Sous Chef - 4 day week + £800 monthly Tronc

The opportunity:

Global Talent 2020 are excited to be working with one of Edinburgh’s leading restaurant companies at their beautifully appointed venue in the heart of city centre. This boutique group are looking for a passionate Sous Chef for their popular, quality focused fine dining restaurant operations.

The Sous role is part of a large dedicated Kitchen brigade, producing high level, locally sourced, fresh, fine dining, food menus across the main restaurant, and private dining areas of this beautifully positioned venue.

Everything is made fresh including the pasta and pizza dough in this classic Italian themed restaurant.

There is a 45 hour working week based on a 4 day working week.

Excellent remuneration, and benefits that include:

• Free meals before and during shifts.
• Generous tips paid via TRONC (Approx £10,000pa).
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme with Hospitality Action and a Health and Wellbeing Coach and a Mental Health First Aider.
• A wide range of team benefits, including free food and tea/coffee, discounted meals for family and friends plus many more.
• Internal and external training and development opportunities, including Academy apprenticeships, scholarships, visits to suppliers and paid training opportunities.
• Length of service benefits including an interest free loan towards purchasing your first home, free flights, extra days holiday and additional employers pension contribution.
• Referral bonuses and Employee of the Month payments.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• 28 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays).
• Company funded Social Club events.
• Access to our Employee Forum - a collective voice for employees by employees.

The person:

Our long-established client at Global Talent 2020, is looking for a proven Sous Chef talent in the kitchen. With a classical understanding of modern Scottish, European, and classic French techniques. Someone who will always be readily approachable, possess a positive can-do mentality and personality, and be an effective communicator. Whilst, possessing sound leadership skills of others and a kitchen. Creative innovation is a must for the client’s guest’s food experiences. There will also be continued career opportunities to further your career, for the right minded individual.

The ideal Sous Chef candidate. must have had prior experience of working in a high-end quality Restaurants or Hotels, ideally with a minimum of one, to two rosette experience to their credit. You must be able to demonstrate good all-round classical culinary technical skills, whilst managing costs, food GP%. The ability to train and develop others within the team, are also highly desired skills, our client is looking for.

All Chef applicants will need to be able to demonstrate their technical abilities at second interview stages.

Our client at Global Talent 2020, offers the right candidate a first-class working historic environment, in a quality focused boutique operation. Delivering consistent locally sourced, sustainable, fresh food Menu’s, working with a talented brigade of like-minded people, in a growing, passionate, people focused, reputable organisation.

Interested? Get in touch today...