Sous Chef (Attractive Salary, Live In Available)

Burlington Hotel; Tarbert; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK-based independent hotel is seeking a dedicated hospitality professional with 1-2 years of experience. The role involves ensuring high quality in food preparation and team supervision while maintaining food safety standards. Candidates should be reliable, willing to learn, and passionate about providing exceptional service to guests. The position offers opportunities for personal development and competitive benefits in a supportive and inclusive culture.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Incentives

Discounted hotel stays

Qualifications

• At least 1-2 years of experience in a similar position.
• Strong service delivery skills.
• Passionate about hospitality.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standard of food preparation and presentation.
• Supervise, train, and motivate the team.
• Involved in menu planning and departmental budget control.
• Maintain high standards of quality control for food handling.
• Ensure consistency in dish production.

Skills

Strong experience in hospitality

Ability to deliver great service

Reliable and willing to learn

Job description

Bespoke Benefits… What’s in it for you?

At Bespoke Hotels, our people are our biggest asset. We focus on engagement and individual development, working with natural strengths and supporting education from a commercial perspective. We create pathways so our people know the direction their careers will head.

We believe that great hospitality can only be delivered by a happy, motivated and engaged team; so this is at the heart of our culture and of our ‘Be‑Attitude’ values.

We are proud to provide equal opportunities for our team members, encouraging inclusive and creative culture, providing long‑term careers, supporting community and assisting in environmental matters.

At Bespoke, we ensure meaningful relationships with our colleagues, guests and third‑party suppliers, positively celebrating diversity and inclusion within our teams, encouraging collaboration and creativity.

We offer competitive salaries, incentives, ample scope for personal development and discounted hotel stays for you, your family, and friends.

Requirements:

The ideal person will have strong experience, ideally at least 1‑2 years in a similar position and will have the ability to deliver great service to our guests.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about hospitality, that is reliable and willing to learn as part of this growing team.

Duties will include:

1. You are required to ensure that the preparation and presentation of the food is of a high standard, and complies with food safety regulations.
2. supervising, training and motivating the team to achieve the highest standards.
3. Actively involved in menu planning, compilation and ordering in addition to ensuring that departmental budgets are controlled.
4. Ensuring high standards of quality control, handling and storage of commodities to current legislation, governing handling, storage and processing.
5. Actively ensure that dishes are produced to a consistent high standard.

Being Bespoke:

Bespoke Hotels was founded in 2000 and has consistently grown to the point where we now manage over 9,500 hotel rooms, 8,000 employees and £815 million of assets.

We stand today as the UK’s Largest Independent Hotel Group, owning a number of hotels and partnering with an ever‑increasing portfolio alongside this. Every agreement we have is Bespoke by name, and bespoke by nature. Our properties range from specialist golfing hotels, to award‑winning spa resorts and chic city centre properties.

We pride ourselves on a diverse roster and a unique, individualised management style, with over 90 management agreements across the UK, alongside a further 30 management consultancy services, and 100 hotels with sales & marketing services only.