Head Chef - Cotswolds £45,000 - £50,000 Bonus Tips
| Posting date: | 28 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £45,000 to £50,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 December 2025 |
| Location: | GL5 |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | HR-CL Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 599502-40830 |
Summary
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
• 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:
• 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
• 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.