Sous Chef

The Hawk Inn; Sarson; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £34,000 per annum

Tronc share up to £5,000 per year

Flexible shift patterns

Meal discounts for staff

Hotel accommodation discount

Lifestyle card with 5,000+ discounts

Service awards

Birthday gift

Refer a friend incentive £1,000

Job summary

Upham Inns is recruiting a Sous Chef across its Southern England pubs. You will lead, train and develop junior chefs and support the Head Chef in delivering high-quality menus and outstanding service.

Join a growing pub group with clear development pathways, flexible shifts, and strong staff benefits. Be part of a friendly, hands-on team dedicated to quality and guest experience.

Qualifications

• Leadership and mentoring skills.
• Ability to train and develop junior chefs.
• Strong communication with kitchen team and management.
• Right to Work in the UK.
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support Head Chef and management in daily operations.
• Work within company defined menus and recipes.
• Manage staff rosters and allocate tasks.
• Support training and growth of the team.
• Handle food orders, stock control and proper storage.

Skills

Leadership

Training

Communication

Right to Work in UK

Culinary excellence

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 over5,000 discountsacross 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 a100% free benefitfor 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.