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Position: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Annual Salary: £43,000 - £45,000 per annum, depending on experience
Benefits:
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Head Chef to join one of the UK's leading conference venue and hotel brands.
In this key role, you will lead the culinary operations at Burleigh Court Hotel and Holywell Park Conference Centre ensuring exceptional food quality, consistency, and guest satisfaction across all dining and event experiences.
You will be responsible for leading and developing the kitchen team, overseeing menu creation, managing costs, maintaining the highest standards of food safety and health and safety compliance, and contributing to the commercial success of the business.
What You'll Do
Key responsibilities will be to:
About You
We are looking for an experienced and creative Head Chef with exceptional culinary expertise. You will have a proven experience of successfully leading and developing high-performing kitchen teams, ideally within a 4-star full-service hotel or conference venue.
Together with significant experience managing, motivating and developing a large kitchen team, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a strong understanding of food cost control and kitchen financials.
You will be passionate about delivering high quality food and maintaining consistently high standards across all areas of the kitchen, ensuring exceptional quality, presentation and service. Experience in banqueting and events catering would be highly desirable.
About Us:
Based at Loughborough University Campus, our brand portfolio includes:
Every year we host over 92,000 delegates from around the world; we service over 90,000 bedrooms; we serve over 200,000 meals; we take over £30 million in enquiries.
With excellent customer service at the core of our offer, we are recognised as a leading academic venue, winning multiple awards and accreditations in customer service, business tourism and people management. We achieve this by putting our guests at the heart of everything we do.
We take workplace engagement seriously and are proud to have been awarded the Best Companies accreditation as very good to work for 2025.
Simply put, we’re trying to make Imago Venues a place where people love to be. We care about our people and we’re kind to each other. We’re ambitious, ethical, sustainable and, most importantly, we’re accountable.
If you're an ambitious and passionate Head Chef with a proven ability to deliver outstanding guest experiences, develop high-performing teams, and maintain strong operational partnerships, we'd love to hear from you.
To apply for the position, log onto the Imago website
To find out more about the role click here
Closing date: 3rd August 2026
Imago Venues are an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident Committed Employer