Sous Chef

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Join Our Kitchen Team as a Sous Chef

We love real cooking — fresh, customer-led, and high-quality. Customers love it too, and we do it differently. As a Sous Chef, you'll support the Head Chef, lead and engage the kitchen team to deliver 14 great shifts a week.

Your responsibilities include leading shifts, ensuring the kitchen runs effectively and safely, managing stocks, health & safety, hygiene, and maintaining 5-star kitchen standards. You're detail-oriented and proactive, ensuring food is prepared and served on time and to specification.

The Good Stuff

• Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours
• Staff food on every shift
• 50% staff discount outside working hours from day one
• 28 days holiday (including Bank Holidays), pro-rata
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years of service
• Exclusive staff events like Loungefest
• Competitions and incentives, including trips
• Company pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
• Support via the Licensed Trade Charity
• Opportunities for personal development and career growth
• Tips shared equally based on hours worked
• Christmas and Boxing Day off

What You'll Bring

• Experience as a Sous Chef or Junior Sous Chef/Assistant Kitchen Manager
• Experience working with fresh ingredients and strong kitchen skills
• Proactive work ethic, leading from the front, ensuring high standards
• Driven and relentless in overcoming challenges
• Knowledge of KPIs and decision-making in the absence of the Head Chef
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder management
• Knowledge of rota scheduling, sales, labour forecasts, recruitment, and HR
• Experience in training and recruiting kitchen staff

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