Relief Head Chef

Job Description

The role:

Global Talent 2020 are proudly working with our exciting, rapidly growing Restaurant and bar clients across Scotland, that are looking for a Relief Head Chef. The Relief Head Chef is to be part of a regional operational kitchen brigade, that will go into venues on the East coast of Scotland and support as required across our clients expanding, quality, casual dining Kitchen operations. You will also be helping with new openings, implementation of seasonal menu launches, and developing teams in this fast-growing, award-winning business.

The person:

Our ambitious client at Global Talent 2020, is looking for a real leader in the kitchen, someone who will harness the talent of the settled brigade. Utilise the fantastic kitchen facilities to their advantage, to continually provide popular food experiences for its customers.

The ideal Relief Head Chef candidate must have had prior experience of producing fresh quality food, to a minimum 1 rosette culinary level standard, and had experience in volume restaurants in the high street space. You must be highly approachable with your persona, as you will be interacting with other senior department culinary heads, regional operational management, and with all levels of the business’s diverse teams.

Our client requires an ideal Relief Head Chef, that is keen to train, coach and mentor colleagues, support and evolve food services, deliver consistency of food concepts, while building on the reputation of the business as an Employer of choice.

As the Relief Head Chef, you must be proven to be flexible, and highly adaptive in all your approaches to your team, culinary skills, and also with delivery of services developed with the company Regional Operations Chef for the East.

The Relief Head Chef must also be someone who not only has great presentation skills, but someone that also is an effective manager of the kitchen environment, of Health, Food safety, COSHH, RIDDOR, recruitment, training, and possesses strong cost & budgetary control skill sets of their Kitchen environment.

The benefits:

You will be working with a multi-award-winning business, delivering fresh food creations to high standards through your teams. Working with a talented brigade of diverse chefs, utilising the best local fresh produce. Excellent ongoing projects to be involved with, fantastic career path growth opportunities, and an excellent remuneration package, with class-leading benefits, outstanding tronc, and mileage available for the right candidate.

Interested? Apply today, and let’s talk…..

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Job Overview

Job Title
Relief Head Chef
Role Type
Full Time
Location
South Queensferry
Job Reference
LAB 041
Date Job Posted
15/08/2025
Closing Date
30/09/2025
Package
Salary £40k – plus tronc, excellent company benefits and Mileage.

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