Sous Chef

Harpers Haslemere; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tronc share

Meal discount off duty

Hotel discount

Lifestyle card discounts

Service awards

Birthday gift

Refer a friend incentive

Leadership development

Job summary

Upham Inns, owner of a collection of premium pubs across Southern England, seeks a proactive Sous Chef to support the Head Chef and lead a talented kitchen team at Harper’s Haslemere. You will work within established menus, manage rosters, and drive high-quality food and presentation in line with brand standards.

We value strong leadership, excellent culinary skills, and a genuine desire to train and develop junior chefs, all while maintaining top hygiene and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and the ability to train and develop junior chefs.
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills.
• Experience as a Sous or junior Sous chef with at least 1 year in the role.
• Commitment to high standards of hygiene and food safety.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head Chef and management in daily kitchen operations.
• Work within company-defined menus and recipes.
• Roster management and allocation of kitchen duties.
• Train and grow the kitchen team; provide coaching and feedback.
• Handle food orders, stock control and proper storage.
• Maintain high operational and personal hygiene standards at all times.
• Comply with food safety, health and safety, licensing and related laws.

Skills

Leadership

Culinary skill

Food hygiene

Stock control

Team coaching

Menu adherence

Job description

• 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 over 5,000 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 a 100% 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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