Junior Pastry Chef

Job Description

An esteemed graduate college affiliated with a leading university is seeking an inspiring and professional Junior Pastry Sous Chef to join their team through our agency. The successful candidate will play a key role in overseeing kitchen operations and ensuring all food is prepared to a high standard.
The Role

As a Junior Pastry Sous Chef, you will lead by example, providing motivation and inspiration to the team. You will demonstrate high levels of skill in food preparation and presentation, with a particular focus on desserts and sweets.

We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic Junior Sous Chef with:

• Experience in supervising catering operations, managing staff, producing reports, costings, menus, and associated paperwork, or kitchen experience ready to take the next step in development

• Excellent culinary skills, with the ability to design menus for daily catering and special events, coupled with good food cost control abilities

• Strong communication skills to engage professionally with clients, customers, colleagues, and management

• Basic pastry and cake-making skills, with a desire to learn and develop new skills
Why Work Through Us?

Benefits

• Membership of the University s staff benefits program, including 38 days paid holiday and access to world-class facilities.

• Opportunities to contribute to sustainability initiatives and community-building efforts.

• We hold a passion for continued, life-long learning and look to support staff in their continued career development

• We offer all catering staff an annualised hours contract which helps maintain a good work/life balance

• Opportunities to develop individuals and teams via training programmes, experience days and courses

• Flexible working patterns around business needs

Salary: £32,108 to £37,338 per annum (depending on experience)

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