Sous Chef

The Running Horse; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal discounts up to 33%

Hotel discount 33% & 20% for Friends &

Lifestyle card – 5,000+ discounts (100

Service awards

Birthday gift

Refer a friend incentive up to £1000

Job summary

Upham Inns in the United Kingdom is seeking a proactive Sous Chef to support the Head Chef and management across our premium pubs. The role offers a clear pathway to progression with strong leadership expectations.

You will work within company-defined menus, manage rosters, train and develop junior chefs, handle food orders and stock control, and maintain the highest hygiene and presentation standards while delivering exceptional food and service.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year experience as a Sous/junior Sous chef.
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills.
• Right to Work in the UK.
• Strong leadership and team development abilities.

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

Coaching

Culinary skills

Presentation skills

Job description

• Up to £34.000 per annum plus a share of Tronc (this can be up to £5000 per year)
• 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
• 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
• 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 ofbeautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are inidyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be thequality 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 familyis Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we startedrolling 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 busyinvesting in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want tocontinue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate peopleinto our team

We are looking for great people to join us

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

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