Junior Sous Chef

Chester
Permanent
Full-time

8 days ago

Leonardo Hotel Chester, Pepper House, Pepper Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 1DWSHARE:Be Yourself - Be LeonardoAt 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 ChefWe 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.Some of the perks you could enjoy include:

Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK & Europe: get planning that city break you've been dreaming of!
Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops
Meals on duty
Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us
We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration
The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support
Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression

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.Leonardo Hotel Chester Pepper House, Pepper Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 1DW

Job RefJI27669
BranchLeonardo Hotel Chester
LocationChester
Salary/BenefitsCompetitive Salary
Contract typePermanent
HoursFull Time
Shift pattern7 days - Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun (United Kingdom)
Hours per week40
Date posted26/08/2025
Closing date09/10/2025

About Leonardo Hotel ChesterLeonardo Hotel Chester features 94 stylish and spacious rooms offering en-suite bathrooms with complimentary toiletries, the Leonardo DREAM bed, flat-screen TV's and a spacious desk. For guests looking for a quick bite on the go or a dine-in experience, the on-site Corvo Bar & Restaurant serves food and drink throughout the day, with delicious and interesting sandwiches for eat in and takeaway, it showcases great continental inspired food, paired with great coffee and soft drinks.Located on Pepper Street, Leonardo Hotel Chester is within easy walking distance to local attractions and transport facilities. Travel from top UK cities like London, Liverpool, Manchester or Edinburgh in less than two hours by train to Chester train station, just an 8-minute walk from the hotel.About Leonardo HotelsAt Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality.Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK & Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993! With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.As an employer we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality- it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values: Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and Willing.At Leonardo Hotels each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations!We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system- these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off!

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