At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead kitchen operations and create exceptional dishes in a vibrant hotel setting.
- Company: Castle Hotel Windsor, a historic landmark with a family-owned ethos.
- Benefits: Free hotel breaks, wellness perks, and extensive training opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic work culture with a focus on personal development and team support.
- Why this job: Join a passionate team and elevate your culinary skills in a prestigious environment.
- Qualifications: Experience as a Junior Sous Chef or Senior Chef de Partie with strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 35000 - 35000 £ per year.
The Castle Hotel Windsor is a landmark hotel on Windsor High Street, directly opposite Windsor Castle and at the heart of the town’s historic and royal setting. Positioned as The Original Local, we combine deep local knowledge with warm, confident hospitality for guests from around the world.
With significant investment underway, including newly refurbished rooms and a new restaurant and bar concept celebrating heritage and locally sourced produce, the Castle Hotel is entering an exciting new chapter. As part of Sir Richard Sutton Ltd, a family-owned business, the hotel offers the opportunity to grow within an organisation committed to excellence, people development and building a beautiful legacy for the future. We aim to create environments where teams feel supported, trusted and proud of the experience they create together.
About the role:
The Sous Chef plays a pivotal role in supporting the Head Chef and Senior Sous Chef in delivering exceptional food quality and maintaining the highest kitchen standards. This is a hands-on leadership position, responsible for overseeing day-to-day kitchen operations, leading service, developing the brigade, and ensuring consistency, efficiency, and compliance across all areas of the kitchen.
- Previous experience as a Junior Sous Chef, Sous Chef, or an experienced Senior Chef de Partie ready to take the next step in a high-quality, fast-paced kitchen.
- Excellent knowledge of food hygiene, HACCP, kitchen safety, stock control, and cost management.
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop a team during busy service periods.
- Strong organisational, communication, and time management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- A passion for producing consistently high-quality food and maintaining excellent presentation standards.
- The ability to remain calm, decisive, and solution-focused under pressure.
- Experience supporting ordering, stock management, and minimising waste to achieve financial targets.
- A collaborative leadership style with a commitment to coaching and developing junior chefs.
- Flexible availability, including evenings, weekends, and public holidays.
- Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate (preferred).
Our People
The Sutton Hotel Collection is a family-owned group, thus by extension, our people are our family. We recognise how much our people invest in us, in turn, we offer exceptional learning opportunities, as well as best in class benefits for our team.
Our Benefits
- Free and discounted hotel breaks - From the first day of service, you can benefit from a free break of one/two days in any Sutton Hotel Collection hotel, in a 12-month period. Additionally you, your family and your friends are also entitled to discounted stays across all of our hotels and dining in our restaurants.
- Heka benefits platform – your access to Heka begins from day one and is pre-loaded with a balance of £150 to use against a wide range of wellness focussed products, experiences and schemes including health cash plans and gym memberships.
- Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work, tech and electric vehicles (T&Cs apply).
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave (26 weeks at 90% for expectant mothers, four weeks leave at 90% for fathers).
- Loyalty awards, annual social and celebration events.
- Learning and Development - An extensive range of training opportunities are available to facilitate your personal development.
- Wisdom Wellbeing - A confidential service offering therapy, up-to-date information, support and advice on a broad range of subjects.
- Subsidised Learning Courses - We encourage your learning and development so would like to contribute to courses you would like us to explore.
We also provide you with all the basic benefits such as free nutritious and tasty meals on duty, complimentary on-site parking (where available), and bespoke uniforms where appropriate. At the Sutton Hotel Collection, we are an inclusive, natural, generous, ethical and diverse group of people, we celebrate human relationships and kinship. We enable our people to make the place.
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