Company Description
Title: Head Chef
Location: Skipton Building Society - The Bailey
Annual Salary: £28,500-£29,500
Monday - Friday: 6:30am-3pm
Benefits:
1. 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
2. Plus your birthday off
3. 3 volunteering days
4. 3 days grandparent leave.
5. 24 weeks' enhanced maternity leave
6. Secondary carer leave
7. Wedding/commitment day leave.
8. Free meals on shift.
9. Bespoke training and development opportunities
10. Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
11. Pension and life insurance.
12. Discounts available from HAPI app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema.
13. Wellbeing hub.
14. Access to employee assistance programme.
15. 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.
Job Description
16. Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.
17. Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships & communication methods with clients and other key stakeholders in the business.
18. Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.
19. Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation.
20. Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.
Qualifications
21. Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
22. Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
23. You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
24. Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
25. Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
26. Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
27. Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
28. Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
29. Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
30. Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
31. Works according to the BaxterStorey core values
Additional Information
For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.
We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.
Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.
Join us, and be part of the food revolution!
BaxterStorey Values:
ALWAYS VISIONARY
We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.
WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE
We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is
amplified by our people.
CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE
We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.
FOREVER CONSCIOUS
We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local
communities.
Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.
BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce.
The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each team memberto feel respected and able to give their best.
And to support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ED&I (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.