Job Role - Lead Chef
Location: In The Wilde Cafe, Sutton Bank Visitor Centre, YO7 2EH
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Salary: £32,000 – £34,000 per year (OTE £34,000 - 36,000 inclusive of tips)
Hours: Daytime hours only - no evening work
About the Role
In The Wilde is our home inside the North York Moors National Park, sat at the top of Sutton Bank - the view James Herriot called the finest in England. We’re building a kitchen that tastes of where it is: Yorkshire growers, local producers, the seasons setting the menu.
We’re looking for a chef to lead it and to own the food. You’ll set the menu, build the dishes and run the kitchen, with the autonomy of a head chef and a group investing seriously behind you.
It’s daytime only, which means real cooking and proper standards without the late finishes.
You’ll be responsible for producing high-quality, seasonal dishes that showcase the best of our local suppliers, and delivering an exceptional, but simple food offer that enhances the visitor experience.
Day to day you’ll:
- Lead menu planning, recipe development and how every plate looks when it lands
- Cook to a consistently high standard and hold the kitchen to it
- Run a clean, efficient, organised kitchen - ordering, stock, prep
- Be responsible for the hygiene standards in your kitchen
- Build genuine relationships with our local suppliers and growers
- Keep us watertight on food safety, hygiene and health & safety
- Bring on the junior team - train them, stretch them, make them better
- Work hand-in-glove with front of house so service feels effortless
- Champion seasonality and sustainability, workingto reduce waste significantly
You’ll fit right in if you’re
- An experienced chef who’s run a real kitchen and can prove it
- Genuinely creative about menus and build menus around what visitors actually want
- Confident across food safety and kitchen best practice
- Organised, calm and good with time when it’s busy
- A natural leader who can lift a small team rather than just direct it
What you get
- £32,000 – £34,000 salary
- A share of the venue tips
- Daytime hours, no evenings - a hospitality job you can have a life around
- A kitchen you genuinely get to lead and shape
- High-quality, local, seasonal produce to work with
- 40% staff, friends & family discount across the group
- Annual National Park parking pass
- And the small matter of one of the best settings in the country to come to work
Sound like you?
Send your CV and a short note telling us what you’d put on the menu to [email protected].
A driving licence is preferred - Sutton Bank is gloriously remote, which is rather the point.
In The Wilde at Sutton Bank is part of The LH Group, an independent North Yorkshire hospitality group operating within the North York Moors National Park.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: £33,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
