Floor Manager

Independent. Creative. Trusted.

Terre à Terre is a 100-cover, independently owned restaurant with a long-standing reputation for leading the way in vegetarian and vegan cooking. Known across the UK for our imaginative, high-quality dishes, we offer a dynamic kitchen environment that values consistency, creativity, and progression.

We’re hiring a Junior Sous Chef who’s ambitious, calm under pressure and genuinely loves developing people and standards. You’ll be an excellent all-rounder—creative, organised, and trusted to lead from the front.

Coming from outside vegetarian/vegan kitchens is absolutely fine—what matters most is that you’ve trained in quality-led, high-standard restaurants and you care about great ingredients, confident technique, flavour, seasonality and sustainability.

If you’re a Senior Chef de Partie ready for the next step, we’re open to appointing at CDP level with a clear development plan into Junior Sous responsibilities.

The Role

Reporting to the senior kitchen team and working closely with the owners, this is a hands-on, high-impact role at the heart of service. You’ll help run a fast-paced, supportive kitchen—driving consistency, pace and quality, supporting menu execution, and mentoring the team. You’ll also play a key part in planning and organisation (prep, rota support, stock and ordering), ensuring every service is smooth, calm and on standard.

Key Responsibilities
- Deliver consistent, well-executed dishes to recipe, quality and presentation standards
- Own your section: prep planning, mise en place, service set-up and close-down
- Lead and support junior chefs during prep and service; set the pace, tone and standard
- Maintain excellent hygiene, food safety, labelling and kitchen organisation
- Support prep lists and service planning to keep the kitchen efficient and calm
- Monitor timing, quality control and communication across the pass and sections
- Assist with stock control, ordering and equipment care (greater responsibility at Junior Sous level)
- Contribute ideas for fresh, seasonal dishes and continuous menu development

What We’re Looking For
- Junior Sous: sustained experience at Junior Sous level (1+ year preferred/required). Ambitious Step-up Senior CDP: strong section leadership in a similar fresh-food kitchen, ready to take on stock, planning and wider team responsibility
- An excellent all-rounder with strong cooking skills across sections, and the ability to follow precise recipes and checklists
- Quality experience in a busy, fresh-food, high-standard kitchen (strong systems, consistency and pace)
- Creative flair, attention to detail, and pride in consistency, timing, and standards
- Ambitious, proactive, and hungry to learn — someone who takes ownership and drives improvement day to day
- Confident leadership: able to manage, inspire and develop others, and raise standards through example
- Excellent communication, organisation, and ability to perform under pressure
- Open to learning refined vegetarian/vegan cooking (training provided; experience welcome but not essential)
- A strong all-rounder who’s happy to turn your hand to anything, get stuck in, and stay flexible to meet the needs of the kitchen

Job Type, Pay & Package
Full-time, permanent. Competitive salary & share of tronc depending on level and experience
- Company pension
- Discounted or free staff meals / meals on duty
- Staff/employee discounts (food & beverage)
- Uniform provided
- Internal and external training + genuine career development
- Company events

Schedule & Location
Based in Brighton (BN1 1HQ), in person. Weekend availability required; overtime available.
Typically 30-48 hours Expect 2 days off per week (often 2–3 days off depending on rota).

Why Join Terre à Terre
- Work in a well-established, respected independent restaurant with a genuinely creative menu
- Learn refined vegetarian/vegan cooking and how to cook to a wide range of dietary requirements (training provided)
- Strong standards,…