Sous Chef - Hourly Paid

Lounge; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A popular hospitality restaurant in the UK is seeking a Sous Chef to lead kitchen shifts and ensure high standards. Responsibilities include managing stocks and health & safety, as well as training kitchen staff. The ideal candidate has experience with fresh ingredients and possesses strong leadership and communication skills. Competitive pay and fantastic benefits are offered.

Benefits

Hourly pay up to £14.00ph + tips

Guaranteed contracted hours

Staff discount

Paid breaks

28 days holiday pro rata

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Company pension scheme

Power over your pay with Wagestream

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a Sous Chef, Junior Sous Chef, or Assistant Kitchen Manager.
• Ability to work with fresh ingredients and good hygiene practices.
• Strong work ethic with a proactive approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead kitchen shifts and ensure kitchen runs effectively.
• Manage stocks, health & safety, and uphold hygiene standards.
• Train and recruit kitchen team members, including apprentices.

Skills

Fresh ingredient handling

Chef skills (food prep, cleaning, knife skills)

Team leadership

Communication skills

Knowledge of KPIs and labour management

Job description

Join the Lounge family and earn up to £14 an hour with guaranteed minimum hours of 40 or 48 hours a week! Plus, enjoy our fantastic benefits and grow your hospitality career with us!

The Good Stuff

• Hourly pay up to £14.00ph + tips
• We guarantee you contracted hours every week!
• We work hard to ensure you don't work over your contracted hours, but if at times this does happen you will receive overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours!
• Staff food on every shift
• 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
• Paid breaks
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
• The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest!
• Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our suppliers)
• Company pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
• Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
• Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast growing business
• Achievable bonuses
• Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
• Christmas and Boxing Day off!

You love real cooking. We love real cooking. Customers love real cooking. It's a no-brainer so you wonder why so many other places don't do it. We do it, and you'll be doing it with us - fresh, customer led, and with high-quality ingredients. As Sous Chef, you'll be the Head Chefs' go-to for support, leading and engaging the kitchen team to deliver 14 great shifts week in, week out.

You'll be leading shifts, making sure the kitchen runs effectively and safely. You're as relentless as us about the detail, so you'll be all over things like stocks, Health & Safety and Hygiene, manning the pass to ensure our food goes out on-spec and on-time, and always upholding 5* kitchen standards. You'll be on it. Like a chef's bonnet

What you'll bring

• You are probably an existing Sous Chef, or perhaps a Junior Sous Chef/Assistant Kitchen Manager that is looking to take the next step in their career.
• You will have experience of working with fresh ingredients and be able to demonstrate good chef/kitchen skills (food prep hot and cold, cleaning, knife skills, good hygiene practices)
• Your work ethic is rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in and leading from the front; playing an active role in delivering excellent kitchen and food standards as part of a high performing team.
• Extremely driven and relentless at deconstructing the can't mentality.
• Familiar with KPIs and making decisions in the absence of the Head Chef considering labour; stock; food safety requirements plus others.
• Epic communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholders and build rapport and trust (that would be with our Ops Chefs and Ops Managers).
• Strong knowledge of best practice around rota scheduling, sales and labour forecasts, reporting, recruitment, HR etc.
• You will have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs and Sous Chefs.

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