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Head Chef
Head Chef – iconic senior position on rollercoaster catering adventure
£43,000 per annum – Milton Keynes (Monday to Friday)
About the Role
We’re searching for a ** Head Chef** – someone deeply passionate about food, great at leadership, and keen to own their career in one of Britain’s most exciting hospitality environments.
At BaxterStorey, we mix extraordinary food with workspaces that wow. We’ve served millions of fabulous meals across stadiums, schools, universities, offices, courthouses, and beyond. Why? Because every customer deserves a catering experience to delight and uplift them.
You’ll lead, inspire, and push for brilliance in all things food – setting new standards along the way. We value mind-set as much as experience: we’ll invest in your ambition, fuel your professional growth, and give you the frameworks and creativity to thrive.
Work Design & Responsibilities
Your Core Focus: Deliver Exceptional
- Lead, collaborate, and support your team to achieve consistently top-notch standards – in quality, hygiene, innovation, and customer experience.
- Drive client relations, ensuring ongoing trust and seamless partnerships.
- Build mentoring relationships, seize development opportunities, and foster a culture of training—nurturing a team where everyone is challenged to grow.
- Champion Business KPIs: Health & Safety, sustainability, financial health, and governance.
- Set creative boundaries, champion oxygenic innovation, and crystallise customer joy in everything you deliver.
Briefly, be the spark for excellence.
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- Proven Head Chef experience (or equivalent leadership in food service).
- An addiction to food—your obsession fuels your creativity.
- Experience managing, training, and empowering teams firmly in your return.
- Hands-on financial savvy with budgets, cost control, and driving commercial results.
- Strong coaching, delegating, and influencing abilities.
- Proven track record working under pressure—prioritising, multitasking, and thriving in a fast-paced kitchen.
- Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring every recipe, service, and presentation is flawless.
- Empathy, clarity, and eloquence in communication (verbal and written).
- Adaptability with a solution-driven frame-of-mind—challenges? They’re just fuel.
Dawnish at BaxterStorey’s core values (an employer you will want to belong to):
- Always Visionary: Consistent push for progress.
- Wholeheartedly Positive: All staff radiate the love of what they do.
- Creative Collaboration: Diverse ideas rise when differences align.
- Forever Conscious: Planet, people, and the local community are at the heart of decisions.
Work Perks – a year of indulgence
- 28 days paid holiday (including UK bank holidays) + your birthday off.
- Three days volunteering leave.
- Three days grandparent leave.
- Twenty-four weeks’ enhanced maternity leave.
- Secondary carer leave (where applicable).
- Wedding/commitment day leave.
- Free meals on shift – fuel your creativity with splendid options.
- Training and talent development tailored to you. Barker head chefs have access to tailored opportunities, including apprenticeships at all career stages.
- Pension and life insurance offered.
- Eat cinema lazy days – discounts on high-street stores, holidays, movies, and subscriptions via our Perkbox.
- Wellbeing Hub – support for long-shifts and stress management.
- Employee Assistance Programme accessible via counselling, healthcare, and personal guidance.
- Cycle-To-Work Scheme.
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Why BaxterStorey?
We’re hospitals on a food revolution—a company born out of a belief this lines the finest hospitality (not just in customers served but culture and training). Joining us isn’t another job; it’s an invitation to create against ambition.
Write the Next Chapter
We think career growth should be a rollercoaster of rewards. Join us and:
- Set the standard that others follow, owning your journey here.
- Support a legacy—not just in terms of stories told but practices and taste (and sustainability).
- Learn as much as you create—because we’ve set ED&I at the heart of our ambition for workplace culture.
- Thrive in inclusion—because diversity sparks better.
- Grow together, in parking lots and boardrooms, on apples and stapling lines.
What We Ask?
While you don’t have to tick every box:
- If you’re personably hungry to decode food standards, earn trust, build people, and lead in a fast-paced environment, we have plenty of calories to offer.
- This role welcomes all faces. No single background or make-up of applicants should exclude a great chef vision.
Let’s build—Together.
At BaxterStorey food isn’t just made; it’s honoured – so your culinary career can be too.
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