Sous Chef

TN United Kingdom; Kenilworth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking culinary team as a Sous Chef, where your passion for real cooking meets a commitment to high-quality ingredients. In this role, you'll lead the kitchen team, ensuring effective operations and maintaining 5-star standards. With a proactive work ethic and excellent communication skills, you'll manage shifts and support the Head Chef in decision-making. Enjoy a range of perks including overtime pay, staff discounts, and opportunities for personal development. If you're ready to take the next step in your culinary career, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Overtime pay

Staff food on every shift

50% off staff discount

28 days holiday

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Company events

Competitions and incentives

Company pension scheme

Long service awards

Support via the Licenced Trade Charity

Qualifications

• Experience as a Sous Chef or Junior Sous Chef aiming for the next step.
• Proven success in training and recruiting kitchen staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead and engage the kitchen team to deliver high-quality meals.
• Manage stocks, Health & Safety, and uphold kitchen standards.

Skills

Chef Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership

Hygiene Knowledge

Stock Management

Decision-Making

Education

Experience as a Sous Chef

Experience with Fresh Ingredients

Job description

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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.

Position: Sous Chef

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, ensuring the kitchen runs effectively and safely. You are detail-oriented, managing stocks, Health & Safety, Hygiene, and manning the pass to ensure our food is on-spec, on-time, and upholding 5-star kitchen standards.

The Good Stuff

• Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours
• Staff food on every shift
• 50% off staff discount from day one
• 28 days holiday (including Bank Holidays), pro-rata
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years of service
• Company events like Loungefest
• Competitions and incentives, including all-expenses-paid trips
• Company pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
• Support via the Licenced Trade Charity
• Opportunities for personal development and career progression
• 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 aiming for the next step
• Experience working with fresh ingredients, demonstrating good chef skills (food prep, hygiene, knife skills)
• A proactive work ethic, leading from the front and maintaining high standards
• Relentless drive and a positive attitude towards challenges
• Knowledge of KPIs and decision-making in the absence of the Head Chef, considering labour, stock, food safety, etc.
• Excellent communication skills to manage stakeholders and build trust with our Ops Chefs and Managers
• Strong knowledge of rota scheduling, sales, labour forecasts, reporting, recruitment, HR
• Proven success in training and recruiting kitchen staff, including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs, and Sous Chefs

If you'd like to learn more about us, follow us on LinkedIn or @life.at.loungers on TikTok and Instagram.