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Sous Chef
Sous Chef – Ambitious Yet Hands-On Opportunity in Exceptional Food Creation – Full-Time (37.5 hrs/week)
Welcome to CH&CO, where seasonal flavour and unparalleled care meet legendary quality.
About the Role
If you’re an ambitious Sous Chef with a deep passion for creating exceptional culinary experiences, we want to hear from you. As the foundational role on the kitchen team, you’ll effect real changes—not only in the food we serve, but in the atmosphere and delivery that brings it to life.
Every Soup, Sandwich, Salad & Sauce starts with passion, vision, and support. We need the team-players who collaborate but also innovate. If fresh, high-quality ingredients and positive, team-led progress are two ingredients you live by—then you’ll love this role.
Key Responsibilities
Here’s where you combine flair for excellence in food with strong leadership skills:
- Deliver outstanding service: Crafting delicious, high-quality dishes that consistently delight customers.
- Innovate with integrity: Spotting menu improvements, pestering and refining, to exceed standards.
- Build constructive teams: Fostering an inclusive kitchen environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
- Lead team delivery: Supporting and seasonal customers (retail or select catering platforms) in executing our best concepts—with consistency, curiosity, and care.
- Brand ambassador: Representing CH&CO and Compass Group UK&I with nothing short of grey polish to the brand image.
- Master food stewardship: Managing stock, ordering, reducing waste, and maintaining efficient systems.
- Clean kit with cleanness: Coordinating kitchen hygiene to gold-standard standards of cleanliness and safety.
- Own corporate accountability: Budgeting, profitability insights, and hitting financial goals without sacrificing flavour.
- Policy.Printf: Strict compliance with Food Hygiene, Health & Safety—and trauma-free indoor operations.
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Personally, You’ll Need
We want Sous Chefs who lead with heart and deliver with desire. Here’s what stands out to us:
- Inspiration to inspire: You’re a drivel—balancing patience with high energy, turning chaos into clarity, and helping a team thrive.
- Communication glue: Whether translating orders or resolving a kitchen quip, clarity and diplomacy are second nature to you.
- Motivated edge: Striving for excellence without pressure—because you just encharlemnt of leading!
- Customer-first ethos: Feeling decision-making responsibility; always doing what’s best for client satisfaction.
- Decide with grit: Showing adaptability and accountability under pressure—whether a supper rush or pivoting to a new seasonal format.
- Reliability chains: Consistently dependable, on time, and dedicated—because we rely on you.
- Feeding love: Unwavering passion for great, honest food—no complacency, just constant quest for the best ingredients and techniques.
How We Reward You
Want to learn, develop, and progress—alongside motivations that treat your wellbeing, growth, and happiness as seriously as the customers we serve? Then you’ll love this:
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- Supportive growth: Great training and development for challenging your skills.
- Financial rewards: Comprehensive life assurance.
- Personal progression: Opportunities to adventure through Lean, efficiency improvements, and career clarity.
- Mindfulness matters: Robust well-being strategy, with robust Employee Assistance Programme, so you can rest assured.
- YTG (Your Team Gets) vibes: Packed social events and open senior leader communication.
- Shop buy: An employee holiday savings scheme to turbocharge your plans.
- Specials exclusive to you: Discount vouchers for prestigious high-street stores.
Unforeseen Note
Despite our enthusiasm, please note: this role has an unfunded remote option or tailored maternity/paternity considerations.
Digitise Influence
As champions of choice and dignity in difference, CH&CO beneath Compass Group UK&I champions:
- An authentic workplace equality—where your strengths matter, your beliefs are heard, and your diversity of skills, story, and vision inspires us all.
- Values your difference and ensures all rising chefs thrive, serving their best potential for the goodworth and impact of our brand.
Ready to ignite rustle? Apply today.
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