Sous Chef

Hickory's Smokehouse; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Hickory's Smokehouse as a Sous Chef and embark on an exciting culinary career. With a generous package of up to £38,000 per year, you will lead the kitchen and mentor your team while enjoying various benefits, including excellent training opportunities and a commitment to work-life balance.

Benefits

Tip Jar

Birthday reward meal

Free smokin’ BBQ on shift

Christmas Day off work

Paid occasion days off

Team Player card discount

Road trips

Wellbeing support

Refer a friend scheme bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen leadership role.
• Passion for Southern-style cuisine.
• Strong communication and team-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the kitchen in the Head Chef’s absence.
• Coaching and mentoring the team.
• Delivering high-quality food and maintaining kitchen standards.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Cuisine Knowledge

Teamwork

Education

Culinary Qualification

Job description

Start an exciting new chapter in your hospitality career at Hickory's Smokehouse - We arethrilled to have been recently crowned the‘Best Pub Employer’ for 2025 at The Publican Awards!

Join us as a Sous Chef and we can offer you a generous package of up to £38,000 per year including Tip Jar!

We’re looking for a Sous Chef to join our passionate brigade of BBQ enthusiasts, you will be responsible for the kitchen in the Head Chef’s absence, as well as coaching and mentoring the team, and in doing so you will be working towards becoming a Head Chef yourself. You will be working with and leading the team to deliver authentic fresh food and deliver the very best food that our Smokehouse can offer. Our kitchen’s are not only centres of excellence for Southern style cuisine, they are also important training grounds for our talented team.

As the fastest growing, Southern style Smokehouse group in the UK with an award-winning Hickory’s Training Academy, we can offer you real progression opportunities as we expand. And, we have a company culture that really cares & embraces work-life – balance.

Thank You’s & Benefits:

• A generous Sous Chef package of up to £38,000 per year including Tip Jar!
• The chance to work in one of our £250k bespoke built kitchens, with authentic smokers imported all the way from USA
• Excellent training & progression opportunities – through our award-winning Hickory’s Training Academy
• Birthday reward meal on us for you & your friends - every year
• Free smokin’ BBQ on shift – team food & drinks menu
• Christmas Day off work - every year
• Moments that matter – paid occasion days off (Wedding day, kid’s first day at school, moving into first home & more)
• Team Player card – 25% discount for you & 5 friends in all Hickory’s (rising to 50% for loyal service)
• Road trips to the Southern States, Europe & UK and stacks of enrichment opportunities
• Wellbeing support & 24-hour access to our wellness programme, plus a Wellbeing Champion in each restaurant to support you
• Our pledge to a work-life balance – monitoring & managing through our Red Zone
• A chance to ‘give a bit back’ with fundraising activities for Cash For Kids
• Up to £500 for you – through the refer a friend scheme

So, if all of that sounds amazing to you and you want to come and be a Hickory's Smokehouse Sous Chef, then click ‘apply’ now!