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Sous Chef - Buxton Crescent (Full Time, £38,000 plus gratuities)
The Michaelušüz Kitchen
As one of the luxury House Hotels Group’s carefully selected partners, Champneys echoes its commitment to wellness and wellbeing, with our iconic food offering grounded in wholesome, nourishing innovation. Our team of culinary colleagues—creative, passionate, and dedicated—distills our famous healthy eating philosophy into magnificent dishes that our guests can feel good about enjoying.
With the Head Chef’s confidence and oversight, this key management role ensures smooth kitchen operations. You will assist in driving our menu development, refining workflows, and maintaining extraordinary standards across every dish we serve—while championing Champneys’ healthy eating guiding principles.
Key Responsibilities
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Kitchen Team Leadership:
- Support the Head Chef in managing, training, and mentoring the entire kitchen team, ensuring consistency in service and quality.
- Operate as acting kitchen manager when the Head Chef is unavailable, including staff supervision, scheduling, and medical leave administration via the People System.
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Service & Guest Experience:
- Execute flawless buffet presentation and menu excellence, aligning with Champneys’ clean-caught, seasonal ingredients and wellness direction.
- Uphold peak cleanliness standards and regulatory compliance, prioritizing hygiene as signature of service excellence.
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Operational Maturity:
- Cost control with integrity—monitoring food waste, nutritional cost analysis, and vendor evaluations to secure best quality at minimal expenditure.
- Supplier relationship management: maintain accounts payable, assessing suppliers for price, quality, quantity, and inventory compliance.
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About the Role
This is a fulfilling position for those who thrive in a happy collaborative kitchen led by Chef Michaeluş. Mastery of Champneys cuisine—rooted as it is in wholefood philosophy, seasonal flexibility, and contemporary techniques—will be expected, alongside an enquiring mind to help champion forward-thinking adaptations to our shulterior.
Exceptional culinary background preferred, with voracious passion for healthy eating and client gratification in context. A pioneer at heart: ready to inspire activity, build a team, and help craft memorable dining journeys.
**Life beyond the Kitchen – Champneys Wellbeing Benefits ***
As our belovedoncerned for your total wellness, we’ve curated a curated range of privileges designed to make you feel like your truest, happiest self—inside and out.
Wellness-First Workplace
✔ Fully-integrated Health, Wellness and Wellbeing incentives—because personal fulfilment fuels great work.
✔ Digital fitness programmes & guided sessions—prioritising a body-in-motion lifestyle.
✔ Nutrition guides & healthy recipes direct from champneys.com’s own team.
✔ Self-Guided meditation & Champneys’ dynamic wellbeing podcasts, complementing the Holistic Spa Therapy ethos.
🌿 Free Champneys Experience on completion of your probationary period (e.g. overnight stay or ultimate Spa Treatment Day).
Practical Perks
📱 MyChampneys App—UTC-synchronised scheduling, timesheets, annual leave, surveys, and direct learning at your fingertips.
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💃 Firstlook access to Champneys Family social media, fostering belonging on-site and beyond.
⚡ Employee Assistance Programme—including free legal/HR advice, counselling, shopping discounts, and financial clarity.
📝 Motivational rewards, from celebratory anniversaries to discount offers—bravery in action deserves recognition.
Collaborative Perks
👨👩👧👦 Discounted stays for the colleagues who stay (and the extraordinary friends/family who visit—or love). Earmarked stays matching Merlin Living rates.
🎒 50% discount on all innovative Champneys’ products, from highly nutritional meal kits to cooking tools and supplements.
✨ Sustained health clubs and eancer-cooking membership discounts—continuing the partnership with body wellness.
� ಎಲ್ಲ ഗersonalized Elemis & Claríns discounts, sipping the champeny’s glow atm-accessible skin-care treats.
🎲 Merlin Attraction visitors—enabling window stays and good reason redeemed on every Champneys vacation.
📞 Introduce a friend rewards—with no kicks against unfunded team-bonding experiences.
📍 Services & Events for longer employee legacy—honouring milestone anniversaries with delightful recognition.
✅ Professional uniform provided—ensuring fashion and well-being consistency.
Perks are the difference-maker’s, but the happiness is reciprocated daily with colleagues who love what they do. Apply if your soul resonates with our purpose. Wellness is for all.
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