About This Role
This Head Chef role involves leading a kitchen team, creating innovative menus, and managing all aspects of kitchen operations. It suits an experienced chef with a passion for fresh, seasonal produce and the ability to inspire and develop a team.
Responsibilities
- Write your own menus and create your own dishes using seasonal produce
- Constantly evolve the menu to showcase fantastic seasonal ingredients
- Inspire a team, bring out their potential, and lead by example
- Develop, cost, and produce fresh seasonal menus for various revenue streams
- Champion excellent service through quality food
- Lead and develop a team
- Be an active hands-on team player
- Manage the kitchen staff rota, training, and all health and safety effectively
- Design and deliver new dishes for menus and daily specials
- Maintain effective controls with regard to both GP and labor
- Pro-actively drive sales and deliver growth through engagement with kitchen and front of house teams
Requirements
- Experience championing excellent service through quality food either as a Head Chef or in the position of Sous Chef
- Demonstrate a passion for leading and developing a team
- Excellent communication skills
- Responsible and able to manage the kitchen staff rota, training, and all health and safety effectively at all times
- Able to demonstrate creativity and ability to design and deliver new dishes for menus and daily specials
- Great planning and organizational skills, necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP and labor
- Pro-active approach to driving sales and delivering growth, through engagement with both kitchen and front of house teams
Benefits
- Full autonomy to create your own menus and specials
- Access to our Apprenticeship Scheme and Development Programmes
- Access to regular culinary masterclasses covering topics such as Game, Butchery, and Shellfish
- Access to inspirational food trips with our top quality suppliers
- Regular Chef Forums with other Head Chefs to inspire and develop
- Free meals
- 20% discount in all Young's Pubs
- 30% discount on overnight stays in our Pubs with Rooms
- Share save Scheme
- Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
- 28 Days Holiday per year
About the Company
Young's is always looking for talented Head Chefs for its businesses, which include a number of sites across North London and beyond. They believe every pub should be different, allowing Head Chefs to put their own creative stamp on the food vision, working with fresh, seasonal produce to create premium fresh food crafted by skilled chefs in premium pubs.
