Job Description

As an Assistant Chef, you'll provide delicious and nutritious meals for our tenants. You'll be sourcing fresh food, working to a budget, supporting to lead the team alongside the Chef Manager and adding some flavour to our tenants' lives! Mealtimes are important, so we are looking for someone who can create exciting menus and recipes; after all, some of the happiest memories are made around the table. Some of our tenants may have cultural or dietary requirements, we are looking for someone who can consider their needs, likes and dislikes to ensure that they look forward to and enjoy their mealtimes.

Assistant Chef

13.32 per hour

30 hours per week - Days

Plas Bryn, Pentrebane Road, Fairwater, Cardiff, CF5 3RW

The opportunity:

As an Assistant Chef, you'll provide delicious and nutritious meals for our tenants. You'll be sourcing fresh food, working to a budget, supporting to lead the team alongside the Chef Manager and adding some flavour to our tenants' lives! Mealtimes are important, so we are looking for someone who can create exciting menus and recipes; after all, some of the happiest memories are made around the table. Some of our tenants may have cultural or dietary requirements, we are looking for someone who can consider their needs, likes and dislikes to ensure that they look forward to and enjoy their mealtimes.

What we need from you:

Communication skills - you'll be working closely with the Chef and Service managers, a team of food service assistants and our tenants; they love to chat, so we need you to be approachable and friendly too. You'll need some qualifications for this role, these includes NVQ Level 2 in Food Preparation/ Catering and Food Hygiene Level 2. We offer lots of training and support, we even have a training team who are dedicated to provide you with all the tools you need to succeed. Organisational skills - you will be chopping, dicing, slicing, mixing and marinating but you will also need to keep on top of the paperwork. You'll support with menu plans, stock control, complete HACCP documents, adhere to Food Hygiene regulations and work to the budget, so we need someone who can cross the T's and dot the I's, as well as serving up delicious pies.

What we will offer in return:

Free Uniform Free DBS Check Excellent work life balance Wellbeing support Dedicated learning and development team 5.6 weeks annual leave each year (pro rata)

What's it like to work at Linc?

Linc are passionate, ambitious and respectful. We take pride in everything we do; we are creating a happier, healthier Wales.


We are creating an environment for people to flourish; we offer training, support, and career opportunities.


We offer great work life balance, competitive salaries, excellent benefits, wellbeing support and much more!


Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, so in one word - working at Linc is rewarding.

What's next?

The advert will close at 23:45 on Wednesday 15th October 2025 . We reserve the right to close the advert before this date once we are in receipt of sufficient applications.

Before you go...

In trying to make our workforce more diverse, we adopt a Positive Action Rule to people from ethnic minority groups. This means that if you meet the selection criteria in the job advert and are from an ethnic minority community, you will be offered an interview, if you give consent for this rule to be applied to your application.