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Head Chef

Job in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, SY7, England, UK
Listing for: BaxterStorey Limited
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-24
Job specializations:
  • Restaurant/Food Service
    Catering, Food & Beverage, Cook & Chef, Hotel Kitchen
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Competitive Salary with great benefits package

Monday to Friday Role - No weekends or evenings

Great Opportunities for growth and development

  • 28

    Days holiday including bank holidays
  • Plus your birthday as paid day off
  • 26week’s enhanced maternity leave.
  • Secondary carer leave (enhanced; 4 weeks)
  • Paid Wedding/commitment day leave.
  • Free meals on shift.
  • Bespoke training and development opportunities
  • Pension and life insurance.
  • Discounts available on our Perkbox app; high street shops, holidays & cinema
  • 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, we are looking for a skilled Head Chef to set a new standard for workplace hospitality.

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 KPIs including Health and Safety, Sustainability, Financial and Governance.
Qualifications
  • 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 Baxter Storey core values

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

Baxter Storey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

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