Sous Chef – Kitchen Lead (Monday to Friday)
On-site role
Salary: £35,000
40 hours per week | Daytime hours only
The Role:
We’re looking for a confident Sous Chef to take the lead in a well-established, professional kitchen environment. This is a fantastic opportunity to run a small, organised kitchen with a loyal and experienced team.
You’ll be responsible for overseeing daily kitchen operations, delivering a consistent breakfast and lunch service, and maintaining high standards across food quality, hygiene, and organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Running the day-to-day kitchen operation
Preparing and serving breakfast and lunch
Delivering a simple, structured lunch offer (3 choices daily – meat, vegetarian, and a daily special)
Cooking for approximately 50–60 covers per day
Managing and supporting a small team including a Kitchen Porter and front of house support
Working closely with the on-site manager to ensure smooth service
Maintaining food safety, cleanliness, and stock control
The Offer:
Monday to Friday working pattern
Working hours between 6:30am – 3:00pm or 7:00am – 3:30pm
40-hour working week
Rare overtime requirements
Stable and supportive team (most staff have been on-site 3–7 years)
A calm, structured kitchen environment with a focus on quality over volume
About You:
Experience as a Sous Chef or strong Chef de Partie ready to step up
Confident running a kitchen independently
Organised, reliable, and consistent in delivery
Comfortable working in a smaller, steady-paced environment
Strong understanding of food safety and kitchen management
Mint People: Flexible Hospitality Staffing That Just Works.
At Mint People, we provide fully trained, highly presentable, and dependable staff to the hospitality, leisure, and events industries. Whether it’s one bartender for a last-minute shift or 150 staff for a stadium event, we’re trusted by some of the UK’s best hotels, venues, and operators to deliver quality people – fast.
With over 10 years’ experience, we’ve become known as one of the most reliable and forward-thinking staffing partners in the North – and beyond. From front-of-house professionals to kitchen porters, housekeepers to event managers, our people are trained in-house through our 5-star onboarding and briefing programme to ensure they’re ready to hit the ground running.
Our clients come back year after year because we understand how unpredictable hospitality can be – and we’re built to flex with it. We’re proud to work with national hotel groups, global event brands, leading caterers and independent operators, offering:
• Fast, flexible staffing solutions – no long contracts or tie-ins
• Fully trained, presentable and prepared people
• Front and back of house cover – including chefs, kitchen teams, bar staff, waiters, housekeepers and more
• Festival and stadium-scale team deployment
• National reach with local knowledge
• On-site support and account management
Our quality promise? We only send people we’d trust to represent our own brand – because they are our brand.
If you need staffing support that’s consistent, stress-free and built around you – you’re in the right place.
Mint People – We've got you covered.
