Sous Chef

Premium Village Inns; Pennington; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meals discount

Hotel discount

Lifestyle discounts

Development program

Service awards

Birthday gift

Referral incentive

Job summary

Upham Inns is seeking a talented Sous Chef to join our team of premium pubs across Southern England. You will support the Head Chef, lead and develop junior chefs, and ensure dishes meet our high standards of quality and presentation.

With at least 1 year of Sous or junior Sous chef experience, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced kitchen, manage rosters, order stock and uphold hygiene and safety standards while delivering excellent customer care and a warm, welcoming dining experience.

Qualifications

• Be a strong Leader, with the ability to train, Coach and develop junior chefs
• At least 1 year experience as a Sous/junior Sous chef
• Great communication skills
• Right to Work in the UK
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• To work and support the Head Chef and management
• Experience working within company defined menus and recipes
• Manage staff rosters and allocation of work details
• Be able to fulfil training and growth of the team
• Be able to food order, stock control and correct storage of food stocks
• A Genuine desire to provide high quality food and service
• Maintain and manage the required high operational and personal standard of hygiene and presentation within the team at all times.
• Comply with all Food safety, fire, Health and safety, licensing and employment laws

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Culinary skills

Right to Work in UK

Job description

What’s in it for you?

• Up to £34.000 per annum plus a share of Tronc (this can be up to £5000 per year)


• Flexible shift patterns


• Up to 33% off meals taken off duty for you and up to 6 guests


• 33% off our hotel accommodation & 20% for Friends and Family


• Development program with a clear pathway to Head Chef


• Access to the lifestyle card – which will provide you with instant access to over 5,000 discounts across all aspects of their lifestyle. With thousands of discounts covering local independents, national and online businesses, there are plenty of opportunities to save money. The lifestyle card is a 100% free benefit for our Upham Inn team members.


• Service Awards


• A Birthday Gift


• Refer a friend and Chef recruitment incentives of up to £1000

Sous chef Requirements:

• Be a strong Leader, with the ability to train, Coach and develop junior chefs


• At least 1 year experience as a Sous/junior Sous chef


• Great communication skills


• Right to Work in the UK


• Excellent culinary and presentation skills

Sous Chef Responsibilities:

• To work and support the Head Chef and management


• Experience working within company defined menus and recipes


• Manage staff rosters and allocation of work details


• Be able to fulfil training and growth of the team


• Be able to food order, stock control and correct storage of food stocks


• A Genuine desire to provide high quality food and service


• Maintain and manage the required high operational and personal standard of hygiene and presentation within the team at all times.


• Comply with all Food safety, fire, Health and safety, licensing and employment laws

What do we do?

We own a collection of
beautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are in
idyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be the
quality local of the area, serving high quality fresh pub food in a cozy pub ambience.
Most of our pubs have some Charming Bedrooms as well. New to our growing family
is Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we started
rolling out last year.

It’s an exciting time to join us!

Upham Inns is growing,
and we want you to grow with us and be part of our success. We’ve been busy
investing in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want to
continue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate people
into our team

We are looking for great people to join us

Our company is big
enough to support you but small enough to care about your individual needs. We
are a friendly, hands-on team who have a passion for running great pubs. We are
always on the lookout for like-minded people who have the desire to work and grow
with us.