Lead Chef

Job Role - Lead Chef

Location: In The Wilde Cafe, Sutton Bank Visitor Centre, YO7 2EH

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Salary: £32,000 - £34,000 per year (OTE £34,000 - 36,000 inclusive of tips)

Hours: Daytime hours only - no evening work

About the Role

In The Wilde is our home inside the North York Moors National Park, sat at the top of Sutton Bank - the view James Herriot called the finest in England. We're building a kitchen that tastes of where it is: Yorkshire growers, local producers, the seasons setting the menu.

We're looking for a chef to lead it and to own the food. You'll set the menu, build the dishes and run the kitchen, with the autonomy of a head chef and a group investing seriously behind you.

It's daytime only, which means real cooking and proper standards without the late finishes.

You'll be responsible for producing high-quality, seasonal dishes that showcase the best of our local suppliers, and delivering an exceptional, but simple food offer that enhances the visitor experience.

Day to day you'll:

Lead menu planning, recipe development and how every plate looks when it lands
Cook to a consistently high standard and hold the kitchen to it
Run a clean, efficient, organised kitchen - ordering, stock, prep
Be responsible for the hygiene standards in your kitchen
Build genuine relationships with our local suppliers and growers
Keep us watertight on food safety, hygiene and health & safety
Bring on the junior team - train them, stretch them, make them better
Work hand-in-glove with front of house so service feels effortless
Champion seasonality and sustainability, workingto reduce waste significantly

You'll fit right in if you're

An experienced chef who's run a real kitchen and can prove it
Genuinely creative about menus and build menus around what visitors actually want
Confident across food safety and kitchen best practice
Organised, calm and good with time when it's busy
A natural leader who can lift a small team rather than just direct it

What you get

£32,000 - £34,000 salary
A share of the venue tips
Daytime hours, no evenings - a hospitality job you can have a life around
A kitchen you genuinely get to lead and shape
High-quality, local, seasonal produce to work with
40% staff, friends & family discount across the group
Annual National Park parking pass
And the small matter of one of the best settings in the country to come to work

Sound like you?

Send your CV and a short note telling us what you'd put on the menu to .

_A driving licence is preferred - Sutton Bank is gloriously remote, which is rather the point._

_In The Wilde at Sutton Bank is part of The LH Group, an independent North Yorkshire hospitality group operating within the North York Moors National Park._

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: £33,000.00-£36,000.00 per year

Benefits:
On-site parking

Licence/Certification:
Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person