Salary: £26,403 - £27,254
Location: Better Together Café Council House
Hours: 37 hours per week
Core working hours are 7:30 – 15:30 Monday – Thursday and 7:30 – 15:00 Friday.
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Tuesday 18th August 2026
Are you a passionate catering professional who thrives in a fast-paced kitchen and loves helping others develop? We’re looking for one full time or two part-time Catering Supervisors to lead the day-to-day operation of our Better Together Teaching Café—a unique place where good food and high quality learning come together.
This isn’t just another catering role. You’ll be at the heart of a live training environment, delivering excellent food and customer service while supporting learners as they develop real-world skills for their future careers.
Join us at the Better Together Teaching Café and help us serve great food while building brighter futures
The Opportunity
In the role of Better Together Café Catering Supervisor , here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
You’ll take the lead in running a busy café operation, ensuring everything from breakfast service to event catering runs smoothly and professionally.
Lead the café floor and kitchen – delivering consistently high standards of food, service and customer experience
Prepare, cook and serve fresh, high-quality dishes, including independent service during quieter periods
Manage stock and costs – ordering, rotation, waste control and accurate record-keeping
Keep standards high – maintaining food hygiene, safety compliance and health & safety procedures
Handle daily finances – ensuring secure and accurate cash handling
Work with tutors to coordinate café service alongside learning activities
A key part of this role is helping others succeed. You’ll:
Guide and support learners, tutors and young people on work placements in a real working kitchen
Support learners’ understanding of food prep, safety, customer service and workplace behaviour
Act as a positive role model, promoting teamwork, inclusion and professionalism
About You
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...
- Experience in a supervisory catering or café role
- Strong knowledge of food safety, hygiene and kitchen operations
- Confidence to work independently and leading a small team
- Excellent organisation, communication and customer service skills
- A genuine interest in supporting learners and developing others
- An understanding of the barriers facing adults with additional needs to work in this vocational area
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities.Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
- Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
- Modern office environment (depending on your job location)
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on Tuesday 18th August 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held: at the Council House (dates TBC).
If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to
[email protected]. Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to
[email protected], however this is optional and will not affect your application.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Before you complete your application, please read our guidance on filling in your application form.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at
[email protected]https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
