Head Chef/Kitchen Manager

Hot Numbers Coffee Ltd is a vibrant and independent coffee roasting business serving fresh and exciting food at our three busy cafés in Cambridgeshire. Our Roastery, in Shepreth, is also the base for our commercial bakery and pizzeria.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has opened for a Head Chef to join our team in Cambridge. For this role you will be covering both our Trumpington and Gwydir Street Cafe. We are looking for someone who is dedicated and has a passion for food and a good understanding of modern brunch trends.

This role will require you to run a small team of chefs, delegating tasks in order to run an effective, clean & safe kitchen whilst producing the best food possible. You will be working closely with our Executive Chef in managing the daily running of the kitchen as well as having an opportunity to have input on the seasonal menu changes as well as specials.

Applicants must be able to cope well under pressure whilst maintaining both excellent food presentation and solid kitchen management. All our dishes are made on-site using the fresh produce delivered daily and your experience must reflect this.

We expect a professional and flexible approach to the job with excellent timekeeping standards being critical.

Head Chef - Job Outline

• Oversee the preparation and service of our brunch menu, ensuring all of the preparation and dishes made by other chef's are up to the company standard.
• Confidently lead your team of chefs and kitchen staff, ensuring good communication and supporting their development at work.
• Ensuring consistency between your team of chef's. This includes preparation, service, and portion control.
• Supervision of new kitchen staff including trialing of potential new staff, training of successful applicants and undertaking probation reviews with the assistance of the Executive Chef.
• Maintaining a high level of food safety and cleanliness at all times in the kitchen, adhere to SFBB standards, make sure check sheets are completed every day.
• Completing 6 monthly appraisals with the kitchen staff as well as day-to-day monitoring.
• Stock control and management, ensuring good levels of stock whilst minimising wastage.
• Cook our brunch dishes to order as well as preparation of our daily menus.
• Ordering and receiving deliveries to the kitchen
• Working with the kitchen management team to develop and price new menus and specials.
• Oversee the maintenance of equipment and report any breakages to the Executive Chef.
• Maintaining open lines of communication regarding day-to-day operational challenges, e.g. stock shortages or unplanned early closure.
• Additional training may be available to the successful candidate.

Chef - Person Specification

• Experience working in a fast-paced, fresh food preparation environment.
• Good multi-tasking and time management
• The ability to manage others and get the most out of them
• A positive can-do attitude, a cool head, and a person who takes pride in their work
• Ability to work flexibly between our food preparation areas

Work Benefits:

• Variety of shifts patterns (early and late starts).
• Option to cross-train between kitchen and bakery.
• Actively encourage product development.
• Referral program.
• Cycle to work.
• Free Parking.
• Casual dress code.
• Free lunch and hot drinks on shift.
• Discounted food and retail products for staff at all three cafés.
• Friendly and vibrant team.
• Flexible working hours.
• The ability to grow your skills and expand your knowledge within the business.

This is a full-time job role. The successful applicant would be looking to dedicate at least 6 months to the role due to our employee onboarding training program here at Hot Numbers. Unfortunately, if you have plans to travel or study this role is not for you. Our full-time contracts are 45 hours based on a 5 day working week out of 7. Weekend availability is a must. A normal working day will most likely start no earlier than 6.00am and finish no later then 4.00pm.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £14.00 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 45 per week

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Referral programme
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Day shift

Experience:

• Kitchen management: 1 year (required)
• Food preparation: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person