Sous Chef

Company Description

The Brownsword Group has created arguably the most iconic collection of historic countryside and city centre hotels, all wonderful properties set within beautiful grounds and cities, all with their own stories to share. Generosity, quality, and welcoming hospitality is what they do very well. Being exceptional hoteliers has been the core of the operation, creating a successful hospitality business.

Job Description

Come and join our team as a Sous Chef and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Sous Chef, you will be working alongside the Head Chef to run a busy kitchen. You will be creating exciting and delicious dishes to be served to guests.

This role would suit someone who has worked in a similar environment previously.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• As a skilled chef, you’ll get to really put those knife skills to the test, cooking with the finest of ingredients.
• We want to keep everyone safe, so you’ll need to keep up to date with the latest allergen training.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen is responsible for keeping it clean.
• Nobody wants out of date food, so labelling your food is important.
• As an experienced chef, we encourage you to share your knowledge with new, budding Junior Sous, CDP’s, KP’s and Commis coming into the industry.
• You’ll be responsible for managing the kitchen in the absence of the Head Chef.
• Along with the Head Chef, you’ll write the allergen matrix, to ensure that all our guests are kept safe.
• We can’t run out of food, so it’s important to keep on top of ordering, via Procure Wizard.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas.  We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

Additional Information

To say thank you, we have many perks:

• Great salary package and benefits.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.