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Blue Arrow Derby is proud to be working in partnership with an excellent manufacturing & visitor attraction client within the Staffordshire area who are looking to recruit a Sous Chef on a full time, permanent basis to join their team.\n\nOur client is expanding their much-loved destination café into a 200-cover operation supported by a brand-new, purpose-catering facility within their bustling retail site. This is a pivotal moment in their journey -therefore are looking for a passionate and driven Sous Chef to join and play a key role in shaping this exciting new chapter.\n\nHours: 40 hours per week - working 5 out of 7 days a week (on a 2-week rotation with every other weekend off)\n\n8:30am - 4:30pm with a 4:00pm finish on Sundays \n\nSalary: £14.21 p/h / £29,558 per annum - with a chance to also earn extra commission \n\nThe Sous Chef will be a vital member of the kitchen team, acting as the Head Chef's right hand and taking on a wide range of responsibilities. From recipe development and food preparation to team supervision and food safety, you'll play a key role in delivering an outstanding customer experience.\n\nWhat will you be doing in the Sous Chef role?\n\n· Food Preparation: Follow recipes and prepare dishes to high standards of quality and consistency.\n\nSupervision: Train, motivate, and lead kitchen staff, ensuring an efficient and happy team.\nMenu Planning: Assist in designing creative, seasonal menus and daily specials.\nInventory Management: Order supplies, manage stock and control kitchen costs effectively.\nFood Safety & Hygiene: Maintain top-tier cleanliness and safety across all kitchen operations.\nOperational Support: Provide hands-on support to always ensure smooth service.\nAdministrative Tasks: Manage paperwork, stock records, and kitchen documentation.\nCulinary Expertise: Demonstrate strong cooking skills and accuracy in food preparation.\nLeadership & Teamwork: Support a positive, collaborative kitchen environment.\nOrganisation & Time Management: Ensure efficient planning and compliance with safety regulations.\nCommunication: Communicate clearly with both kitchen staff and front-of-house teams.What will you bring to the Sous Chef role?\n\n· Previous experience as a Sous Chef is essential \n\n· Previous experience working within a café/visitor attraction/restaurant environment is highly desirable\n\n· Food hygiene level 2 (dated within the last three years) is essential\n\n· Food Allergens (desirable) \n\n· Creative and innovative approach\n\n· Excellent communication skills\n\n· Confident with a good sense of humour\n\n· Strong organisational and time management\n\n· Calm under pressure\n\n· Ability to manage workload and priorities\n\n· Attention to detail\n\n· Positive, enthusiastic attitude\n\n· Strong team-player\n\n· Multi-tasking ability\n\n· Willingness to undertake training\n\nWhy should you apply for the Sous Chef role?\n\nThis is more than just a job - it's a chance to help lead the transition into the new café/kitchen space, support the Head Chef and senior management team with menu development, team direction, and the overall kitchen organisation. You'll take your lead in the Head Chef's absence ensure our team is inspired, organised, ready to deliver exceptional food to our growing number of guests.\n\nIf you are interested in the above role and feel you can meet the above requirements - we would love to hear from you as soon as possible. We please ask all applications are made via the click apply button, and we will aim to process your application as quickly and as efficiently as possible.\n\nBlue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people

Relief Head Chef - Northern Region - Up to £50,000 + car allowance + expenses Tonic is assisting our client in their search for a Northern Relief Head Chef to support their F&B operation across the northern estate. Working closely with site teams and regional leadership, you will step into kitchens across the region to cover holidays, transitions, sickness and openings keeping standards high and operations running smoothly. What's in it for the successful Relief Head Chef? • Competitive salary up to £50,000 basic, • Car allowance from day one, with a company car after six months (choose from the available list), • All expenses covered, including overnight accommodation where required, • Five days out of seven, with some weekend work, • Daytime hours no evenings, ever, • Discretional, annual company-wide bonus, • A varied, autonomous role across multiple sites

