Are you passionate about fresh, home-grown food and dream of working somewhere that celebrates the best of the countryside?
Our client is launching a brand-new fresh-produce-led food operation in a beautiful rural setting, where fields, farms, and flavour come together. They champion local ingredients, honest cooking, and if you’re excited by the idea of helping shape something authentic, ambitious, and rooted in real food, this could be the opportunity for you.
We are looking for a Head Chef who’s ready to take the reins, drive standards, lead a talented brigade, and be a part of something bigger - there is lots of scope to implement your ideas in the business!
We are on the hunt for a driven, creative, passionate Head Chef who can build, train and lead a team. We are looking for a calm, natural leader with a huge passion for creating quality dishes, someone that gets a real kick out of coaching, motivating and developing their team. All whilst ensuring that customer satisfaction and quality standards are of paramount priority.
The role:
- As the Head Chef you will be accountable for each and every area of the kitchen operation.
- You will oversee the preparation and production of quality dishes with a real focus on consistency.
- You will engage your team to keep them motivated, informed and passionate about the business.
- You will be passionate about retaining and developing your team, with clear succession plans to ensure the right people are in the right place.
- You will be responsible for all Health and Safety and Food Hygiene within the kitchen, including training where necessary.
- Working closely with the General Manager you will be responsible for GP, Stock ordering and rotation as well as minimising wastage.
Required experience:
- Solid hands-on Head Chef experience in a busy, high-volume kitchen.
- Excellent food knowledge and strong people management as well as back of house/kitchen management experience.
- A real role model with an appetite for success and the drive to deliver exceptional results and standards.
- Good financial knowledge (P&L, GPs, revenue, quality/portion control) or at least a knowledge of the impact it has on the business
- Experience of leading, motivating, mentoring, training and developing a team of different personalities, levels of creativity and skillsets.
- A strong multi-tasker with the ability to work well under pressure.
- The ability to recruit, train, mentor, motivate and inspire your team with a focus on development and internal progression.
- The ability to ensure that the team are working to the highest standards, adhering to all policies and procedures.
- The desire to grow and develop your career with a successful, expanding company that will continue to grow.
- 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
Should you be successful, you will benefit from:
- Basic salary of up to £50,000 per annum
- Performance related bonus
- Generous service charge
Hesketh James are committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome all applicants regardless of identity, personal characteristics or background.
Please note: We are expecting a high number of applications for this role and will be in touch with successful candidates within 72 hours of your application. Should you not hear from us within this period, we regret that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.