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Head Chef Hotel

Hesketh James Recruitment
Posted a day ago, valid for a month
Location

Chester, Cheshire CH12JH, England

Salary

£40,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

Retirement Plan
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance

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  • The Head Chef position in Chester offers a salary of £40,000 plus a £6,000 OTE bonus and service charge.
  • Candidates are required to have solid hands-on experience as a Head Chef, Kitchen Manager, or a Senior Sous Chef ready to lead their own kitchen.
  • The role demands a passion for delivering outstanding food and maintaining high performance standards while ensuring a clean and hygienic kitchen environment.
  • Strong leadership skills are essential for motivating and training a diverse kitchen team, along with financial knowledge related to costs and quality control.
  • The company provides an impressive benefits package, including health club membership, discounts, insurance plans, and enhanced maternity and paternity benefits.

Head Chef

Location: Chester

Salary: £40,000 + £6000 (OTE bonus) + service charge + amazing benefits package

Required experience:

  • Solid hands-on experience as Head Chef/Kitchen Manager or a Senior Sous Chef looking to take on their own kitchen.
  • A real passion to provide outstanding food, working hard to maintain and improve performance in order to provide well-presented quality dishes.
  • Ensuring a clean and hygienic kitchen environment following food safety management procedures and records that meet all required standards.
  • Experience of leading, motivating, training and developing a team of different personalities, levels of creativity and skillsets.
  • Strong financial knowledge (GPs, revenue, quality/portion control)
  • A great personality - fun, passionate, charismatic, enthusiastic, people-focused and adaptable to all personalities.
  • A great communicator - excellent at developing relationships with the kitchen team, front of house team, senior management and others involved
  • The ability to ensure that the team are working to the highest standards, adhering to all policies and procedures as well as running a busy efficient shift and looking after all back of house duties related to the kitchen - stock ordering, stock control, labour, rotas etc.

Should you be successful, you will benefit from:

  • Complimentary Health Club Membership for yourself and a family member.
  • Group wide hotel and food and beverage discounts.
  • Health cash plan
  • Wagestream
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Sick pay insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Electric car salary sacrifice
  • Birthday off
  • Company pension scheme
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and pay
  • Free parking

This is a quality company with an excellent reputation and offers great scope for future development.

In order to ensure your enquiry with regards to this position is dealt with quickly, please send in an up-to-date copy of your Curriculum Vitae in a Word Document format.

Hesketh James is committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome all applicants regardless of identity, personal characteristics, or background.

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