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Candidates should possess a strong background in food safety, kitchen management, and creative menu development to succeed as our Head Chef. We are seeking an experienced and passionate Head Chef to lead our culinary team. You will also be taught the skills of operating this from our pit Master Sean

Candidates should possess a strong background in food safety, kitchen management, and creative menu development to succeed as our Head Chef. We are seeking an experienced and passionate Head Chef to lead our culinary team. You will also be taught the skills of operating this from our pit Master Sean

Liverpool Experience Campus operates the city's waterfront event campus – the interconnected M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool Experience Campus and Exhibition Centre Liverpool as well as ticketing agency Ticket Quarter and the Pullman Liverpool Hotel. Playing a leading role in shining a spotlight on Liverpool, we have successfully staged a wide array of national and international events, from shows and conventions, business gatherings to exhibitions, developing our offer over the last decade to that of a world-class provider of venue and event services. We are currently seeking a passionate and innovative Head Chef to take the lead in a dynamic and fast-paced kitchen, leading the culinary strategy and execution across Liverpool Experience Campus' Sports and Entertainment Culinary operations. Company Benefits We are an award-winning, world-class venue where our people are at the heart of everything that we do. Recognition and reward are of huge importance to us at Liverpool Experience Campus, and just some of the benefits staff can enjoy include: • An enhanced holiday scheme which increases with length of service., • An excellent pension scheme is available., • Access to a premium health care policy, which includes an employee assistant line, contributions towards a wide range of medical costs, such as dental and optical and staff discounts., • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes., • An excellent occupational sick pay scheme., • Free onsite parking right in the heart of the city centre., • Employee Reward Platform., • A dedicated wellbeing strategy to support staff when at work., • 25 Qualified Mental Health First Aiders on site. Liverpool Experience Campus is a place where you can truly make a difference. Some of the wonderful things Liverpool Experience Campus have achieved / continue to work towards: • Disability Confident Employer, • Sunflower Friendly Business, • Member of the Fair Employment Charter, • Real Living Wage employer, • Social value impact plan – last year we contributed over £6.4m, • Green Meeting’s Gold Standard, • Sustainability Strategy, • Positively influencing biodiversity – in the grounds of our campus, we have 3 beehives, • Carbon Neutral Campus, • Accessibility Strategy, • AccessAble Guide Main duties include: • Lead menu development and culinary innovation across retail and hospitality services., • Ensure food quality, presentation, and consistency meet Liverpool Experience Campus brand standards., • Manage and mentor Sous Chefs and wider kitchen teams, fostering a high-performance culture., • Oversee stock control, menu costing, portion control, and wastage reduction., • Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation including Health and Safety, Food Safety, Allergen management, COSHH, Environmental Health, and Fire Precautions., • Collaborate with F&B leadership and support services to align culinary delivery with operational and commercial goals., • Drive efficiency in kitchen operations, ensuring labour and food cost targets are achieved., • Act on guest and client feedback to continuously improve culinary standards., • Maintain strong supplier relationships and oversee procurement of food products., • Support event planning and execution, ensuring seamless integration of culinary services. The successful candidate will lead the culinary strategy and execution across LEX' s Sports and Entertainment Culinary operations, ensuring innovation, consistency, and compliance while delivering exceptional guest experience. As a ‘hands-on’ Chef, you will provide leadership, vision, and operational excellence across all your kitchen teams, embedding the “One Team” culture and aligning culinary delivery with commercial objectives. The ideal candidate will have experience of: • Opening new hospitality operations in Arenas, Stadiums, or large venues., • Understanding how to build systems, teams, menus, and workflows from the ground up while embedding them successfully within an established organisation., • Transitioning from outsourced to in house catering models., • Designing and implementing operational frameworks., • Developing cost efficient procurement and supplier relationships., • Specifying and commissioning equipment, planning kitchen layouts and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. If you are a hardworking and committed professional ready to contribute to our continued success, we’d love to hear from you! Join us at Liverpool Experience Campus and be part of something extraordinary! Please note, we may close this vacancy before the stated closing date if we receive sufficient applications for the position. Therefore, if you are interested in this position, please submit your application form as soon as possible. Closing Date : 29 May 2026 Interview Date : 1 and 2 June 2026 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Liverpool Experience Campus know the value of having a diverse and representative team across our organisation. We promote equal opportunities and are committed to having an inclusive work force where everybody feels respected, are treated fairly and diversity is celebrated. As such we strongly encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from all members of the community regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion, belief or sexual orientation.

