Company: Andrew Brownsword hotels
Location: Torquay
Job Description:Location: The Imperial Torquay is a magnificent 19th Century 152-bedroom Victorian four-star hotel, and offers breath taking sea views, plus a host of leisure facilities, making it fun and picturesque location to work in.Just a short walk from the main train station and town centre, the hotel is really accessible for our employees. Some staff car parking is available on site, as is free use of all the hotel’s leisure facilities, including our gym and swimming pools.Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to +44 7782 822774 to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)
Come and join our team as a SousChef and let your passion and personality shine
Our culture is important to us, andwe encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards eachother and our guests.
As a Sous Chef, you will beworking alongside the Head Chef to run a busy kitchen. You will be creatingexciting and delicious dishes to be served to guests.
This role would suit someone whohas worked in a similar environment previously.
Check out some of the key pointsabout the role:
As a skilled chef, you’ll get to really putthose knife skills to the test, cooking with the finest of ingredients.We want to keep everyone safe, so you’llneed to keep up to date with the latest allergen training.Being one team, everyone in the kitchen isresponsible for keeping it clean.Nobody wants out of date food, so labellingyour food is important.As an experienced chef, we encourage you toshare your knowledge with new, budding Junior Sous, CDP’s, KP’s and Commiscoming into the industry.You’ll be responsible for managing thekitchen in the absence of the Head Chef.Along with the Head Chef, you’ll write theallergen matrix, to ensure that all our guests are kept safe.We can’t run out of food, so it’s importantto keep on top of ordering, via Procure Wizard.Work/life, or as it should be calledlife/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair withour rotas. We just ask that you can beflexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.
To say thank you, we havemany perks:
Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop – our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us – our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you. …
Posted: March 14th, 2026
