Junior Sous Chef - 4 day week - 44 hours/pw

The role:

Global Talent 2020 are proudly working with our exciting Scottish based Restaurant and Bars client for their well-established venue in Edinburgh City Centre on the Royal Mile seeking a talented Junior Sous Chef to help drive their operation and lead their upmarket and multi-faceted venue. This venue’s is a well-established and award-winning restaurant with a stunning view of Edinburgh Castle.

The team are looking for an individual who can help develop menus and continue rosettes and other accolades. With a long-standing head chef and a small team of 5+, this is a fantastic opportunity for someone to make their mark in the city and with the group who have multiple venues in Edinburgh.

Dishes change throughout the month to reflect the seasonality of local Scottish produce. They buy direct from many small artisan suppliers throughout Scotland.

Benefits:

• Good base salary.
• Generous TRONC scheme (£8,000 - £10,000 annualy).
• Flexible 4 day week where possible.
• Fresh produce bought from local suppliers.
• Brand new kitchen fitted in October 2022.
• Discount in the other venues in the group.

The person:

Our reputable client at Global Talent 2020, is looking for a solid and passionate leader in the kitchen to help with menu development, lead the team and deliver a high-quality standard of food across all restaurants that this kitchen caters to, serving 200-300 covers daily. The ideal candidate will need to be confident and good at building and sustaining relationships in an already established team. Their responsibilities include maintaining the high standard of food quality, menu development, adhering to the company brand standards, H&S standards and continuing the high reputation of the venue.

The ideal Junior Sous Chef candidate must have had prior experience of producing fresh quality food and had experience of volume restaurants in the high street space. You will need to be highly approachable with your personality, as you will be interacting with other senior department heads, regional management, and with all levels of the site diverse teams.

Our client requires an ideal Junior Sous Chef, that is keen to train, coach and mentor their teams, evolve food services, deliver consistent menus and food concepts, and further the reputation of the business as an Employer of choice. Due to the reputation and expectations of the guests, the individual must posses a good attention to detail and be passionate about their food.

As the Junior Sous Chef, you must be proven to be flexible, and highly adaptive in all your approaches to your team, and with delivery of concepts developed with the Head Chef and company Executive Chef.

As Junior Sous Chef, you must also be someone that not only has strong all-round culinary abilities, great presentation skills, possess food innovation skills, but someone that also is an effective manager of the kitchen environment, health, and safety, COSHH, RIDDOR, recruitment, training, and mentoring of others, and possess strong cost & budgetary control skill sets of their area.

The benefit:

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