Relief Chefs Wanted Position: Relief Chefs (Various Levels) - from Cooks, Chef de Partie, Sous chefs, Head Chefs and Catering/Chef Managers Environments: Hotels, Restaurants, contract catering, golf clubs, School, Care homes, Prisons, plus many more! Location: Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire including Stafford, Congleton, Leek, Crewe, Newcastle under Lyme. Rate: £17.50-£20 per hour ????? About the Role: Are you a dab hand in the kitchen, cool under pressure, and tired of the same four walls every day? We're on the hunt for passionate, reliable Relief Chefs to jump into several kitchens across Stafford & Staffordshire. We work with buzzing hotel banqueting suites to private events, schools, care homes, contract catering and everything in between, that need reliable chefs to step in and keep things running smoothly. No two days are the same, and that's exactly how we like it. If you're someone who can walk into a kitchen, crack on with the job, and bring a good attitude with you - we'd love to hear from you. ?? What We're Looking For: • Strong culinary background - from Chef de partie to Head Chef, • Proven experience in kitchens, or large-scale catering (minimum 6 months to 1 year experience), • Ability to step into different kitchens and hit the ground running, • High standards of hygiene, presentation, and prof...

Are you an experienced chef looking for a fully flexible role or searching for a work life balance?? We are looking for experienced chefs to cover relief placements across Crewe and Stoke-on-Trent. We serve a diverse customer base operating in various environments from sporting events and gastropubs to fine dining hotels, restaurants and event catering. We have opportunities for full time placements or simply pick up extra shifts on your free days to earn extra cash! We believe that skilled chefs should have the control over their own careers and maximise their earning potential at the times that work for them. Commutable from Crewe, Sandbach, Nantwich, Audlem, Leek, Whitchurch, Congleton, Shrewsbury, Telford and Shropshire. Benefits of working with Bookachef • Set your own hourly rate, • Get paid for all the hours you work, • You dictate when youre available to work, • Work as many or as few shifts as you choose, • PAYE or Ltd Company engagements available, • Develop your experience in different venues, • You decide how far you travel, • You pay us no fees at all, • Holiday Pay entitlementWe have placements for agency chefs across Stoke-on-Trent covering head chef, senior sous chef, sous chef, chef de partie a...

Blue Arrow Derby is proud to be working in partnership with an excellent manufacturing & visitor attraction client within the Staffordshire area who are looking to recruit a Sous Chef on a full time, permanent basis to join their team. Our client is expanding their much-loved destination café into a 200-cover operation supported by a brand-new, purpose-catering facility within their bustling retail site. This is a pivotal moment in their journey -therefore are looking for a passionate and driven Sous Chef to join and play a key role in shaping this exciting new chapter. Hours: 40 hours per week - working 5 out of 7 days a week (on a 2-week rotation with every other weekend off) 8:30am - 4:30pm with a 4:00pm finish on Sundays Salary: £14.21 p/h / £29,558 per annum - with a chance to also earn extra commission The Sous Chef will be a vital member of the kitchen team, acting as the Head Chef's right hand and taking on a wide range of responsibilities. From recipe development and food preparation to team supervision and food safety, you'll play a key role in delivering an outstanding customer experience. What will you be doing in the Sous Chef role? Food Preparation: Follow recipes and prepare dishes to high standards of quality and consistency. Supervision: Train, motivate, and lead kitchen staff, ensuring an efficient and happy team. Menu Planning: Assist in designing creative, seasonal menus and daily specials. Inventory Management: Order supplies, manage stock and control kitchen costs effectively. Food Safety & Hygiene: Maintain top-tier cleanliness and safety across all kitchen operations. Operational Support: Provide hands-on support to always ensure smooth service. Administrative Tasks: Manage paperwork, stock records, and kitchen documentation. Culinary Expertise: Demonstrate strong cooking skills and accuracy in food preparation. Leadership & Teamwork: Support a positive, collaborative kitchen environment. Organisation & Time Management: Ensure efficient planning and compliance with safety regulations. Communication: Communicate clearly with both kitchen staff and front-of-house teams. What will you bring to the Sous Chef role? Previous experience as a Sous Chef is essential Previous experience working within a café/visitor attraction/restaurant environment is highly desirable Food hygiene level 2 (dated within the last three years) is essential Food Allergens (desirable) Creative and innovative approach Excellent communication skills Confident with a good sense of humour Strong organisational and time management Calm under pressure Ability to manage workload and priorities Attention to detail Positive, enthusiastic attitude Strong team-player Multi-tasking ability Willingness to undertake training Why should you apply for the Sous Chef role? This is more than just a job - it's a chance to help lead the transition into the new café/kitchen space, support the Head Chef and senior management team with menu development, team direction, and the overall kitchen organisation. You'll take your lead in the Head Chef's absence ensure our team is inspired, organised, ready to deliver exceptional food to our growing number of guests. If you are interested in the above role and feel you can meet the above requirements - we would love to hear from you as soon as possible. We please ask all applications are made via the click apply button, and we will aim to process your application as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people. TPBN1_UKCT

