Sous Chef

Location: Sittingbourne, Kent – CKK Kitchen

Hours: Sunday – Thursday 10pm -6am

Pay rate : £36.649.60 (Yes, this includes paid breaks)

Join our COOK Family as Sous Chef and be part of a remarkable team at the heart of our kitchen, creating exceptional meals with passion and purpose. 

The Role

Bring our recipes to life by producing the best food with the best ingredients.  With your skill and attention to detail you will create our remarkable products that will guarantee our customers have the best experience every time.  Consistency is key, our customers will keep coming back as they trust you to give them remarkable products winning in taste.

About the Role.

• Create our meals by following our recipes to ensure all our food is consistently of the same high quality.
• Use your knowledge of our food to ensure it is of the correct specification.  Try products prior to decanting and do your upmost to rectify any concerns.
• Sign off all relevant paperwork and ensure information on unity (internal database) has been inputted correctly
• Communication is key.  Ensure that you keep your team up to date with new products coming through the kitchen and team targets are communicated, everyone needs to be working towards the same goal.
• You must ensure that all members of your team (including agency workers) are trained in all aspects of their role.  This includes, all machinery, health and safety, and all relevant work instructions.
• Based on menu plans, organise the team’s workload, review frequently and liaise with your team and other departments to ensure the best utilisation of staff and equipment
• Update the Head Chef regularly on the team’s progress and raise any concerns you have without unnecessary delay.
• Team Leadership. Develop good relations through fair and consistent leadership Conduct all necessary 121 meetings with your team whilst continually showcasing and living by our Values

About You:

• NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent) in catering.
• Experience of working in a kitchen environment is needed and experience of leading a successful team would be great.

If you tick most of these boxes but not all—don’t stress. We’re all about potential.

Excellent Benefits including

• Paid breaks
• free cooked from fresh lunch for all employees
• Free car park
• Paid leave on your birthdays, moving house, become grandparent or your child starts school for the first time
• staff profit share
• Wellbeing program
• 30% staff discount
• Access to CookieJar Smart Spending discounts and free food perks.
• Team meals, events & away days
• Be part of a B-Corp-certified business that values sustainability, people, and the community.

And many more ‿.

 What Cook is About

We’re a proudly independent, family-owned B Corp, which basically means we care. A lot. About our food. About our people. And about doing the right thing—even when it’s not the easy thing.

Our vision for COOK has always been that we are a place where EVERYONE is welcome. We want everyone to feel like they belong at COOK. We all have different roles, different abilities and different personalities. By collaborating we can do remarkable things. Whatever your story, if you would like to grow with COOK please apply.

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