Head Chef

🌱 Be Part of Something New

Head Chef – Greenmeadow Community Farm

Location: Greenforge Way, Cwmbran, Torfaen, NP44 5AJ
Salary: £30,000 – £33,000 per annum + benefits
Opening: August 2025

Greenmeadow Community Farm is preparing to open its gates in August 2025, and we’re looking for a passionate, creative, and experienced Head Chef to lead the kitchen team across our brand-new, multi-outlet catering operation.

This is a unique opportunity to shape a fresh, exciting food offering in a vibrant, family-focused setting—perfect for a chef who thrives on variety, innovation, and leading from the front.

🌟 Benefits Include:

• £30k–£33k salary (DOE)
• 28 days holiday per annum
• 3 volunteering days
• 3 days grandparent leave
• 24 weeks enhanced maternity leave
• Bespoke training and development opportunities
• Pension & life insurance
• Discounts via Perkbox (retail, cinema, travel & more)
• Wellbeing hub & employee assistance programme
• Free meals while at work
• Career development & apprenticeships for all levels

🍽️ What Makes This Role Exciting?

You’ll lead the culinary direction across a diverse and dynamic food operation, including:

• A welcoming Farmshop with local produce and artisan goods
• A lively Café Restaurant serving seasonal, farm-inspired dishes
• A stylish Barista Coffee Bar
• Family-friendly Concessions across the site
• A buzzing Playbarn Café
• A wide range of Events & Hospitality, including weddings, school visits, and seasonal celebrations

✅ What We’re Looking For:

• A proven Head Chef with experience in high-volume, multi-outlet environments
• Strong background in event and wedding catering
• A passion for fresh, seasonal, and sustainable food
• Excellent leadership and team development skills
• Financially aware with experience in stock control, GP management, and supplier relationships
• Highly organised, calm under pressure, and detail-oriented
• Able to work 5 out of 7 days, including weekends and evenings

🌿 Why Join Us?

• Be part of an exciting new chapter from day one
• Work in a beautiful, nature-rich setting with a strong community focus
• Help shape the food and hospitality experience at one of the region’s most anticipated new attractions

🚀 Ready to build something amazing?

Apply now and be part of the Greenmeadow story from the very beginning.

Key Responsibilities

As Head Chef, you’ll play a pivotal role in launching and leading a vibrant, multi-outlet kitchen operation at one of the region’s most exciting new destinations. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the culinary direction across the farm’s food outlets, including the Farmshop, Café Restaurant, Barista Coffee Bar, Playbarn Café, Concessions, and Events & Hospitality spaces
• Building and managing a skilled kitchen team, ensuring high standards of food quality, safety, and hygiene across all outlets
• Overseeing daily kitchen operations, including food preparation, stock control, supplier relationships, allergen management, and cost control
• Collaborating with front-of-house and events teams to deliver seamless service for school visits, seasonal events, weddings, and private functions
• Maintaining consistency and excellence across a logistically varied site, ensuring smooth kitchen operations and timely service
• Implementing and upholding food safety and quality standards, including full compliance with HACCP procedures
• Delivering exceptional hospitality experiences through creative, seasonal, and locally inspired menus
• Driving innovation and continuous improvement, adapting menus and operations based on feedback, trends, and evolving visitor needs

✅ What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience as a Head Chef or Senior Sous Chef in a high-volume, quality-focused environment
• A strong background in wedding and event catering—you know how to deliver under pressure and exceed expectations
• A track record of leading, training, and motivating kitchen teams to deliver consistently high standards
• Financially astute, with experience in managing food costs, GP, stock control, and supplier relationships
• Excellent coaching, delegation, and leadership skills—you lead by example and bring out the best in others
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and calm under pressure, even during peak service
• An empathetic and effective communicator with a collaborative, solution-focused mindset
• Strong menu development, planning, and critical reasoning skills
• Able to work 5 out of 7 days, including weekends and evenings as required by the operation

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.