This is an exciting opportunity for a chef who wants to push the business forward, elevate the food offering, and turn an already reputable kitchen into a genuine destination restaurant.

Benefits

  • £55,000 + performance bonus + tips
  • Private medical insurance
  • Free on-site parking
  • Wednesday–Saturday lunch & dinner | Sunday lunch only
  • Closed Monday & Tuesday
  • Training & development budget
  • Strong work-life balance

The Role

You’ll take full ownership of the kitchen, shaping menus, leading the team, and using the hotel’s two kitchen gardens and local suppliers to create outstanding seasonal dishes. The business is looking for a chef who can:

  • Strengthen the brand and reposition the venue as a restaurant with rooms
  • Develop food-led events, new services, and stronger local engagement
  • Maintain GP at 70 and manage kitchen wage budgets
  • Drive social media presence and champion the provenance of ingredients
  • Lead, mentor and grow a small, talented brigade
  • Deliver consistency that builds recognition, reviews and repeat business

About You

  • Passionate about seasonality, local sourcing, foraging and kitchen gardens
  • Strong leader with excellent communication and team development skills
  • Commercially aware with good understanding of GP, costing and budgeting
  • Creative, ambitious, and motivated to push the business forward
  • Collaborative, working closely with FOH and ownership

If you’re driven, ambitious and want the platform to put your stamp on a growing Cotswolds destination restaurant, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today with your CV.

Jubilee Recruitment – acting as an agency on behalf of the client.

Interested?

We are actively reviewing applicant details so if this Head Chef job vacancy is of interest to you, please apply today.

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The consultant handling this opening is Leon Rook who can be reached on on leon.rook@jubileetalent.com - please get in touch if any questions regarding this position or other similar job vacancies.

Jubilee Recruitment is acting as an employment agency in relation to this permanent vacancy.