Deli Kitchen Head Chef - Luxury Beach Club in Greece - Summer 2026. We’re looking for a creative, organised and hands-on Head Chef to lead the Deli Kitchen this summer. Working closely with the Executive Head Chef, you’ll help shape an evolving concept that balances simplicity, consistency, effi

Proven experience as a Head Chef in a high-volume, high-standard professional kitchen. As a Head Chef at The Peligoni Club, you’ll lead one of four distinctive outlets, shape unforgettable dining experiences and work in one of the most unique coastal settings in the Mediterranean. Head Chef - Luxu

A brilliant opportunity for a strong Sous Chef ready for a first Head Chef role, or a hands-on Head Chef who enjoys leading a small team and building a food offer with real potential. Head Chef | £40,000 Independent pub.

We genuinely like the people we work with, and love coming together to reset , refresh and have fun.We empower our people through togetherness , we give them the chance to shine and unlock their potential, and they fuel our strength and growth.Are you passionate about food ,drink and service ,want t

You are probably an existing Head Chef, Kitchen Manager or Sous Chef looking for your first step into a Head Chef role. You will have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs and Sous Chefs. You will have expe

Our kitchen has a wonderful team of chefs who work very hard and are great at what they do, so its important we find the right Head Chef who is going to be supportive, friendly and hands-on, always ready to help in the different sections of the kitchen.

We are Company of Cooks, and we believe brilliant food and drink starts with brilliant people.For over 25 years, we've been part of some of the UK's most loved cultural destinations, from historic palaces and botanical gardens to buzzing galleries and performance spaces, running the cafés, restaura

Felixs Kitchen, Unit 12 & 14 Thomas Road Industrial Estate Poplar E14 7BN.Our Vision: A UK where No good food goes to waste.The Felix Project and FareShare have recently.

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Previous experience as an Events Head or Sous Chef in quality events or hotel events kitchens. Apply now to be considered for this Events Head Chef role. Were looking for an experienced Events Head Chef One to help oversee quality production, design and lead a variety of bespoke seated and standing

We are partnering with a successful restaurant group on the search for a Head Chef to join their team. Work within the group menu framework set by Group Executive Chef with some creative input – sous chefs have dishes on the menu. Head Chef – Premium Casual Restaurant – Soho / King's Cross –

All candidates applying for this Head Chef role must have been in a similar position within the last year. Are you looking to be the Head Chef of a leading B&I contract in East London?. I'm looking for a Head Chef who possesses the following:.

Head Chef - Production Kitchen. We are looking for a talented and driven Head Chef to lead a small but highly experienced brigade within a fully functional production kitchen. As Head Chef, you will play a key role in ensuring consistency, quality, and timely delivery across all areas.

This is a great opportunity for a highly experienced Sous Chef ready to step into their first Head Chef role, or for an established Head Chef with experience in a restaurant or pub environment. We are looking for a talented Head Chef to lead our kitchen team, deliver consistent quality across busy s

You're an experienced Head Chef with a background in high-end, client-facing environments. Working closely with our Executive Chef, you'll define and deliver a best-in-class hospitality offer.

