Senior Sous Chef

A great opportunity to join a fabulous brigade with opportunities to really develop your skills in kitchen and leadership! You know there’ll be pressure, but our menus aren't simple branded corporate ones, we allow our chefs to add their own flavour and flair to our menus and delight our customers. You’ll consistently produce quality food whether its for our AA Rosette restaurant, room service, functions or Courtyard Bar - there's great variety in the role and you'll be capable to developing the skills of the brigade as well as maintaining the stock control and keeping a safey and hygienic kitchen at all times

More about the role

• To be totally customer focused by consistently delivering excellent customer service with an informed, friendly and effective approach
• Ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of food preparations
• To deputise in the Head Chefs absence
• Assisting with the control and ownership for the management of the kitchen department 
• Ensuring that the brand values and standards are delivered and budgeted profitability achieved
• Takes care of the working practicalities, ensuring food is served to the highest standards
• Responsible for training staff, introducing new techniques and working methods
• Implementing an exceptional standard of quality control ensuring each dish that goes out does so under scrutiny
• NVQ Level 2 in Food Preparation or equivalent required and Food Hygiene certificate
• Daily stock ordering
• To ensure at all times a high standard of cleanliness and practices is maintained, thereby ensuring all statutory legislation is met

What we are looking for in you:

To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude, behaviours, skills, & values that follow:

• Good communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• The ability to work well as part of a team
• The ability to remain calm under pressure
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Tact and diplomacy
• Patience
• Self-motivation
• A warm and open personality
• Problem-solving skills
• Good organisational skills

Salary and benefits:

Benefits are none contractual and may vary according to status and length of service

• £28,000 per annum (negotiable for the right candidate)
• 28 days holidays including Bank Holiday allowance
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Substantially discounted stays including friends and family
• Free Leisure Club membership
• Discounted food and beverage within the hotel
• High Street Discount incentive scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Free parking
• On Duty Meals provided

If this sounds like you, then please press apply and include your CV and covering letter, detailing you current/most recent remuneration as part of our online application process.

About Us

The Hotel Collection has unique properties and gives us the opportunity to break free from the big corporate chains’ approach to hospitality in the UK, so our teams have more freedom to achieve our financial, service and people objectives. Our aim is to provide ‘Positive impressions. Lasting memories’.

Senior Sous Chef – 4* Hotel Group Shrigley Hall Hotel Golf & Country Club

Housed in an extravagant historic mansion, The Shrigley Hall Hotel, Golf & Country Club enjoys a quiet location with breath-taking views across the Peak District National Park and the Shrigley golf course. The accommodation offers 148 elegant bedrooms with a selection of premium and deluxe standards. The Shrigley Hall Hotel is situated in the quaint village of Shrigley, near Macclesfield in Cheshire (within easy reach of the M6 and M56; just 15 minutes from Manchester Airport).