Catering jobs in Lochgelly

We are recruiting a confident, passionate and skilled Sous Chef to join our current team at The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant. This will be for 44 hours over 5 days a week. The package on offer is up to £40,000 and this includes TRONC tips. We will also pay up to £1500 as a signing bonus for candidates who join for a minimum of 3 months.

We are looking for someone with creativity and passion and a desire to work with fresh, simple, sustainable and local ingredients. We are also looking for someone who is flexible working evening and weekends and who has experience in catering/events. All our Sous Chefs work closely with our Head Chefs and the wider kitchen team to produce consistently beautiful food, made from scratch, that is tasty and satisfying.

All our kitchens buy directly from over 70 artisan suppliers and receive daily deliveries in the growing season from our very own kitchen garden. We have 3 Bee Hives with over 50,000 bees and when nature has been generous we are able to share the honey and the honeycomb with the kitchens

To join our team you must be familiar with all of the daily operations of a fast paced efficient kitchen and have strong leadership and communication skills. You will be assisting in planning and directing food preparation, developing new menu items within our vision and managing, training and supporting the kitchen team ensuring a happy, efficient and knowledgeable working team and environment

We are a family-run business with three award-winning restaurants in Edinburgh City Centre: Contini on George Street; The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant at the Scottish National Gallery on The Mound; and Cannonball Restaurant & Bar. All our venues offer something different, this allows us to offer working flexibility, our contracts can offer flexible hours, days and shift patterns to meet the needs of a healthy work life balance.

When you join us you'll get:

• Free meals before and during shifts
• Generous tips paid via TRONC (£2-5 extra per hour)
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme with Hospitality Action and a Health and Wellbeing Coach and a Mental Health First Aider
• A wide range of team benefits, including free food and tea/coffee, discounted meals for family and friends and cake/dinner on your birthday/work anniversary.
• Internal and external training and development opportunities, including Contini Academy apprenticeships, scholarships, visits to suppliers and paid training opportunities
• Length of service benefits including an interest free loan towards purchasing your first home, extra days holiday and additional employers pension contribution
• Referral bonuses and Employee of the Month payments
• Contributory pension scheme
• 28 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Company funded Social Club events
• Access to our Employee Forum - a collective voice for employees by employees

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £40,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Signing bonus
• Tips

Benefits:

• Company events
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Edinburgh EH2 2EL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• sous chef: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person