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JOB TITLE: Head Chef
REPORTING TO: Head of House and Operations
HOURS: 40 per week on a shift basis
SALARY: Based upon experience
At Waverley Abbey, we dream of providing a world-class hospitality experience – centered around simple excellence. Our goal is to create a 5-star guest experience where every visitor feels valued, cared for and uplifted through outstanding food,exceptional service, and a life-giving welcome. We are now seeking an experienced and visionary Head Chef to lead our culinary team and shape the future of our food offering.
This is an exciting opportunity for a creative and driven chef to bring innovation, excellence, and leadership to our café and dining offer and restaurant development.
The Role
The Head Chef will be responsible for developing a distinctive, high-quality, seasonal food offer that excites and attracts guests while overseeing all aspects of kitchen operations. This includes menu planning, team leadership, financial management, and ensuring consistently exceptional food and service standards.
You will work closely with the House Manager and Food & Beverage Operations Manager to deliver a memorable dining experience that reflects our values of kindness, excellence, and abundance.
Key Responsibilities
> Menu Development: Create and maintain seasonal, high-quality menus that meet customer demand, enhance guest satisfaction, and attract new visitors.
> Operational Leadership: Oversee all kitchen operations, ensuring smooth, efficient, and profitable service across cafe, restaurant & events.
> Team Management: Recruit, train, and develop the kitchen team. Conduct appraisals, manage performance, and foster a positive, professional working environment.
> Health & Safety: Ensure full compliance with food safety, hygiene, and health and safety regulations. Train staff in safe practices and maintain high operational standards.
> Financial Management: Monitor and control food costs, stock levels, and kitchen margins, delivering profitability without compromising quality.
> Collaboration: Work in partnership with Front of House and Marketing/Events teams to ensure seamless service delivery and contribute to the promotion of Waverley Abbey’s hospitality offering.
> Guest Focus: Consistently deliver dishes of the highest standard, accommodating dietary requirements and ensuring all guests enjoy an outstanding experience.
About You
We are looking for an inspirational leader and talented chef who shares our passion for excellence and hospitality. The ideal candidate will bring both creativity and strong management skills to the role.
Essential qualities:
> 3–5 years’ experience in a senior kitchen management role within a busy, quality-driven environment.
> Proven track record in developing and delivering innovative food concepts.
> Strong leadership skills with experience managing and motivating a team.
> Commercially astute with experience managing budgets, margins, and stock control.
> Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – able to build strong relationships across teams and with guests.
> Organised, reliable, and detail-oriented.
> A proactive, “yes-can-do” mentality with a passion for excellence and guest care.
Why Join Us?
At Waverley Abbey, you’ll be part of a team committed to creating extraordinary hospitality experiences. This is more than a kitchen role – it’s a chance to shape a food offer that inspires, delights, and reflects our mission to serve guests with simple excellence, kindness and joy.
If you are a driven Head Chef with creativity, vision, and leadership, we’d love to hear from you.
Please send your CV and a covering letter.
Registered Charity 
Thank you!
Join our friendly team at Age UK East Grinstead & District! We’re looking for a passionate Cook to run the kitchen at our Glen Vue Centre, preparing tasty, nutritious meals for our lovely members. You’ll manage daily cooking, stock and supplies, and lead a small team of volunteers, all while making a real difference to older people in our community.
Working Hours: Mon – Fri, 9am–3pm (30 hrs per week)
Salary: £26,000–£28,000 pro rata (DOE)
Driving licence and own car required
Deadline for applications: Friday 25th October
Interviews: Week commencing 27th October
6 - 10
Thank you!
Chief Executive Officer – St Luke’s Community Centre
Location: London EC1V (on-site presence required)
Salary: Between £95,000 - £105,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Are you ready to guide St Luke’s Community Centre - south Islington’s 500-year-old community hub - into its next era of intergenerational community impact?
About St Luke’s
St Luke’s Community Centre traces its roots back over 500 years, stewarding ancient parish endowments to relieve poverty in our defined area of benefit. In 1982 we opened our purpose-built home on Central Street. In 2019 we transformed from an over-55s’ welfare organisation into a vibrant, intergenerational hub. Our programme of over 100 weekly activities has grown year-on-year, and we’ve become the first organisation in Islington to achieve the trusted standard benchmark. Our already strong reputation was bolstered by our team’s incredible response to the challenges the Covid-19 pandemic, during which we never closed, but pivoted to preparing daily meals, running befriending calls and welfare checks, and welcoming the community back in as soon as it was safe to do so. Today, we are the beating heart of the community.
As our next CEO, you will:
- Shape Strategy & Impact: Lead development and delivery of our three-year rolling strategy, balancing service excellence with financial sustainability.
- Governance & Finance: Oversee robust governance frameworks and financial controls, stewarding our £20 million investment portfolio, trading income and grant programmes.
- Operational Leadership: Inspire and support a diverse team of 44 staff and hundreds of volunteers, embedding a culture of continuous improvement, inclusion and professionalism.
- Income Generation: Unlock new revenue streams - maximising room hire, cookery-school capacity, digital/social enterprises and corporate fundraising partnerships.
- Community & Partnerships: Forge and deepen relationships with local authorities, corporate sponsors, umbrella bodies and community groups.
- Brand & Profile: Be the public face of St Luke’s, elevating communications, safeguarding our reputation and ensuring our values of inclusion, equality, friendship, wellbeing and support shine through.
Who you are
- A seasoned senior leader (CEO or equivalent), ideally within the charity, membership or community-services sectors.
- Demonstrable expertise in strategic planning, P&L management and complex stakeholder governance.
- A persuasive communicator and boardroom presenter with the gravitas to inspire trustees, staff, volunteers and funders.
- Entrepreneurial and innovative, able to identify revenue opportunities and drive their delivery.
- Hands-on and approachable - a visible presence on the shop floor as well as the board table.
- (Desirable) Experience of trading-arm management, social-enterprise models or corporate fundraising.
Why St Luke’s?
- Lead a historic, 500-year-old charity with a modern purpose-built centre at its heart.
- Salary between £95,000 - £105,000 plus generous employee benefits (Benenden health membership, pension, season-ticket loans, cycle-to-work, subsidised lunches).
- Shape a charity whose community-shop, wellbeing hub, cookery school, employment hub, lunch club and gardening projects touch hundreds of lives each week.
- Join a committed Board, supportive Chair and passionate team determined to grow St Luke’s impact in challenging times.
Please see the attached Recruitment Brief with details on how to apply.
Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 10th November 2025
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
