Job Ref: MAY1513
Branch: The Connaught
Location: The Connaught, London (West)
Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary, Tronc and Benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Shift pattern: As required
Hours per week: 48
Posted date: 13/08/2025
Closing date: 26/09/2025
We are looking for a talented and passionate full-time Pastry Sous Chef to join The Connaught Hélène Darroze Pastry Kitchen team at the award-winning 5-Star Deluxe Connaught Hotel.
To arrive at The Connaught is to belong. Discover a hotel of warm hospitality and effortless style, a beacon of Mayfair Village for over two-hundred years; home to a community united by the allure of the exceptional. Here, heritage and heart unite, discretion is our promise, and the pleasure to please is a way of life.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

As Pastry Sous Chef you will be an excellent team player with a hands-on and organised approach to your role, passionate about your team and working in a leading hotel operation. You must be able to develop your team’s creative style, while building a stimulating and exciting environment within the department. With this in mind, you will have previous management experience at a similar level and have proven experience within a three-star Michelin restaurant managing the Pastry Kitchen.

As Pastry Sous Chef you will work closely with Hélène Darroze and Executive Pastry Chef to lead the pastry kitchen brigade and to continue to develop the creativity of Hélène Darroze at The Connaught. You will support the Executive Pastry Chef with the daily management of all aspects of the kitchen. Working with the freshest seasonal produce and ingredients and within a highly talented brigade, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, consistency and delivery of all menus and the running of the pastry kitchen.