Head Chef

We are looking for you who love the restaurant industry and who are looking for a new challenge. You are a positive, natural and unpretentious leader with a passion for cooking. You are good at building team spirit and a good team whose shared goal is to create and deliver high-class food.

As Head Chef, you develop the menu with local elements and ingredients, together with the Pub Manager, using your commitment and knowledge.

The Head Chef leads the kitchen work and scheduling, and is responsible for ensuring that the rules on food handling and hygiene are followed. Financial awareness and flexibility are a must.

About the company: The Bishops Arms is a chain of quality gastropubs that are strongly rooted in the British pub tradition, with a fantastic range of drinks and food. The first The Bishops Arms opened in 1993, and today there are just over 40 The Bishops Arms pubs from Kiruna in the north to Malmö in the south. Roughly half of all pubs are located adjacent to an Elite Hotel, and our pubs are open every day of the year.

The Bishops Arms offers a quality, seasonal, varied and good-value menu, and we constantly strive to raise the quality of food and are keen to see local ingredients and specialities developed. The menu is created locally based on local ingredients and demand, with a common framework, which gives our menus a unique local character and gives our guests reassurance about what The Bishops Arms stands for.

With us you will cook based on Swedish flavours, Swedish beer culture and with a focus on the local. Small dishes, main courses and desserts prepared with care for both the ingredients and our guests, professionally presented in our classic English-inspired pub setting

The Bishops Arms is part of Elite Hotels and we offer a workplace with great opportunities for development within the company and the group.

What you get

• Pleasant colleagues

• Secure working conditions

• Opportunity for internal & external training

To succeed in this role we see that you

• Have a great passion for food and service

• Are meticulous

• Are proactive

• Are social and friendly

• Are a team player

Duties include, among others:

• Responsibility for staffing and scheduling the kitchen.

• Recruitment of kitchen staff in consultation with the Pub Manager.

• Invoice handling

• Menu setting together with the Pub Manager and menu planning (recipe writing, costing, writing/ordering menus)

• Training kitchen staff in current and established routines and working methods.

• Training service staff on allergens and night food.

• Lead the work in the kitchen, take action and follow up that staff work according to set criteria and policies.

• Communicate regularly with the Pub Manager about what is happening in the kitchen regarding menus, events, staff, or to get help and find solutions together to develop the operation.

• Order service/repairs of equipment.

• Monthly stocktaking

• Responsibility for environmental work in the kitchen including HACCP, follow-up and establishment of self-inspection routines.

• Responsibility for key figures in the kitchen such as gross profit and staff.

You will work in a strong and capable group where we value well-being above all. If you do not have fun and enjoy your job, you do not do a good job, that is how we think. We want our staff to grow and develop with us!

The employment is a permanent full-time position. The working hours are mostly in the evenings, spread across weekdays and weekends. Salary by agreement.