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Head Chef

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Posted 3 days ago, valid for 25 days
Location

Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1PG

Salary

£35,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The Head Chef position requires a minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
  • The salary for this role is competitive and includes additional benefits such as a 50% discount on specific items after the probation period, tronc, and a workplace pension.
  • Responsibilities include managing kitchen staff, ensuring high-quality dish production, and maintaining cleanliness and compliance with hygiene standards.
  • Candidates must possess strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with a current full driving license.
  • The Head Chef will report to the General Manager and collaborate with the Operations Team and Front of House Managers.

Rewards and Benefits

In addition to your salary, you will receive the following benefits:

  • Discount Following your successful probation period you will receive 50% discount on specific items
  • Tronc
  • Workplace pension

Head chef responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • As required work in our other sites
  • Work alongside the Operations team to bring creative and exciting ideas for new dishes
  • Undertake training, performance reviews, conduct 1:1s and coaching to develop your team to our high standards
  • Daily and weekly ordering, ensuring that produce is quality and price checked and relevantly dealt with if not of good quality or value
  • Produce and serve high-quality dishes and seasonal specials
  • Ensuring wastage is kept to a minimum level
  • Exceptional allergen. Ensure all chefs are complying with these standards
  • Proficiently and confidently run a fast passed kitchen. Leading, directing, and motivating the chef team with passion and enthusiasm to deliver a wow customer experience
  • Ensure the highest level of cleanliness is achieved across all areas of the kitchen, all statutory paperwork is complete and correct to ensure we retain our 5-star hygiene record. In addition to this meeting our internal audits
  • Full responsibility of kitchen teams rota to ensure each day is adequately staffed. Work with the General Manager actively participating in the recruitment process
  • Oversee and ensure all legal paperwork is complete and up to date

Capabilities

  • Strong leader with excellent coaching and mentoring skills
  • Exceptional communication skills, listening as well as talking
  • Positive and enthusiastic approach to work to create a positive team culture
  • Effective multitasker and problem solver Must be able to identify and solve problems as they arise as well as fit management duties around running busy service

Requirements

  • Current full driving license
  • Proven experience of managing and developing a team
  • You must be able to bend, lift and carry items as required and sustain periods of time on your feet
  • Ability to take customer and management feedback on board and effectively pass relevant instructions onto others
  • Smart appearance

Working with

  • Reporting to the General Manager and Operations Team
  • Work alongside Front of House Managers, leading all Chefs & Kitchen Assistants

If this Head Chef position sounds like the ideal opportunity for you then apply to us directly, wed love to hear from you!

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