About The Role
Job Title - Head Chef
Full Time
Permanent
Salary – Up To £35,806 Per Annum, Depending On Experience
Location – Café on The Water, Hanningfield, Chelmsford
Welcome to our Beautiful Café on the Water, where we pride ourselves on offering a delightful culinary experience in a picturesque setting. We are seeking a creative, driven, and passionate Head Chef to join our team and lead our kitchen to new heights.
As our Head Chef, you will take full leadership of the kitchen, bringing your expertise and creativity to our breakfast and lunch menus. You will be responsible for designing and updating our breakfast and lunch menus with innovative and delicious dishes. Leading and managing a dedicated kitchen team, you will ensure high standards of food quality and hygiene. You will oversee kitchen operations, including inventory management, ordering supplies, and maintaining equipment. Ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations is crucial. You will also collaborate with the café management to create seasonal specials and promotional menus.
We provide attractive working hours with no evening work and only 3 out of 4 weekends required. You will find a supportive and friendly work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
We are looking for someone with proven experience as a Head Chef or in a similar leadership role in catering. Strong culinary skills, and excellent leadership and team management abilities are essential. A passion for creating innovative dishes, along with knowledge of health and safety regulations is required. The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle pressure is important.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.
About Us
Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply.
NWG At a Glance:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.
We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.
We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.
Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.
Our Benefits
We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.
Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
- Company pension scheme
- Digital GP
- Award winning wellbeing website
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life assurance
- Qualification loans
- Professional subscription
- Buy and sell annual leave
- Discounts and cashback offers
About Us
NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.
We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
