Sous Chef

Bespoke Hotels; Rochester; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted hotel stays

Job summary

Bespoke Hotels is looking for a Sous Chef to join its team in the UK. You will lead kitchen operations, ensuring superb food quality and service for guests.

Ideal candidates will have 1–2 years in a similar role, a passion for hospitality, reliability and a willingness to learn as part of a growing team. We offer competitive salaries, development opportunities and discounts on hotel stays for you and your family.

Qualifications

• Requirement: strong experience, ideally 1–2 years in a similar position.
• Hospitality passion, reliability and willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standard food prep and presentation that complies with food safety regulations.
• Supervise, train and motivate the kitchen team to reach peak standards.
• Involve in menu planning, compilation and ordering while helping manage departmental budgets.
• Maintain quality control in handling, storage and processing of commodities.
• Ensure dishes are consistently produced to a high standard.

Skills

Food safety

Team leadership

Menu planning

Budgeting

Job description

We currently have an amazing opportunity to join the team as Sous Chef.

Bespoke Benefits… What’s in it for you?

At Bespoke Hotels, our people are our biggest asset. We focus on engagement and individual development, working with natural strengths and supporting education from a commercial perspective. We create pathways so our people know the direction their careers will head.

We believe that great hospitality can only be delivered by a happy, motivated and engaged team; so this is at the heart of our culture and of our ‘Be-Attitude’ values.

We are proud to provide equal opportunities for our team members, encouraging inclusive and creative culture, providing long-term careers, supporting community and assisting in environmental matters.

At Bespoke, we ensure meaningful relationships with our colleagues, guests and third-party suppliers, positively celebrating diversity and inclusion within our teams, encouraging collaboration and creativity.

We offer competitive salaries, incentives, ample scope for personal development and discounted hotel stays for you, your family, and friends.

Requirements

The ideal person will have strong experience, ideally at least 1-2 years in a similar position and will have the ability to deliver great service to our guests.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about hospitality, that is reliable and willing to learn as part of this growing team.

Duties Will Include

• You are required to ensure that the preparation and presentation of the food is of a high standard, and complies with food safety regulations.
• supervising, training and motivating the team to achieve the highest standards.
• Actively involved in menu planning, compilation and ordering in addition to ensuring that departmental budgets are controlled.
• Ensuring high standards of quality control, handling and storage of commodities to current legislation, governing handling, storage and processing.
• Actively ensure that dishes are produced to a consistent high standard.

Being Bespoke

Bespoke Hotels was founded in 2000 and has consistently grown to the point where we now manage over 9,500 hotel rooms, 8,000 employees and £815 million of assets.

We stand today as the UK’s Largest Independent Hotel Group, owning a number of hotels and partnering with an ever-increasing portfolio alongside this. Every agreement we have is Bespoke by name, and bespoke by nature. Our properties range from specialist golfing hotels, to award-winning spa resorts and chic city centre properties.

We pride ourselves on a diverse roster and a unique, individualised management style, with over 90 management agreements across the UK, alongside a further 30 management consultancy services, and 100 hotels with sales & marketing services only.