Head Chef - Hospitality

Baxterstorey

Head Chef - Hospitality

£37000

Baxterstorey, Milton Keynes

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

, 12 Sep | Get your application in now before you're too late!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 9202aba7239a4e888f004a5daa90cb8f

Full Job Description

Lead, Inspire, collaborate and support your direct reports to deliver consistently exceptional standards.

  • Build positive, credible and collaborative relationships & communication methods with clients and other key stakeholders in the business.

  • Continually look to develop your team through mentoring, training, recognition, and empowerment.

  • Create a culture of excellence with your team, continually striving to push the boundaries of brilliance through natural caring service, obsessive food standards and innovation.

  • Achieve business critical KPI's including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance., We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

    Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role

  • Have an obsession for food and creating experiences

  • You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date

  • Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance

  • Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills

  • Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure

  • Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail

  • Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication

  • Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective

  • Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills

  • Works according to the BaxterStorey core values


  • Additional information

    For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that's an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

    We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

    Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team's careers. 'Better' is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

    We only select the best of everything - ingredients, equipment, and most importantly people. Nobody at BaxterStorey just 'falls' into hospitality. They're passionate about what they do. We revolt against the beige, bland and boring. We want people who want to challenge the norm and make a difference to want to work with us. That means we are on the top of our game.

    We Empower Champions
    The old age, 'a happy team is a productive team' has never rung truer. True happiness means career empowerment, flexibility and genuine prospects through structured, creative training, that's exactly what we offer. Making our teams happy is top of our agenda. We ask our teams to Fuel Their Individuality, when you are yourself, you will be at your best.

    We Are Conscientious Protectors
    Our belief in the power of food goes way beyond delighting diners. We never stop looking for ways to improve our communities and drive change for the good of the planet and we ask all our team members to support this ethos too. From helping disadvantaged young people into the industry to sourcing the finest ingredients with the lowest carbon footprint, we're always thinking up new ways - big, small but always bold - to make a difference beyond the plate and being a part of BaxterStorey means that you will support us in making a difference.

    You Can Grow With Us
    Not only will you have the opportunity to better yourself here, you'll be given every encouragement to do so. And because we're growing all the time, there is no limit to what you can achieve. We don't just attract the best people in the industry, we create them., Our values are what we stand up to. They are what make us BaxterStorey, they focus our behaviours on taking action. At BaxterStorey we are:

    ALWAYS VISIONARY - We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

    WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE - We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food and is amplified by our people.

    CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE - We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

    FOREVER CONSCIOUS - We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

  • 28 Days holiday including bank holidays

  • Plus your birthday off

  • 3 volunteering days

  • 3 days grandparent leave.

  • 24 week's enhanced maternity leave.

  • Secondary career leave.

  • Wedding/commitment day leave.

  • Free meals on shift.

  • Bespoke training and development opportunities

  • Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels

  • Pension and life insurance.

  • Discounts available from HAPI app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema.

  • Wellbeing hub.

  • Access to employee assistance programme.

  • Cycle to work scheme.


  • Calling all culinary connoisseurs that are OBSESSED about food, we need you! If you have an insatiable appetite for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create food that delights customers and clients, then look no further. At BaxterStorey we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish, your talents can shine and we wholeheartedly believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft and create a development partnership together to ensure professional growth opportunities.