We are looking for an authentic and driven Junior Sous Chef (Full-Time) to join us at Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel and embrace your unique, best self to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections!
At Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel we want to deliver a ridiculously personal service to all our guests, whether they are relaxing in our Spa or enjoying sustainably sourced Scottish seafood in our iasg restaurant. As Glasgow’s only 5* Hotel, our team are focussed on providing our guests with 5* service and making heartfelt human connections in our boutique hotel, standing strong in Glasgow’s city centre.
As a Junior Sous Chef, we will support you to:
- Be yourself - bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
- Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
- Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!
What do you need to be a Junior Sous Chef? Well, your main duties and responsibilities will be supporting the Head Chef to complete all elements of Kitchen operation involved within our iasg Restaurant. Our Junior Sous Chef will ensure that all food prepared in a timely manner to the highest quality and that the guest expectations are consistently exceeded in line with a Kimpton stay. Our sustainable menu has a focus on fish and local flavours – check out our website here to find out more about our offering! You will support our team of 7 chefs, training, developing and coaching them whilst managing approximately 60-120 covers a day.
So, we are looking for someone who has…
- Availability to work 40 hours per week across 4 shifts (weekend and evening availability essential)
- Experience as a Chef de Partie or Senior Chef de Partie within a similar style of venue, with proven success and evidence of progression
- Experience supervising and training a team would be a benefit, you will be someone who is passionate about training and developing your team to the best of their ability
- As a minimum, must have completed level 3 Food Safety certification and have knowledge in HACCP
- Knowledge of appropriate systems to support operational processes– Micros Simphony (or relevant POS), Procure Wizard and Dimensions
- Knowledge of working to brand standards relating to food and the ability to create and deliver appropriate menus, using appropriate suppliers and product
Joining the Kimpton family isn’t just about providing our guests with excellent service, we also have secured a spot in Fortune’s ‘100 best companies to work for’ 7 times since 2009, and it is no surprises why! We can offer you…
- Financial security - £35,555.52 per annum guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, paid holidays, subsidised unsocial hour travel support and enhanced sick pay! Plus Tronc paid monthly.
- Growth and development – extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice.
- Colleague perks - worldwide discounted room rates and discounted F&B whilst on employee rate (IHG has over 6,000 hotels and growing), plus generous friends and family rate. Discounts through our portal on your supermarket shop, experiences and loads of retailers on our perks portal.
- Wellbeing – generous maternity/paternity pay and subsidised childcare support, employee assistance programme available 24/7 and access to mental health first-aiders
- Hotel specific benefits – Generous discounts in our newly renovated Spa and our F&B outlets (*must be booked according to processes)!
If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today! Check out our Instagram page @kimptonblythswoodsquare to see more.
You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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