Job Overview If you are considering sending an application, make sure to hit the apply button below after reading through the entire description. We are seeking an experienced and passionate Head Chef to lead our culinary team. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of food preparation, ensuring high standards of quality, safety, and presentation. This role offers an exciting opportunity to showcase your culinary expertise in a dynamic hospitality environment, managing kitchen operations and inspiring your team to deliver exceptional dining experiences. The Fox Inn prides itself on its huge smoker where we cook all types of meat from Brisket, ribs, chicken, pulled pork. You will also be taught the skills of operating this from our pit Master Sean (Pub Manager) Responsibilities Lead and supervise the kitchen team, including chefs and kitchen staff, ensuring efficient workflow and high standards of food quality. Oversee food production, from preparation to presentation, maintaining consistency and excellence in every dish served. Develop innovative menus in collaboration with management, incorporating seasonal ingredients and current culinary trends. Ensure compliance with food safety regulations and maintain cleanliness and organisation within the kitchen area. Manage stock levels, order supplies, and control costs to optimise operational efficiency. Train and mentor junior staff, fostering a positive team environment focused on continuous improvement. Coordinate with front-of-house staff to ensure seamless service delivery and customer satisfaction. Monitor food service operations during busy periods, ensuring timely delivery of orders while maintaining quality standards. Skills Proven supervising experience within a professional kitchen environment. Extensive food production and culinary experience, demonstrating versatility across various cuisines. Strong team management skills with the ability to motivate and lead a diverse group of staff. Excellent food preparation and cooking skills, with a keen eye for detail in presentation. Solid knowledge of kitchen safety protocols and food hygiene regulations. Previous restaurant experience is highly desirable, along with hospitality industry knowledge. Leadership qualities that inspire confidence and foster collaboration among team members. Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently under pressure while maintaining high standards of service. This role is ideal for a dedicated culinary professional eager to take on a leadership position within a vibrant hospitality setting. xrnqpay Candidates should possess a strong background in food safety, kitchen management, and creative menu development to succeed as our Head Chef. Pay: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year Work Location: In person

55,000 - 65,000 per annum dependent on experience Risk Manager (Travel) Salary 55,000 to 65,000 per annum, dependent on experience Folkestone Hybrid Sagas Group Risk function exists to support the business in safeguarding our customers, our people, the company and its trusted reputation. We play a critical role in enabling sustainable growth by ensuring risks are well understood, appropriately managed, and aligned to our strategic ambitions. Our Travel Business spans Ocean and River Cruise, as well as Holidays including stays and touring, and as we continue to evolve and grow, we need to expand our second line Risk team. Reporting into the Head of Risk, youll partner closely with this dynamic and customer-focused part of the business. This is a highly visible and impactful role, offering the opportunity to influence decision-making at a senior level, shape risk practices within a complex and regulated environment, and contribute to delivering exceptional experiences for our customers. You will act as a key member of the Group Risk function, embedding a strong risk culture, providing independent challenge, and supporting the Travel business in taking informed, responsible risks in line with its appetite. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who combines strong technical risk expertise with a commercial mindset and a passion for the travel sector. This role requires you to be working from our Folkestone office a minimum of 3 times a week. We have designated office space for colleagues in our Travel business, allowing us to collaborate and share success as a function. There will also be ad hoc travel to our other sites in London, Crawley & Southampton. Role Responsibility As our Risk Manager you will act as a trusted risk business partner and advisor to the Travel business to support them in taking and managing risks responsibly to achieve their strategic objectives in line with their agreed risk appetite. Other accountabilities will include: Working with our Travel Business to ensure that colleagues across all leadership levels understand how we manage risks at Saga, and what is expected of them in respect of risk management. Supporting the annual refresh of the Risk Strategy and plan, and delivery of this for Saga Travel. Using your knowledge of the travel industry to support the business to regularly review their Risk and Control Self Assessments (RCSAs) and ensure internal control testing is undertaken effectively by the business. Oversee the quality of control testing, providing challenge and guidance where appropriate. Supporting the Travel Executive team to oversee and report on the effectiveness of their material controls under the requirements of Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code. Facilitating the cascade of Group risk appetite statements within Travel, ensuring they are tailored appropriately to enable the achievement of Travels strategic objectives. Monitor the management of risk within the appetites through reporting. Oversight of Travel incidents, providing an independent check and challenge to ensure the root cause is understood and appropriate actions are in place to prevent recurrence. Supporting development and maintenance of risk management policies, procedures, and guidelines to our expectations are clear for Travel, and consistent with the Group. Supporting managements understanding of the risk management system through facilitating training, informal discussion, online tools, policies and guidance documents. Preparing and presenting clear, concise risk reports and opinions to senior management and relevant stakeholders, highlighting key risk exposures, trends and mitigation activities. Ensuring risk reports ultimately provide value to management. Attending and participation in Exec risk committees and other governance fora where risk engagement is required. Providing robust challenge and insights on key projects, key risk exposures, emerging risk, trends, control effectiveness, lessons learnt on material incidents. Supporting the development and delivery of the 2nd Line assurance plan, completing your own risk-based assurance over Travels control environment. Providing appropriately pragmatic and commercial recommendations to manage and mitigate risk. The Ideal Candidate As our Risk Manager for the Travel business, you will bring a strong understanding of both the travel industry and risk management frameworks. Youll be confident in identifying, assessing and documenting risks and controls, undertaking control testing, and delivering clear, insightful risk reporting that supports effective decision-making. Whilst direct experience of risk management is desired, we welcome candidates with significant travel sector experience who can demonstrate strong stakeholder management and business partnering capability, building trusted relationships at all levels. If you have strong influencing, interpersonal and communication skills, and are less experienced in risk we have the capacity to upskill your risk management expertise. Other experience required: Lead International Safety Management (ISM) auditor qualification, or experience working towards this, is desirable, or Strong understanding of maritime regulation and knowledge of Package Travel Regulations (PTRs) is desirable. Qualified risk professional, or equivalent practical experience in a risk management role. Experience of third-party risk management and oversight. Knowledge of risk, compliance and quality assurance within travel or similarly regulated industries. Proven track record of working effectively with senior stakeholders on risk and control frameworks. Ability to operate successfully in a complex, matrixed organisation, balancing multiple priorities. Strong influencing skills, with the confidence to provide independent challenge where required. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to translate risk into meaningful business insight. Sound judgement, with the ability to exercise discretion and make decisions on matters of significance. Saga Values: Make it Happen, Do the Right Thing, Customer First, Excellence Every Day, Our People Make Us Special Package Description At Saga we recognise that our people make us special. We believe our colleagues deserve rewards for the excellence they demonstrate every single day, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues. BENEFITS AVAILABLE FOR THIS ROLE: • 25 days holiday + bank holidays, • Option to purchase additional leave - 5 extra days, • Pension scheme matched up to 10%, • Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5%, • Life assurance policy on joining us, 4 x salary, • Wellbeing programme, • Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises, holidays and insurance, • Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies, • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, • Grandparents leave, • Income protection, • Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform About the Company Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.Job Reference: saga/TP/56250/3461

