Sous Chef

Sous Chef

About us:

The quintessential South West London British pub. A place for guests to relax and enjoy excellent service, the best quality home made British food and wide range of draught beers, wines, spirits & cocktails. Also the home of the infamous Lighthouse Sunday roast as we have positioned our selves as leaders in the Sunday dining experience in south west London.

We pride ourselves, as a team, on working hard together to ensure everyone who sets foot in the business is well looked after. 

We prepare all our food fresh, daily and guest choose from menus we develop fully in house, working together to select locally sourced produce and create seasonal dishes designed to encourage people to come back time and time again to enjoy.

We also champion development, so work together to help you reach the next stage of you career.

If you enjoy a social working environment where everyone supports one another and can dig deep when needed, then we can be a long term home for you.

What we offer our Sous Chefs:

• Free reign to develop ideas and help sourcing, costing and launching dishes. 
• A flexible working week, as we belive everyone desrves thir share of the important time away form work, as well as working together during the busy periods. As such, we spread the workload fairly.
• A staff meal provided on every shift.
• 20% discount in all Young’s pubs and hotels.
• Access to our Sous Chef - Head Chef development Programme: the majority of our head chefs are internal appointments
• Autonomy to create your own menus and specials, alongside your Head Chef
• Access to our Apprenticeship Scheme - Gain a nationally recognised qualification
• Access to regular culinary masterclasses and training days to boost your skills
• Share save Scheme
• Company Pension Scheme
• 28 Days Holiday per year

What we look for in a Sous Chef:

We are looking for an existing Sous Chef or Senior CDP looking for their next step. We will look to learn from each other experiences and keep the business moving forwards. You will be expected to contribute to the culture of the team, which has been together for some years, and we will help you learn and encourage creativity. 

 As the successful Sous Chef you will be expected to have the desire to learn and develop the following:

• Have experience championing excellent service through quality food
• Demonstrate a passion for leading and developing a team and a willingness to learn how to help others.
• Be an active hands-on Chef with excellent communication skills
• Be responsible and able to manage the kitchen staff rota, training and all health and safety effectively at all times
• Working alongside your Head Chef, you will be able to demonstrate your creativity and ability by helping to design and deliver new dishes for our menus and daily specials
• Demonstrate great planning and organisational skills, necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP and labour
• Have a pro-active approach to driving sales and delivering growth, through engagement with both kitchen and front of house teams

We are a rgeat team, whihc as mentioned, has been togheter for many year. We'd like to think this is becasue of the culutere and generrla attitued all the staff have, as we all work hard for one another.

 Thanks for your interest in working with Young's. If you would like to be part of our team, apply now!