Assistant Kitchen Manager

The Role Outline: Your Shift at a Glance

Your focus is to assist and support the Kitchen Manager in delivering our food and beverage strategy, ensuring every plate hits the pass with consistent quality. You will build a culture of cleanliness and food safety while coordinating the kitchen to create a professional, hygienic, and cost-effective working environment. From controlling portion sizes to supervising trainee chefs, this is a hands-on role where you drive standards and keep the service flowing smoothly.

Why Village?

At Village, we do hospitality a little differently. We are all about personality, genuine connections, and creating great experiences for our guests and each other. That is why we back our teams to take ownership, learn new skills, and grow their careers.

Previous experience is great, but your attitude and energy matter much more to us. If you are a grafter who thrives in a busy kitchen, loves working with people, and enjoys being part of a tight-knit brigade, we will give you all the support, training, and opportunities you need. Because it really does take a Village.

How The Village Thrives

We live our culture through four simple commitments:

• We Can & We Do: We show up to make a genuine difference and do fantastic work everyday, with purpose. We drive quality, deliver consistent food, and smash our budgeted GP percentage and food revenue targets.
• We Will: Treat each other with respect and dignity. No ego, no drama. We try our best, assist other chefs on their section when required, and establish clear lines of communication with the Front of House teams.
• We Care: We care about our impact on guests, the community, and each other. We create an engaged team through reward, recognition, and daily briefing sessions that foster a true passion for food.

Your Shift: What You’ll Actually Be Doing

As Our Assistant Kitchen Manager, You Are The Engine Of The Kitchen Alongside The Kitchen Manager. We Trust You To Handle

• Smooth Service: Delivering a smooth flow of work, checking portion sizes, temperatures, and the overall appearance of every dish before it goes out.
• Inspirational Leadership: Supervising and coaching trainee chefs, particularly when they are using potentially dangerous equipment, and running daily briefings in the absence of the Kitchen Manager.
• Immaculate Standards: Adhering strictly to food hygiene regulations, EHO directives, and our Food Safety Management System to maintain a completely safe environment.
• Commercial Control: Assisting the Kitchen Manager with wage costs, keeping stock at correct par levels, and ensuring all deliveries are checked and temperatures are recorded.
• Product Passion: Testing the team on menu knowledge, conducting regular tastings, and ensuring food is cooked and served exactly to company specification.

How We Succeed Together

We do not micromanage. We believe in Ownership & Integrity, giving you the autonomy to manage stock control procedures and role model high-performance behaviours on the line.

We

Empower & Elevate our people. If you want

Room to Grow, we share our experience to embed a strong development culture where training is a consistently high priority. We constantly

Innovate & Progress so we can

Inspire Excellence and achieve our targeted Review Pro scores together.

The Perks: What’s In It For You?

• Gym Membership: 2 x complimentary gym memberships at your home hotel.
• Hotel Stays: Hotel rooms from £20 across 34 hotels.
• Food & Drink: 50% off food and drink for you and up to 5 guests, plus 75% off Sunday dinner for up to 6 people.
• Friends & Family: 2 friends or family members get 25% off F&B, even when you are not there.
• Retail & Lifestyle: Hundreds of brand discounts via the Village app.
• Support: 24/7 Mental Health support via our Employee Assistance Programme.

Think You’ve Got the Right Energy?

We are not looking for perfect CVs, we are looking for great leaders. If you are a high-performing chef ready to step up, take ownership of a busy kitchen, and inspire a brigade of chefs, we want to hear from you.

Bring your personality, your drive, and your ambition. Hit apply, tell us why you love the kitchen environment, and let's see if we are a match.

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