As a Sous Chef, you'll be working as part of our friendly kitchen brigade to ensure the efficient day-to-day running of our kitchens and assist in providing a consistently high quality dining experience.
You'll lead and inspire the kitchen team to create exceptional culinary experiences that leave a lasting impression, using your creativity and flair to develop and execute a food offer while also ensuring that it meets the highest standards of quality, innovation, cost control, health and safety.
Working in a kitchen environment is fast-paced and can feel pressured during busy times. Using your knowledge and expertise to train and develop others in the kitchen team in all aspects of food preparation.
- Leading the team to deliver food safety compliance at all times.
- Assisting the Head Chef to plan, produce and deliver great food offerings and agreed food presentation standards.
- Meeting all legislative requirements for the catering environment, including allergens.
- Achieving sales targets by managing food offer availability and ensuring the front of house team is fully equipped to upsell.
- Taking great care in controlling food and pay costs and minimising food wastage.
- Conducting daily compliance checks - checking all the records are up to date, temp of fridges, cleaning schedules, correct use of chemicals, PPE, H & S & business dress and customer service standards food safety policies.
Food Safety Level 3, Relevant professional chef qualifications: Proven experience leading a team in a commercial kitchen environment.
Contract Type:
Permanent
Full time work (37.5 hours per week) working Monday to Friday 11:00-19:00
We're the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We're ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
It's important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.