Chef
Stokes Tea and Coffee are searching for an enthusiastic, driven Chef who understand the importance and joy of creating fresh, quality and delicious food.
Who We Are
The award-winning Stokes Tea & Coffee has over 120 years of passion and know-how in sourcing, roasting and blending its tea and coffee, supplying businesses locally and across the UK. We operate three destination cafés across Lincolnshire. Each café offers a unique ambience, quality produce and of course the best coffee, which we roast on site, at The Lawn. Alongside this, our sister companies, The Blue Room and Charlotte House Hotel, offer beautiful event spaces to suit every visitor and occasion, so there are plenty of career opportunities to explore.
At Stokes we are passionate about our people, customers and communities and are constantly evolving to meet the challenges of a changing world, ethically, sustainably and responsibly. We have committed to use business as a force of good and have recently been awarded BCorp Certification. This is a global marker for accountability around social and environmental performance. We want to partner and grow with our team members by offering a supportive work environment that provides better work-life balance, a learning culture to enhance skills, share knowledge and develop your career, as well as offer fair reward. Our management pathway is open to all team members who consistently demonstrate Stokes’s behaviours and values.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Stokes Chef, you will be part of a friendly, organised team, well-know for producing quality, locally sourced, seasonal food and superb service. This is an amazing opportunity to not only showcase your talents, but to develop these skills and grow within our ambitious and expanding business. You will be fully accustomed to busy service and jumping into any section, as well as following specs to ensure Stokes family recipes are delivered just like great, great grandma made. You will need your instinctive understanding of food to deliver seasonal specials, as well as meet our high standards to consistently produce delicious dishes for our wonderful guests.
All of our cafes open 7 days a week, with weekend working essential.
What We Are Looking For
You will be a focused team-player who loves cooking, likely to have significant cooking ability and experience, working with fresh ingredients but looking for a better, work-life balance and a supportive environment. Your work ethic is exemplary, with your instinct to be organised and prepared. You consistently deliver precise, delicious dishes delivered with care and enjoy sharing your skills and knowledge. You rigorously follow food health and hygiene routines to maintain an orderly kitchen, ready for any demands of service.
Essential Requirements
- Previous experience of working as a chef with fresh ingredients
- Team player with outstanding work ethic
- Ability to work calmly, confidently and effectively in a high-pressured, fast-paced environment
- Naturally organised and shares knowledge and skills.
- Flexibility required across the week with regular weekend working
- To apply you must be able to work in the UK
What we offer
- Daytime hours ( generally 7.30am / 8am - 3.30pm /4pm)
- Paid for each hour of work
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day and Easter Sunday Off
- Discounted food and drinks at work
- Reward & Recognition Schemes
- Training and Development including a Management Pathway
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health and Wellbeing Programme
- Employee high-street discounts
- In-store discounts
- Staff socials
- Supportive team environment
- Workplace pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Bereavement Leave
How to apply
Please send an up-to-date and relevant CV, along with a statement setting out why you would be amazing in this role.
We are fortunate to have hugely positive responses to our campaigns, and whilst we try to reply to all our lovely candidates, if you have not been contacted within two weeks, your application has unfortunately not been progressed.
Stokes values a diverse and inclusive workforce and resolutely believes that this can bring fresh ideas, thinking and approaches to the way we work and better serve our customers, partners and employees. We welcome everyone from everywhere to come and join our team. Please let us know if we can support you in any specific ways to apply to join us.
Pay: Up to £12.85 per hour
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- Tell us what you are ideally looking for and why you would like this role.
- How many hours would you ideally work each week?
- This role require flexibility across the week, are there any restrictions to your working week?
Experience:
Work Location: In person
