Junior Sous Chef

Be Yourself - Be Leonardo

At Leonardo Hotels, we are recruiting for a Junior Sous Chef to join our great team in the Kitchen. We are looking for an enthusiastic, genuine and friendly person who really enjoys working in hotels and wants to provide great hospitality to our guests, contributing to them having a memorable stay with us.

As Junior Sous Chef

We want you to be part of a great and diverse team working together to provide great products to our guests in the restaurant, bar or conference departments. We set high standards for ourselves so that we can surprise and delight our customers and deliver a great experience.

Some of the perks you could enjoy include: 

• Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK & Europe: get planning that city break you’ve been dreaming of! 
• Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops 
• Meals on duty
• Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us
• We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration 
• The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support
• Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression

Experience we expect -
• Exceptional Chef de Partie looking for their first Junior Sous Chef position
• Background in branded hotels or restaurants is preferred – so you will understand how we work
• Flexiblility – to enjoy working different shift patterns and seeing the operation on different days of the week including the weekends as well as mornings, or evenings (no split-shifts here)
• Be comfortable following a standardised menu
• To be standards driven and have good organisational skills.
• To be able to work well under pressure at times and multi task in a fast paced environment and to enjoy it
• Too be able to communicate and motivate your team providing day to day leadership and direction
• Good people skills – to work well in a team - we want work to be fun for all of our employees
• Know the EHO requirements and be able to ensure the team do to

Your responsibilities will be:
• Manage, supervise and participate in the preparation of food for all the Food and Beverage outlets.
• Ensure food is produced in a timely and efficient manner and meets the highest standards of taste, quality and presentation.
• Ensure the control of costs and productivity.
• Keeping the team up to date about departmental, hotel and company activities through daily communications
• To ensure the kitchen is clean and that the team all know the correct hygiene standards expected.
• To ensure the kitchen team follow HACCP and food safety standards. Using the tools and equipment provided.
• To train and develop the team within the kitchen so that a talent pipeline exists for future progression, the company host chef development courses such as The Chef Development Programme and we host internal competitions.

Why come and work for us – to receive practical training, development and progression within a dynamic and rapidly expanding company. If you want a career in Hospitality then look no further, we have great programs to support your development towards a long and successful career.