Compen:
Up to £36,654.00 per year + shared tronc.
4 days on 3 days off, 48 hour contract.
Staff housing available.
Job Description:
The Farmers Arms in Woolsery, North Devon is seeking a chef to join our team. We are a refurbished, MICHELIN guide listed pub who won 2025 Visit England Pub of the Year. We are looking for an experienced chef who will manage a station, including mise en place and lunch/dinner service.
Check us out at www.woolsery.com
Our food ethos is local, foraged, fresh and sustainable. Everything made in house or supplied by quality vendors who help to support our community. We have our own 150 acre farm Birch Farm to supply fresh produce and meat as well. We raise our own rare heritage breed sheep, pigs, ducks and chickens and have 16 acres dedicated to orchards, food forests and veg growing.
The menu will change regularly, depending on what is in season and fresh locally. The style of service is casual and welcoming and the food centres around a British flavour profile and pub classics done to a high, and creative, standard. We also run a five-course Birch Farm Tasting Menu, alongside our Pub menu, which changes seasonally and focuses on the farm.
We have a hotel, which is One MICHELIN Key rated, J Andrew Shop and Woolsery Fish & Chips as well, which are all part of The Collective at Woolsery.
Job Duties:
- Running of service and mise en place for your section
- Maintaining the very highest standards of food production, hygiene, cleanliness and following Health & Safety procedures.
- Work well in a team environment with the customers experience always being paramount
- Have a good attitude, be open minded to new techniques, a different perspective and a willingness to learn in order to create something special
- Cross training to all stations
- Ability to work full time, flexible hours. We offer a 48 hour per week contract, working 4 days on and 3 days off.
- Passionate cook with a desire to produce the best quality food possible
- Ambitious and driven to help create an exceptional culinary destination
Skill Requirements:
- Excellent communication skills; verbal and written
- Must be able to follow checklists, wastage sheets and training documents
- Position offer based on previous experience and execution during a trial shift
Employment Package:
- £32,797 - 36,654, depending on skill and experience, salary for 48 hour contract.
- Weekly rotas are 4 days on, 3 days off.
- 28 days holiday
- Shared tips across front and back of house
- Staff housing available