Location: HMP Brixton
Salary: £30,000
Contract: Full-time (39 hours per week)
Hours: Rotating shift pattern between 8am-5pm
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Catering / Chef Supervisor to oversee catering operations within HMP Brixton, ensuring the safe, compliant, and high-quality delivery of food services.
This role is key to maintaining catering standards while supporting and supervising a prisoner workforce. You will play an important part in delivering training, promoting rehabilitation through skills development, and ensuring all catering services meet operational, safety, and quality requirements.
- Work closely with prisoners, supporting and guiding them in developing basic cooking skills and food preparation techniques.
- Provide a safe, structured, and supportive learning environment that encourages engagement and rehabilitation.
- Demonstrate best practice in food hygiene and safe kitchen working to help prisoners build transferable skills.
- Ensure all catering activities are carried out in line with Health & Safety, food hygiene, and prison regulations.
- Assist in delivering basic catering training aligned to NVQ Level 1 standards.
- Level 1 Food Hygiene Certificate (or willingness to obtain)
- Experience working in a catering or kitchen environment
- Ability to pass Prison Service vetting
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage positively with individuals from different backgrounds
- Patient, supportive, and encouraging approach to teaching new skills
- Good understanding of basic food hygiene and kitchen safety practices
- Ability to work as part of a team within a structured environment
- Reliable, organised, and proactive mindset
- Commitment to supporting rehabilitation and helping others develop practical life skills
- Experience in a supervisory or training role.
- Exposure to working within a secure or custodial environment.
- Experience delivering accredited training or vocational qualifications.
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact through skills development and rehabilitation.
- A stable and structured working environment with clear processes and standards.
- Pension and life insurance benefits.
- A supportive culture focused on development and continuous improvement.
