Sous Chef

Lifeboat Inn, St Ives; St. Ives; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Food & drink discounts

Accommodation discounts

Pension

Training & career development

Cycle to work

Health plan

Rewards

Job summary

The Lifeboat Inn, a traditional pub in St Ives, is seeking a versatile Sous Chef to join our kitchen team. You will support the Head Chef in leading the team and ensuring high-quality dishes are prepared in a fast-paced environment.

Benefit from a generous bonus scheme, food & drink discounts, accommodation discounts within our managed estate, pension and training opportunities as you grow with St Austell Brewery family.

Qualifications

• Experience as a sous chef in a fast-paced kitchen.
• Ability to support Head Chef and lead kitchen team.
• Flexibility with menu writing processes to adapt to business needs.

Responsibilities

• Support Head Chef in leading the kitchen team.
• Ensure procedures and dish specifications are met.
• Adapt menu offerings to meet guest needs and business demand.

Skills

Sous Chef

Leadership

Fast-paced work

Job description

Experience more with St Austell Brewery and help lead our kitchen team!

For over 175 years, St Austell Brewery has been crafting quality beers, running award-winning pubs and serving communities across the South West. Today, we're a leading brewing, hospitality and drinkswholesale business, united by a shared purpose:brewing great experiences for generations to come. Through our commitment to sustainability and forming strong partnerships, we're helping to protect the people, places and communities that make our region special.

The Lifeboat Inn lies at the heart of everything that makes St Ives magical. This traditional inn, complete with roaring log fire, faces the town’s picture-postcard harbour and nestles aptly beside its famous lifeboat house.

Are you aversatileSous Chef with experience of working in a fast-paced environment? Join our talented kitchen team and you’ll be working alongside passionate people, with locally sourced produce, to provide high quality food that delights our guests. As Sous Chef, you will support your Head Chef in leading our talented kitchen team while ensuring the correct procedures are followed and specifications for each dish are precisely met. You will utilise the flexibility enabled by our menu writing processes, to help adapt our offer to meet the needs of our business and our guests.

What we offer in return:

• Competitive and achievable bonus scheme
• 30% discount on food & drink within our managed pubs
• 30% off in our Visitors Centre shop including brands like Yeti, St. Eval, Atlantic blankets
• 50% discount on accommodation within the managed estate
• Fantastic training & career development opportunities
• Pension Scheme - 4% Employee and Employer or increase to 5%
• Cycle to work scheme
• Westfield Health cash plan – Claim money back for Dental, Eye Care, Physio etc.
• Westfield Rewards – Shopping rewards
• Have a voice in shaping our workplace through employee-led forums and working groups, influencing policies, and initiatives
• Access to Thrive, our learning platform packed with training, resources and development opportunities,
• Clear career pathways designed to help you grow

Additional Information

St Austell Brewery is an Equal Opportunities employer, and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We also welcome requests for flexible working.

We politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. Speculative CVs from recruitment agencies won’t be accepted, nor the fees associated with them.