perkbox discounts

Free meals on duty

Development pathways

Job summary

The Slaughters Country Inn in the heart of the Cotswolds is hiring a Sous Chef to support the Head Chef in a busy kitchen. You’ll create exciting dishes using top quality ingredients and help maintain high standards across service.

We value teamwork, safety, and continuous development, with a supportive culture, paid service charge, staff accommodation options, meals on duty, and opportunities to progress within the Brownsword Hotels group.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar environment is preferred.
• Knowledge of allergen management and up-to-date safety practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist Head Chef to run a busy kitchen.
• Manage kitchen in Head Chef's absence.
• Write and maintain allergen matrix for guest safety.
• Oversee ordering and stock control to avoid run-outs.

Skills

Knife skills

Allergen training

Food safety

Team leadership

Job description

Location :Set in the heart of one of the most picturesque Cotswold villages, The Slaughters Country Inn offers the authentic charm of a traditional village inn. With 5 AA Gold Stars for Guest Accommodation and 2 AA rosettes, The Slaughters Country Inn offers a relaxed yet professional environment to work in. The hotel may be able to offer both on or off-site staff accommodation, in order to help the newest members of the team re-locate, so they can settle into life at the hotel and local area in comfort, plus there is free parking on-site at the hotel.

SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.

Service charge can be in the region of £260 a month (close to £3,200 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as a SousChef and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, andwe encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards eachother and our guests.

As a Sous Chef, you will beworking alongside the Head Chef to run a busy kitchen. You will be creatingexciting and delicious dishes to be served to guests.

This role would suit someone whohas worked in a similar environment previously.

Check out some of the key pointsabout the role:

• As a skilled chef, you’ll get to really putthose knife skills to the test, cooking with the finest of ingredients.
• We want to keep everyone safe, so you’llneed to keep up to date with the latest allergen training.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen isresponsible for keeping it clean.
• Nobody wants out of date food, so labellingyour food is important.
• As an experienced chef, we encourage you toshare your knowledge with new, budding Junior Sous, CDP’s, KP’s and Commiscoming into the industry.
• You’ll be responsible for managing thekitchen in the absence of the Head Chef.
• Along with the Head Chef, you’ll write theallergen matrix, to ensure that all our guests are kept safe.
• We can’t run out of food, so it’s importantto keep on top of ordering, via Procure Wizard.

Work/life, or as it should be calledlife/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair withour rotas. We just ask that you can beflexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we havemany perks:

• Competitive pay – We are proud thateveryone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay,irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lotsof retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family ofhotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotelsplus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across thegroup & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so weoffer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you requireabout anything you might need as part of our Employee AssistanceProgramme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals whenyou are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, weencourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop -our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in thebusiness.
• We provide lots of opportunity toprogress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions,including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you forevery year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne,afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach thebig milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays,extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotelstogether under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm heartsand experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique,individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything wedo, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feelincluded, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels invery special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – tosee the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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