Sous Chef

The Queen's Head; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Overtime paid

Uniform provided

6-hour shift meal

50% food discount

Birthday voucher £100

Rewards & giveaways

Service length rewards

Health support 24/7

Chickpea Awards Bash

Team trips

Promotion pathways

Training programmes

Job summary

The Queen's Head in Salisbury is seeking a Sous Chef who leads by example and collaborates with the Head Chef to deliver seasonal, locally sourced food made from scratch. This role emphasizes high standards, team mentoring, and contributing to menu development in a busy pub kitchen.

Join a supportive team with flexible patterns, paid overtime, and staff perks as part of our community-minded rural hospitality approach.

Qualifications

• Lead the kitchen under the Head Chef.
• Deliver seasonal, locally sourced food from scratch.
• Maintain high food quality and kitchen standards.
• Train, mentor, and motivate the team.
• Create a positive, collaborative working environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head Chef in leading the kitchen.
• Help deliver seasonal, locally sourced food made from scratch.
• Maintain high food quality and kitchen standards.
• Train, mentor, and motivate the team.
• Ensure smooth service and contribute ideas to menu development.
• Help create a positive, collaborative working environment.

Job description

Sous Chef –

PUB BIO

Food sits at the heart of everything we do. We cook with the seasons, work closely with local suppliers, and let great produce lead the menu. We keep things simple, make as much as we can from scratch and believe brilliant ingredients don't need unnecessary fuss.

We're looking for a Sous Chef who leads by example, sets high standards, and collaborates with the Head Chef to create a kitchen where people can thrive. Our food ethos is shaped collaboratively by the kitchen teams across the group, so your role is to help deliver it brilliantly, service after service, while contributing to an environment where people can develop and do their best work.

The good stuff –

• Flexible working patterns and paid overtime.
• Uniform is provided and laundered.
• You eat from the menu if you work six hours.
• Enjoy 50% off food at any of our pubs (Monday-Thursday).
• £100 voucher on your Birthday to spend at any of our places.
• Each month there are rewards and giveaways.
• We mark length of service.
• 24/7 support available for your mental, physical and financial health.
• We host the Annual Chickpea Awards Bash, to celebrate our teams.
• Team trips and away days.
• Clear promotion pathways.
• Training programmes built around you.

Our mission –

At Chickpea, we're reimagining rural hospitality.

That means bringing well-loved pubs back to life, serving honest food and decent booze, and creating places where locals, regulars and visitors all feel at home.

We're founder-owned and seven years in. Today, we run ten pubs across the Southwest, but the idea hasn't changed much since day one. Great pubs are built by great people. We trust our people to make decisions, giving them room to grow, celebrating the good days and backing each other through the chaotic ones too.

As Sous Chef, you will:

• Support the Head Chef in leading the kitchen.
• Help deliver seasonal, locally sourced food made from scratch.
• Maintain high food quality and kitchen standards.
• Train, mentor, and motivate the team.
• Ensure smooth service and contribute ideas to menu development.
• Help create a positive, collaborative working environment.