Overview


Location: Regents Park Road, Southampton, SO15
Salary: Up to £37,000

HEAD CHEF OPPORTUNITY!!

Up to 37K 

Performance Bonus

Monday to Friday 

  • 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
  • Plus your birthday off
  • 3 volunteering days
  • 3 days grandparent leave.
  • 24 week’s enhanced maternity leave.
  • Secondary career leave.
  • Wedding/commitment day leave.
  • Free meals on shift.
  • Bespoke training and development opportunities
  • Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
  • Pension and life insurance.
  • Discounts available from HAPI app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema.
  • Wellbeing hub.
  • Access to employee assistance programme.
  • Cycle to work scheme.

Calling all culinary connoisseurs that are OBSESSED about food, we need you! If you have an insatiable appetite for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create food that delights customers and clients, then look no further. At BaxterStorey we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish, your talents can shine and we wholeheartedly believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft and create a development partnership together to ensure professional growth opportunities.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Head Chef to make a name for themselves within the food service industry and be a part of setting the new standard for workplace hospitality.

 

 

WHAT WILL KEEP YOU BUSY:

Job Description

  • Plan, prepare, cook and present food to the standards required
  • Manage a team to include all sections of retail, deli, main kitchen and pastry section.
  • Create and develop the menu offer with exciting innovation 
  • Ensure that the company’s reputation for excellent food and service is enhanced with the client and customers.
  • Control portion size and monitor waste
  • Ensure supplies are correctly issued, used and accounted for to carry out stock takes and food rotation procedures
  • Maintain records relating to food production activities and supplier information
  • Ensure Health and Safety and Food Safety Standards are maintained in line with company policy
  • Set objectives and be responsible for the day to day running of the kitchen
  • Assess employee performance and recognise training needs and potential as appropriate.
  • Hold team meetings on a regular basis to communicate targets, standards required and company and client information
  • Hands on role managing a section and overseeing team operations 
  • be able to deal with demands in a calm and professional way

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

  • Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
  • Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
  • You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
  • Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
  • Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
  • Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
  • Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
  • Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
  • Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
  • Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
  • Works according to the BaxterStorey core values
  • Hands on approach

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