Job Ref: 11876

Branch: Apex Temple Court Hotel

Location: Apex Temple Court Hotel, London

Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary and excellent company benefits and perks

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Hours per week: 40 Hours

Posted date: 10/03/2025

Closing date: 23/04/2025

Why Join Apex Hotels ?

You’ll receive a warm welcome into the Apex family on joining us as a Head Chef in Temple Court. We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. It is these values that support you to be yourself here at Apex Hotels. By bringing your own personality, passion, and ideas to the role, you will add a new dynamic to our innovative and supportive Kitchen Team. We believe it is our personality, style and friendliness that makes Apex Hotels.

Role Overview:

Reporting to the Hotel Operations Manager, you will assist in spearheading the culinary experience for our Amicable Societies Chambers FB Brand. You will assist in driving our approach in delivering a high-quality, life-style Restaurant Bar Food offering. Your main place of work will be Apex Temple Court Hotel, with Cluster responsibilities as directed by the Hotel Operations Manager, or Cluster General Manager.

You will be Results driven, and you will work closely with our supply chain partners, in house centralised services, and on property kitchen and front of house teams to continue developing, researching, and implementing appropriate efficiency and quality changes across all service outlets.
You will assist in ensuring Delivery of a sustainable and continuous profit growth across all outlets.

As part of the senior management team, this role will involve operational shift coverage across a seven-day week rota.

As Head Chef, you will, together with your Sous Chef ensure the smooth running of the Kitchen team, building and creating a high performing team, team culture and spirit, and a flair for life-style insta-grammable, storytelling dishes.

Main Responsibilities:

• Developing a multi skilled culinary team that delivers payroll flexibility with minimal tiers
• Collaborate with the Food and Beverage Manager to translate annual strategic business plans into considered departmental scorecard targets and associated activity plans
• Highly visible at key service periods focusing attention to detail on culinary delivery
• Full ownership of the full in stay and post stay culinary feedback, to address quality gaps
• Maximising sales and profit while ensuring customer satisfaction at all times.
• Coaching, training and supporting all Chefs and apprentices to provide consistently high standards, while continually looking to improve. You’ll have the talent to build, develop and motivate a team to deliver excellent levels of customer care.
• Assist in developing and coordinating a community / social calendar of events for team members
• Delivering regular staff communications on business trading, as directed by the Cluster General Manager
• Collaborate with the Food and Beverage Manager to translate annual strategic business plans into considered departmental scorecard targets and associated activity plans
• Daily / weekly payroll and food cost analysis in accordance with forecasted and materialised revenue levels to ensure optimal performance with overspend corrected within the same trading period, and as directed by Management.

About you:

We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in.

You will be friendly and approachable; you will go the extra mile for our guests; you will provide highly consistent good service and you will lead by example. To be successful in the role you will be a:

• Clear and influencing communicator with the ability to interact across all levels
• Possess a sales and profit driven mentality
• Identifies and manages best resources to achieve targets
• Ability to bring strategy ideas to the table and assist into turning them into practical plans
• Can assist in deploying time in motion exercises ensuring optimum cost engineering
• Assists in Building and developing a guest centric team culture
• Ability to Identify and manage best resources to assist in achieving targets
• Food Safety Management and Professional Cookery qualification at level 3 or above
• Coaching, supporting, challenging mentality that delivers operational results
• Creates an open environment

You’ll work with great people, enjoy your time at work, develop new friendships, networks, and skills, and of course you’ll also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:

• 35 days holiday
• Training and development from day one
• Employee events and celebrations
• Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
• Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
• Healthy meals to enjoy while you’re working.
• Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
• Financial Wellbeing App Wagestream, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
• £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.

Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……

• Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
• Involvement in our employee of the quarter and annual recognition schemes
• Long service recognition
• Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
• 50% discount in our restaurants
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
• Spa treatments and product discounts
• Critical Illness Life Assurance cover

We encourage you to bring your true self to work. We’ll provide great training and development opportunities, allowing you to flourish in a fulfilling career, reaching your dreams and aspirations. Our family can never be too big, there’s a place here for you. We have one ask - that you bring your personality, ideas, and spark. We’re an innovative, thriving business and we want you to be part of our exciting journey.

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About Apex Temple Court Hotel

Apex Temple Court Hotel is just seconds from Fleet Street. This hotel is perfect for visiting Theatreland, Covent Garden or London’s business districts in the square mile.

Tucked away in an intimate, contemporary space just beyond the reception of Apex Temple Court Hotel, Chambers Restaurant is perfect for any occasion. Chambers’ menu is focused yet diverse: Canape options set the table for traditional mains with a modern twist, as the culinary team covers the spectrum of European cuisine. Chambers’ unique settings include an artful main dining room with innovative lighting schemes and a charming outdoor dining space in the hotel’s courtyard, surrounded by historic Temple Court buildings.