Sous Chef

The Belfry Hotel & Resort is an award-winning hotel, home to 300+ luxurious bedrooms and suites, several restaurants and bars, events and meetings spaces, a leisure club and spa. Our three golf courses, including The Brabazon, are recognised as world-class, and home to this year’s Betfred British Masters. Whether you're drawn to our iconic golf courses, the serenity of the spa, the excitement of guest services, or our behind-the-scenes operations, there's a place for you in our vibrant team.

The Belfry has undergone a major expansion and renovation with an investment of over £80 million, marking a new and exciting chapter in our history. The resort has been transformed with the addition of The Masters Suite, a stunning new event space, 149 additional bedrooms, a state-of-the-art leisure club and a host of other enhancements that elevate the Belfry experience like never before.

We believe in taking care of our team just as much as we do our guests. That's why we were named in the 2024 Caterer’s Top 30 Best Places to Work, as well as Springboard’s 2024 Best Employer. So, join us on our journey as we unveil a new and unparalleled resort.

The Pastry Kitchen is a small but perfectly formed kitchen that produces desserts, pastries, cakes and sweet treats for the whole resort. Working alongside a great team of chefs, you will work together to deliver a variety of hand-crafted desserts to all of our food and beverage outlets.

Our pastry kitchen produces a high volume of pastry and sweets to a very high standard, the team is headed up by our amazingly talented head pastry chef, who is passionate about developing our teams knowledge and skills to make our team the best patissiers in the business.

The on-target earning potential for this role is £38,637.32 annual salary, compromising of a base salary of £36,341.00 plus a qualified estimate of £2,296.32 gratuities per annum.

As a Sous Chef your day will be focused on the running, training and development of the team to deliver our desserts and pastries to the resort.

• Set up and preparation of menus items ready for food service, numbers based on hotel occupancy for the resort
• Cooking and delivering beautifully crafted food using the best ingredients sourced from local suppliers
• Responsibility for running a safe and compliant kitchen
• Running a section of the kitchen throughout a busy service and providing support to your teammates to ensure a fast and accurate delivery
• Management, training and development
• Opportunities to order stock, write menus alongside the kitchen managers, implement menu ideas
• Deputising for the Head Chef

The ideal candidate will have experience in as a Pastry Sous Chef or above and possess excellent communication and presentation skills.

In addition, you will be:

• An inspirational leader, a quick thinker and a brilliant communicator
• Passionate about fine food and working with seasonal ingredients
• Standards-driven, with a fantastic eye for detail
• Experienced in taking ownership over your section and working towards guidelines of portion control including weights and measurements and logging all wastage for more accurate GP %
• Able to develop strong relationships with your team, and colleagues
• Proficient in understanding of COSHH and HACCP on food storage.

We inspire and develop our team through on-the-job coaching & mentoring, in-house training and provide access to our online learning platform, The Belfry Campus. We offer apprenticeships in a host of subjects delivering nationally recognised qualifications to help advance careers, and our LEAD development programme empowers and inspires our teams to grow from Team Member through to Executive roles. We aim to promote internally where possible, nurture ambition and ensure all our team looking to progress have development plans in place, to support you to achieve your potential.

We prioritise your wellbeing with discounted gym memberships and wellness programmes for personal growth. Partnering with The Burnt Chef Project, we offer mental health support and access to funded counselling. Our healthcare schemes include…