We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Sous Chef to join our team!

We need you to lead our small but mighty kitchen team at The Breakfast Club, Chelmsford. As senior support you will act as second in command, ensuring the professional and commercial success of the kitchen is delivered to The Breakfast Club standard. 

Benefits!

• Paid breaks!
• Free meal and drinks on every shift.
• 50% discounts on all food and drink for you and up to 3 of your friends.
• Share of Tronc for every hour worked, 100% of our Tronc goes to our employees, access Tronc as you earn it.
• Wagestream, you can claim 50% of your wages as you earn them.
• Paid volunteering through our Good Day community initiative. 
• 24/7 access to external, free, and confidential employee assistance helplines including free counselling, financial and legal advice.
• Join The BC Track Club with opportunity to access some life changing running challenges and more.

The Role and you

You will be a positive influence in our kitchen, supporting the Head Chef to deliver the Nation’s Best Loved Caf, while generating a culture of loyalty, opportunity, and support.

You’ll be part of a close-knit, supportive, and dynamic team. You will influence the standard of food we deliver, the environment our food is prepared in and the financial results that allow us to grow.

Your Qualities

• Be warm, genuine, kind and caring towards anyone you meet.
• Always remember ‘how you do anything is how you do everything’.
• Able to produce outstanding quality food regardless of business levels.
• Enthusiasm to adapt within The Breakfast Club, developing your own skills and knowledge.
• Adaptability to change and willingness to embrace new ideas and processes.
• Display a positive attitude and approachable manner.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead By Example: Support your Head Chef to manage lead your team and take full responsibility of your kitchen and team in the Head Chefs absence.
• Opening and Closing Duties: Complete opening and closing duties accordingly each day.
• Food Preparation and Cleaning Kitchen: Assist with food prep and help maintain a clean and organized kitchen.
• Training Delivery: Help train and develop the current team and any new team members.
• Stock Control & Efficiency: Manage stock effectively to maintain efficiency and meet cost of goods and wastage management targets.
• Labour Controls: Manager smart rotas – reactively edit rotas where necessary to meet targets and plan accordingly for quieter and busier periods.
• Food Safety and Health and Safety: Maintain a consistently safe working environment by ensuring our kitchens are safe and compliant.

This Job Ad is not a definite overview of the expected duties. Items may be added in the future to support our development.  
We will share a talk through a full Job Description at the interview stage and are happy to discuss any queries.

We think everybody deserves the chance to work with us. We’re proud to work with a number of organisations that support people with disabilities, prison leavers & people that have experienced homelessness into work. We do not ask about prison history in our application process & are also disability confident employers. If you feel you’d have a fairer chance at working with us by using a different name or leaving off your age, ethnicity or gender on your application then go for it. If you need any further adjustments to our recruitment process to make it fairer for you then please let us know.

Salaries are based on OTE (On target earnings).

Interested? Apply now!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Sous Chef to join our team!

We need you to lead our small but mighty kitchen team at The Breakfast Club, Chelmsford. As senior support you will act as second in command, ensuring the professional and commercial success of the kitchen is delivered to The Breakfast Club standard. 

Benefits!

• Paid breaks!
• Free meal and drinks on every shift.
• 50% discounts on all food and drink for you and up to 3 of your friends.
• Share of Tronc for every hour worked, 100% of our Tronc goes to our employees, access Tronc as you earn it.
• Wagestream, you can claim 50% of your wages as you earn them.
• Paid volunteering through our Good Day community initiative. 
• 24/7 access to external, free, and confidential employee assistance helplines including free counselling, financial and legal advice.
• Join The BC Track Club with opportunity to access some life changing running challenges and more.

The Role and you

You will be a positive influence in our kitchen, supporting the Head Chef to deliver the Nation’s Best Loved Caf, while generating a culture of loyalty, opportunity, and support.

You’ll be part of a close-knit, supportive, and dynamic team. You will influence the standard of food we deliver, the environment our food is prepared in and the financial results that allow us to grow.

Your Qualities

• Be warm, genuine, kind and caring towards anyone you meet.
• Always remember ‘how you do anything is how you do everything’.
• Able to produce outstanding quality food regardless of business levels.
• Enthusiasm to adapt within The Breakfast Club, developing your own skills and knowledge.
• Adaptability to change and willingness to embrace new ideas and processes.
• Display a positive attitude and approachable manner.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead By Example: Support your Head Chef to manage lead your team and take full responsibility of your kitchen and team in the Head Chefs absence.
• Opening and Closing Duties: Complete opening and closing duties accordingly each day.
• Food Preparation and Cleaning Kitchen: Assist with food prep and help maintain a clean and organized kitchen.
• Training Delivery: Help train and develop the current team and any new team members.
• Stock Control & Efficiency: Manage stock effectively to maintain efficiency and meet cost of goods and wastage management targets.
• Labour Controls: Manager smart rotas – reactively edit rotas where necessary to meet targets and plan accordingly for quieter and busier periods.
• Food Safety and Health and Safety: Maintain a consistently safe working environment by ensuring our kitchens are safe and compliant.

This Job Ad is not a definite overview of the expected duties. Items may be added in the future to support our development.  
We will share a talk through a full Job Description at the interview stage and are happy to discuss any queries.

We think everybody deserves the chance to work with us. We’re proud to work with a number of organisations that support people with disabilities, prison leavers & people that have experienced homelessness into work. We do not ask about prison history in our application process & are also disability confident employers. If you feel you’d have a fairer chance at working with us by using a different name or leaving off your age, ethnicity or gender on your application then go for it. If you need any further adjustments to our recruitment process to make it fairer for you then please let us know.

Salaries are based on OTE (On target earnings).

Interested? Apply now!