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Senior Chef

Wasted Kitchen
Faversham, Kent

Posted: 25 Apr 2025

Deadline: 7 May 2025

Compensation: £30,000- £35,000 per year

Paid Full-time Fixed term / contract

Job description

We’re looking for a skilled, enthusiastic Senior Chef to work with our Kitchen Manager and take the lead on all things production — fermenting, pickling, batch cooking freezer meals, and prepping vibrant salads. All from scratch with seasonal and surplus ingredients. This is a hands-on role with plenty of variety, flexibility, and the chance to make a real impact. Initially maternity cover with scope to build the role.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading Production – Prep and batch cooking of salads, meals, pickles, and ferments.
• Creative Cooking – Adapting to what’s in season or surplus and making it shine.
• Catering Support – Helping prepare and present food for events and wholesale partners.
• Kitchen Ops – Managing stock, food storage, and keeping everything running smoothly.
• Maintaining Standards – Ensuring high levels of hygiene, food safety, and kitchen organisation.
• Collaborating – Working closely with our Kitchen Manager and Founder to hit production and value goals and have fun doing it.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a professional kitchen – ideally in a senior or lead role.
• Love of whole foods, seasonal cooking, and sustainable practices.
• Confident with batch cooking, prep systems, and managing production.
• Flexible and creative – able to cook inventively with what’s available.
• Physically fit – this is a hands-on role involving some lifting and movement.
• Organised and proactive – good at keeping systems in place.
• Food hygiene knowledge (certification is good!).

Why Work With Us?

• Be part of a mission-driven, multi-award-winning food business.
• Weekday hours and flexibility to fit around your life.
• Positive, collaborative kitchen environment.
• Loads of opportunity for creativity, input and growth.

You’ll be making food that genuinely makes a difference

Application information

Please apply by email to Katy@wastedkitchen.co.uk

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