Catering Supervisor
| Posting date: | 12 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £13.45 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 April 2026 |
| Location: | DE22 3NE |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | ISS Facilities Services |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 152717 |
Summary
Catering Supervisor
Contract: Healthcare
Location: Derby, DE22 3NE
Hours of work: 37.5
Working Pattern: 5 out of 7 days - on a rota basis
Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £13.45
Do you want to join a fantastic catering team? Are you passionate about creating great food, leading others, and delivering the very best service to patients?
As a Catering Supervisor with ISS UK, you will be at the heart of ward catering operations, reporting to the Head of Patient Catering - Wards.
This is a hands-on supervisory role where you will support the preparation and service of high-quality meals, ensuring full compliance with all patient ward catering standards.
You will lead and supervise a team of up to 45 ward hostesses per sheet, guiding them to deliver an efficient, professional, and positive catering experience across all wards.
The Role
Supervise and support a motivated, passionate catering team, acting as a hands-on working supervisor.
Ensure compliance with all standards for patient ward catering, including hygiene, safety, and service protocols.
Deliver outstanding customer care, ensuring patients and ward staff receive a positive dining experience.
Maintain excellent levels of cleanliness and hygiene across all catering areas.
Uphold Health & Safety standards, ensuring a safe and secure working environment for staff and patients.
Ensure meals are delivered promptly, accurately, and in line with ward schedules.
Represent the catering and operations teams with a strong focus on client satisfaction.
Carry out weekly stock takes and support stock control procedures, ensuring efficient use of resources.
About You
Enthusiastic, proactive, and passionate about food, service, and leading a team.
Previous catering experience is preferred, ideally with supervisory responsibility in a ward or healthcare environment.
Strong understanding of food hygiene principles, safe kitchen practices, and patient catering requirements.
Confident in following procedures while also making decisions that benefit patients and the service.
Customer-focused, always putting the patient and ward experience first.
A determined team player and leader, who motivates and guides others by example.
Excellent communication, organisation, and time management skills, capable of managing a large team efficiently.
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
Contract: Healthcare
Location: Derby, DE22 3NE
Hours of work: 37.5
Working Pattern: 5 out of 7 days - on a rota basis
Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £13.45
Do you want to join a fantastic catering team? Are you passionate about creating great food, leading others, and delivering the very best service to patients?
As a Catering Supervisor with ISS UK, you will be at the heart of ward catering operations, reporting to the Head of Patient Catering - Wards.
This is a hands-on supervisory role where you will support the preparation and service of high-quality meals, ensuring full compliance with all patient ward catering standards.
You will lead and supervise a team of up to 45 ward hostesses per sheet, guiding them to deliver an efficient, professional, and positive catering experience across all wards.
The Role
Supervise and support a motivated, passionate catering team, acting as a hands-on working supervisor.
Ensure compliance with all standards for patient ward catering, including hygiene, safety, and service protocols.
Deliver outstanding customer care, ensuring patients and ward staff receive a positive dining experience.
Maintain excellent levels of cleanliness and hygiene across all catering areas.
Uphold Health & Safety standards, ensuring a safe and secure working environment for staff and patients.
Ensure meals are delivered promptly, accurately, and in line with ward schedules.
Represent the catering and operations teams with a strong focus on client satisfaction.
Carry out weekly stock takes and support stock control procedures, ensuring efficient use of resources.
About You
Enthusiastic, proactive, and passionate about food, service, and leading a team.
Previous catering experience is preferred, ideally with supervisory responsibility in a ward or healthcare environment.
Strong understanding of food hygiene principles, safe kitchen practices, and patient catering requirements.
Confident in following procedures while also making decisions that benefit patients and the service.
Customer-focused, always putting the patient and ward experience first.
A determined team player and leader, who motivates and guides others by example.
Excellent communication, organisation, and time management skills, capable of managing a large team efficiently.
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.