Junior Sous Chef

Be Yourself - Be Leonardo At Leonardo Hotels, we are recruiting for a Junior Sous Chef to join our great team in the Kitchen. We are looking for an enthusiastic, genuine and friendly person who really enjoys working in hotels and wants to provide great hospitality to our guests, contributing to them having a memorable stay with us. As Junior Sous Chef We want you to be part of a great and diverse team working together to provide great products to our guests in the restaurant, bar or conference departments. We set high standards for ourselves so that we can surprise and delight our customers and deliver a great experience. Experience we expect - • Exceptional Chef de Partie looking for their first Junior Sous Chef position • Background in branded hotels or restaurants is preferred – so you will understand how we work • Flexiblility – to enjoy working different shift patterns and seeing the operation on different days of the week including the weekends as well as mornings, or evenings (no split-shifts here) • Be comfortable following a standardised menu • To be standards driven and have good organisational skills. • To be able to work well under pressure at times and multi task in a fast paced environment and to enjoy it • Too be able to communicate and motivate your team providing day to day leadership and direction • Good people skills – to work well in a team - we want work to be fun for all of our employees • Know the EHO requirements and be able to ensure the team do to Your responsibilities will be: • Manage, supervise and participate in the preparation of food for all the Food and Beverage outlets. • Ensure food is produced in a timely and efficient manner and meets the highest standards of taste, quality and presentation. • Ensure the control of costs and productivity. • Keeping the team up to date about departmental, hotel and company activities through daily communications • To ensure the kitchen is clean and that the team all know the correct hygiene standards expected. • To ensure the kitchen team follow HACCP and food safety standards. Using the tools and equipment provided. • To train and develop the team within the kitchen so that a talent pipeline exists for future progression, the company host chef development courses such as The Chef Development Programme and we host internal competitions. Why come and work for us – to receive practical training, development and progression within a dynamic and rapidly expanding company. If you want a career in Hospitality then look no further, we have great programs to support your development towards a long and successful career. Some of the great benefits of working for us include: Earn thousands by referring a friend to work with us Stay at one of our Leonardo Hotels UK for a hugely discounted rate and get a reduced rate for friends and family if they want to stay too Company Pension Scheme, Life assurance & Wellbeing support 28 days holiday entitlement including bank holidays, increasing with service to a maximum of 33 days (we even offer Wedding Leave too) The opportunity to work for a well-respected brand where people development is at the heart of our culture An array of learning courses in which you can attend - the sky is the limit with your development with us, we nourish your skills and talents to develop leaders of the future Leo Points – earn performance based points and use them towards that desired product you've been meaning to buy or hey even that well deserved day off!! Employee of the month earning you a little bonus and fame for that entire month. Flexible working hours- shift working is what we do but not split shifts – we want you to have a work-life balance too Uniform & Meals on duty Monthly / Quarterly engagement activities - we like to have fun while working hard Annual Charity Event Day- we help and support our communities Lots of locations in the UK and Ireland which mean that if you want to develop or just fancy a change of scenery, we can help you to move and provide relocation support