Sous Chef
Posted 12 hours 56 minutes ago by John Lewis Partnership
Working on an island, living in a castle with red squirrels at your window sounds like a fantasy but due to the wonderful and unique Brownsea Castle this could be your reality. It's our place by the sea, our island getaway across beautiful Poole Harbour offering an escape to our Partners with history and nature in abundance. Guests stay on the National Trust run island in the amazing Tudor castle, set amongst 17 acres of private grounds with stunning Italian gardens and a dedicated beach offering relaxation and beautiful nature walks. If you are looking for a hotel with a difference, this could be it. You'll be surrounded by a team of passionate and dedicated hospitality Partners who give our guests the best experience possible. What is different about our guests though is that they are Partners with their friends and family. As co owners in the business, you'll see this difference in the way your teammates and you approach your job and carry out your responsibilities. With all of the island to explore or using any of the facilities on offer - a croquet lawn, children's play area, badminton, football, cricket, fishing, archery and frisbee golf - you can guarantee that our guests will be hungry and looking to recharge with the fantastic food offering we give them.
Boats: We have our own private boat service from Poole Quay and Salterns Marina to get Partners to and from work, these boats run approximately once a hour between 7am - 11pm. Castello Boat berths in the Marina at Poole and Enterprise at Salterns. Car parking: Parking for Poole can be found on BCP Council car park information page - and for Salterns marina there is on road parking on Dorset lakes road, the marina is permit parking only. Buses: Buses from Salterns stop at 7pm and all staff are required to cover late night shifts beyond the bus times.
Salary: £30,600 - £41,700
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: The role requires flexibility to work varied shifts, including weekends and evenings, to support the operational needs of the business.
Location: Brownsea Castle
Responsibilities- Assisting the Head Chef to plan, produce and deliver the club's food offer and agreed food presentation standards, in line with current trends and customer demand.
- Taking responsibility for the kitchen in the Head Chef's absence.
- Leading the team to deliver food safety compliance.
- Using your knowledge and expertise to train and develop chefs and kitchen porters, including all aspects of food preparation.
- Developing Partners and team performance through active use of performance management and development tools.
- Achieving first profit and GP targets by controlling food and pay costs and managing effective rotas.
- Achieving sales targets by managing food offer availability and ensuring the front of house team is fully equipped to upsell.
- Driving catering sales to meet or exceed budget and last year's performance.
- Achieving and maintaining the business standard for product knowledge and expertise.
- Conducting daily compliance checks, ensuring all records are up to date (e.g., temperature of fridges, cleaning schedules, correct use of chemicals, PPE, H & S, and food safety policies).
- Meeting all legislative requirements for the catering environment, to include allergens.
- Act in accordance with the Partnership's purpose and democratic principles.
- Food Safety level 3.
- Relevant professional chef qualifications: City & Guilds diplomas in professional cookery, BTEC HNC in professional cookery or equivalent.
- Proven leadership skills.
- Strong organisational and planning skills.
- Commercial awareness of GP to be achieved and price point limitations.
- Ability to interpret and enforce food safety policy and health and safety regulations.
- Understanding of HACCP.
- Team Player.
- Continue personal development to ensure skill level and food style is up to date and market trend driven.
- Skilled influencer, motivator or coach.
- Keen to develop the food offer.
- Show creativity in food service.
- Ability to adapt menu items to cater for individual requirements.
It's important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you'll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.