Location
London, NW1 4LE

Hours
Predominantly Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week, 7am - 3:30pm, with occasional weekend and evening shifts depending on events

Salary
£35,000 per annum

About the Role
We are Company of Cooks, a team passionate about brilliant food and drink, serving some of the UK’s most loved cultural destinations including historic palaces, botanical gardens, galleries, and performance spaces. Guided by our values of Craft, Creativity and Community, we bring places to life through food, service and creativity.

As a Junior Sous Chef, you will join a dedicated kitchen team of six, including a Head Chef, Sous Chef, Junior Sous Chef, two Chef de Parties, and a Breakfast Chef. Your key responsibilities will include inventing and creating menus that align with client and customer needs, producing food in a timely manner to ensure smooth service, ensuring every dish is ‘picture perfect’, assisting in developing new service styles and food concepts, and communicating ingredient requirements for planned menus.

If you care about food, people and doing things properly, you’ll feel right at home here.

Experience
Contract catering experience is essential.

About you
- Passionate about food and creativity
- Able to work well within a team
- Motivated to maintain high standards in food preparation and presentation
- Flexible to work occasional weekends and evenings as required

Qualifications
Relevant culinary qualifications are desirable but not explicitly stated; enthusiasm and commitment to the role are key.

Benefits
Working with Company of Cooks offers a range of benefits including personal development and training opportunities, life assurance scheme, pension scheme, holiday allowance, private medical eligibility, eye care, a comprehensive wellbeing strategy including Employee Assistance Programme and salary finance, family friendly support, regular social events, holiday purchase scheme, volunteering days, professional subscriptions, recognition schemes and people awards, long service awards, and access to high street discount vouchers.