Sous Chef

As a Sous Chef, you'll be the backbone of the team as you'll be working with the Head Chef to inspire and motivate the team, ensuring that all guests have memorable experiences with us. Take a deep breath because you'll be stepping into a busy role! You'll be an inspirational leader within the kitchen and passionate about developing those around you, creating the kitchen you want to lead and working with the Head Chef to provide an amazing service to our guests.

At 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!

• 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


If you're our ideal Sous Chef, you will:

• Be yourself!


• Build working relationships with the Chefs and the team around you


• Believe in 'sharing is caring', and ensure knowledge and expertise are shared amongst team members


• 'Be a show off' and showcase your skills - we want to see what you can do!


• Promote fun and bridge the gaps - be the main connector for your team


• Be an Ambassador of our values for the wider team


Why come join us?

We look after our colleagues just as well as we look after our guests. Once you're part of the team, you're part of the Leonardo community. We have support on tap, so expect top-notch L&D programmes, practical training and clear progression within our vibrant and dynamic team.