Proven experience as a Head Chef, Senior Sous Chef, or Kitchen Manager in a fresh food operation. What we are looking for in Head Chef candidates:. Head Chef, £36,000 per annum, Fresh Food Catering Operation, Daytime Hours.

We are recruiting a Head Chef for a prestigious 3AA Rosette hotel set within one of Scotlands most beautiful coastal locations, offering a rare opportunity to lead a high-level kitchen within a respected and established property. This is a role for a Head Chef who can combine creativity with strong

Were on the lookout for a Head Chefto become part of our TRIBE community as we continue to make waves in London.

Take charge of our superbly-equipped kitchen, and bring your passion, flair and experience to create amazing menus which inspire our team and delight our diners! Join Signature Senior Lifestyle as the Head Chef at our luxury care and nursing home in Enfield. The Head Chef is the heart and soul of ou

We are seeking a Clubhouse Head Chef to join us on the journey at Rockliffe Hall. To help us deliver our vision, were seeking an exceptional Clubhouse Head Chef to join our Clubhouse Kitchen team.

Head Chef (New Opening, Bowness-on-Windermere) Up to. This is a standout opportunity to shape the culinary direction of a high-profile venue, working closely with the company's Executive Chef to build, develop, and inspire a brand-new team.

Proven experience as a Head Chef within a high-volume retail, café, or restaurant environment. A trend-driven chef who prides themselves on innovation and mentoring a BOH team.

Take charge of our superbly-equipped kitchen, and bring your passion, flair and experience to create amazing menus which inspire our team and delight our diners! Join Signature Senior Lifestyle as the Head Chef at our luxury care and nursing home in Enfield. The Head Chef is the heart and soul of ou

Previous experience as a Head Chef within a premium high-volume quality restaurant.

Are you a Head Chef looking to take the next step in their career? We are looking for a Head Chef who has a great range of experience working at gastro pub food level. You will be a part of the award winning Urban Pubs & Bars (Best Managed Pubs 1-67), a fast growing independent hospitality group wit

As a Head Chef, you manage the Kitchen and Kitchen Staff.

The wait is well and truly over, Cosy Club is coming to London! We're opening a stunning new site in Westfield Stratford this Summer and are on the hunt for a passionate Head Chef to make this new opening our best one yet. Our Head Chefs deliver nothing but the best when it comes to cooking, coachin

As Head Chef, you will oversee the quality and consistency of our food offering, manage your kitchen team, drive operational and commercial standards, and support menu development. We believe great chefs and leaders come through many different paths, and we are always interested in people with somet

If you are a proven Head Chef, or a strong Sous Chef ready for that next step, this could be a brilliant move. Open to a strong Sous Chef looking to step into their first Head Chef role. There are not many Head Chef roles like this on the market.

Head Chef job in Crewe (Haslington), Highlights: - Salary up to £40,000, negotiated on experien. Job Description A fantastic Head Chef job in Crewe (Haslington), paying a salary of up to £40,000 plus KPI Bonus is available for a branded restaurant which has an excellent range of Mediterranean in

Head ChefCare Home: Bellerose ManorHours per week: 40Salary: To be discussedAbout the role:We are currently recruiting for a Head Chef to join our Hospitality team. Head ChefWhen registering to t

Job Description We are now recruiting for a Head Chef at The King William IV at Sedgeford, near Hunstanton. This characterful Inn serves the local community and visiting tourists and we are looking for a Head Chef who would like to make their mark in the North Norfolk dining scene.

As the Head Chef, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of kitchen operations, ensuring the highest standards of food quality, safety, and presentation. Proven experience as a Head Chef or in a similar role within the hospitality industry. FOX & HOUNDS in Houston is looking for a HEAD C

Job Description About Us Darkhorse is an independent, ingredient-led restaurant and cocktail bar in Stratford (E20), known for bold flavours, seasonal cooking, and a modern European menu with creative freedom at its core.We operate with a small, passionate team and a strong reputation in the local d