About Regency Park Hotel The hotel offers a peaceful and tranquil setting in the Royal County of Berkshire between the towns of Newbury and Thatcham. Whether you are a business traveler, here to relax or wish to visit and explore the area for its local attractions, the Regency Park Hotel has something for everyone. The hotel boasts 108 bedrooms all comfortable and contemporary styled, an inviting open plan bar and lounge area, and the Watermark restaurant, proving a first class dining experience. Our Health Club is currently a members only club, where you can be assured of a stress free visit in tranquil surroundings. The superb and extensive on site facilities include a 17 metre indoor swimming pool, state of the art air conditioned PRECOR gym, spa pool, steam room and sauna. There is complimentary onsite parking available. Job Duties for Chef De Partie Manage and run your designated section during prep and service Prepare, cook, and present dishes to the highest standard Maintain excellent food hygiene and safety practices Support menu development and contribute creative ideas Train and mentor Commis Chefs and junior team members Ensure stock levels are maintained and assist with ordering Work closely with the Head Chef and Sous Chef to ensure smooth service Uphold kitchen cleanliness, organisation, and equipment care Requirements Proven experience in a similar role within a restaurant environment. Strong knowledge of food preparation techniques, culinary arts, and kitchen management. Familiarity with food safety regulations and best practices. Able to perform consistently in a fast-paced kitchen environment Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. A passion for hospitality and delivering exceptional dining experiences. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply. TPBN1_UKCT

At Donnington & Co, we believe in doing things properly. Set within the Berkshire countryside, our estate is home to a 111-bedroom hotel and spa, an 18-hole golf course, and our signature restaurant, PRESS. Just across the greens sits The Post Barn, our dedicated venue for events and celebrations. For us, hospitality isn't a script; its remembering a name, knowing how a guest takes their coffee, and making sure every conversation feels natural. We dont go in for empty gestures; we go in for care, purpose, and doing the job right. Were looking for people who take that same pride in their work. In return, we provide the kind of environment where you can actually master your craft. From structured training to genuine career development, we ensure your growth is as well-thought-out as our service. If you believe that hospitality is about the "small things done well," youll fit right in. The Role: Junior Sous Chef We are looking for a Junior Sous Chef to join our team on a permanent basis. You dont need a long CV in hospitality to join us, well provide the training you need to master your craft. We simply ask for people who are reliable, observant, and genuinely enjoy looking after others. Why join Donnington & Co as a Junior Sous Chef? We provide an environment where you can actually grow. Beyond the shift, we offer a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing and your career: Fair Pay & Rewards: Competitive hourly rates plus a significant service charge Flexibility: Early Pay (on-demand wage access) when you need it Perks: High street discounts via Benefit Hub and generous stays at our two hotels, as well as membership discounts, Spa and Golf Wellbeing: Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and Cycle to Work scheme. Long Service Awards We also know how to host our own, from summer BBQs to department social events, we make sure our working experience is as rewarding as our guest experience. Your day as a Junior Sous Chef will involve: Assist the Head Chef and Sous Chef in daily kitchen operations Supervise and support kitchen staff during food preparation and service Ensure high standards of food quality, presentation, and consistency Help manage stock levels, ordering, and inventory control Maintain food hygiene, health, and safety standards at all times Train and mentor junior kitchen team members Step in to lead the kitchen in the absence of senior chefs Assist in menu planning, development, and seasonal updates Monitor portion control and minimise food waste Ensure all dishes are prepared and served on time during service Support cost control by managing ingredients and kitchen resources efficiently Maintain a clean, organised, and efficient kitchen environment Successful candidates should have previous experience ideally gained in a similar environment. If you believe in care, purpose, and doing the job right and you think our Junior Sous Chef role is for you, wed love to hear from you. TPBN1_UKCT