Head Chef Vacancy at The White Lion Hotel in Aldeburgh

White Lion Hotel
Market Cross Place
Aldeburgh
Suffolk
IP15 5BJ

Salary up to £38,000.00

Full-time, Permanent

The Hotel Folk are looking for an experienced Head Chef at our historic White Lion Hotel in the beautiful seaside town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

You will be responsible for creating a new menus using the best and freshest of Suffolk produce and British flavours to create delicious and well presented dishes for our hotel guests and regulars alike.

The ideal candidate will be a great communicator and leader, able to develop our chefs, whilst also ensuring compliance across all areas of the kitchen.

Here’s what we’re looking for in our new Head Chef…

Extraordinary Service, ensuring every dish leaving the kitchen tastes and looks as good as the last

Dedicated to The Details, overseeing all elements of food and kitchen safety making sure no detail is over looked

Hospitality Expert, understanding your guest to ensure menus are appealing and delivering for the target market

Unity in Community, working with your kitchen brigade and front of house team ensuring the two teams work in harmony

Making it Happen, if you spot an opportunity to improve the guest experience, do it, we’re looking for someone who isn’t going to walk on by

If you think this Head Chef role is for you, take a read through the fantastic benefits on offer:

• A share of the tips

• Free Golf at Thorpeness Golf Club and Hotel

• 28 days annual leave p.a.

• 50% off food in all our hotel restaurants

• B&B in any of our hotels from only £50 per room, per night

• 50% off treatments & discounted products at our Weavers' House Spa

• Hospitality Action - Employee Assistance Programme, Retail Discounts

• Company pension scheme

• Tailored company induction and continued training and development opportunities

About The Hotel Folk:

Founded in 1996, The Hotel Folk have grown to comprise of six unique and individual family run hotels, a Country Club, and luxurious Spa. Whilst all our properties are charmingly individual with their own unique personality, the thing they all have in common is the people; a community of Folk obsessed with looking after our guests and delivering a blow-your-socks-off hospitality experience.

You must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship to apply for this role