Start Date: asap 2026 | Position: Permanent | Schedule: 5 days per week, 8-9 hour days on a rota - salary £50-60k, depending on experience.
Excellent opportunity for a keen cook to learn more, work under an existing chef team and gain more experience in a busy private home, working in a team. This is an excellent job for someone looking to get a foot in the door in a prestigious private home.
We are hiring a Private COOK to support an UHNW household in Chelsea on a permanent basis. This role is ideally suited to a COOK wanting to learn more but with a health-focus, refined presentation, and a modern, elegant cooking style. The successful candidate will be confident creating beautifully balanced, nourishing dishes with clean flavours, subtlety, and creativity, while operating with the highest levels of discretion and professionalism in a private household setting. They must be happy to learn and take instruction from the head chef and cook in line with the family requirements.
With a health-conscious approach, the Cook will be responsible (with the team) for preparing daily Bfast, lunches, fresh breads, cakes, snacks and dinners for the principals (done on a shift rota) .. The principals are lovely to work for and are looking for nutritious and delicious meals, made from fresh, seasonal and organic ingredients that have been sourced locally on a daily basis.
Working 5 days per week, the core working hours will be variable and on a rota but will include working weekends (not every weekend but please expect to be available at weekends when it’s on the rota, and please do not apply if you are not prepared to work at weekends, as this is a job where you may need to work a weekend). The COOK should be eager to learn and work under the head chef, Sometimes they will work independently if it’s his day off and the cook will also need to assist with kitchen management, including menu planning, grocery shopping, and stocking the kitchen.
DUTIES TO INCLUDE
• Plan and prepare daily meals in line with the principals’ preferred style: organic, fresh, seasonal, nutritious alongside head chef
• Provide refined family-style meals, and occasional more formal dinner service when they are entertaining.
• Maintain a spotless, organised kitchen at all times, including food storage, cleanliness, and stock rotation.
• Undertake food shopping and ingredient sourcing to a high standard, selecting premium produce from trusted suppliers. • Adapt menus based on preferences , and daily requirements.
• Ensure all meals are delivered punctually and with consistency while maintaining complete confidentiality and discretion.
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
• willingness to learn, happy to be flexible with hours and working days
• some possible travel
• knowledge of healthy, nutritious cooking and dietary balance helpful
• Organised, self-motivated, and able to assist with all aspects of kitchen operations.
• Flexible, discreet, and professional in both attitude and presentation.
• Strict on hygiene procedures.
• Willingness to be adaptable to occasional schedule changes.
Fluent in English.
• Right to live and work in the UK.
• Located within a commutable distance from Chelsea.
• Excellent checkable references.
If you are interested in this role, please e mail ella@sugarellacooks.co.uk with your CV, available start date, food photos and any sample menus.