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Job Title:
Head Chef Designate
Salary:
Up to £38,000 per year plus up to £5000+ per year with Tip Jar and an UNCAPPED bonus!
Location:
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Postcode:
LS16 7PH
Job reference:
JD1303675LeeHCD

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Start an exciting new chapter in your hospitality career at Hickory's Smokehouse - We are thrilled to have been recently crowned the ‘Best Pub Employer’ for 2025 at The Publican Awards!

Join us as a Head Chef Designate and we can offer you a generous package of up to £43,000 per year including Tip Jar!

We’re looking for a Head Chef Designate to lead our passionate brigade of BBQ enthusiasts, you will be responsible for running our bespoke kitchen, and delivering the very best food that our Smokehouse can offer. You will be working with and leading the team to deliver authentic fresh food-based BBQ menu in one of the busiest restaurants in town.

As the fastest growing, Southern style Smokehouse group in the UK with an award-winning Hickory’s Training Academy, we can offer you amazing opportunities as we expand. And, we have a company culture that really cares & embraces work-life – balance.

We are really going places – and we want to take you with us.

Thank You’s & Benefits:

A generous Head Chef Designate package of up to £43,000 per year including Tip Jar plus uncapped bonus!
The chance to work in one of our £250k bespoke built kitchens, with authentic smokers imported all the way from USA
Excellent training & progression opportunities – through our award-winning Hickory’s Training Academy
Birthday reward meal on us for you & your friends - every year
Free smokin’ BBQ on shift – team food & drinks menu
Christmas Day off work - every year
Moments that matter – paid occasion days off (Wedding day, kid’s first day at school, moving into first home & more)
Team Player card – 25% discount for you & 5 friends in all Hickory’s (rising to 50% for loyal service)
Road trips to the Southern States, Europe & UK and stacks of enrichment opportunities
Wellbeing support & 24-hour access to our wellness programme, plus a Wellbeing Champion in each restaurant to support you
Our pledge to a work-life balance – monitoring & managing through our Red Zone
A chance to ‘give a bit back’ with fundraising activities for Cash For Kids
Up to £500 for you – through the refer a friend scheme

If that sounds good or does it leave you wanting to find out more? Click ‘apply’ now and you could be our next Head Chef Designate.

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