Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 35 hours per week on a rota basis including evening, weekend and bank holiday shifts.
Worker Type: On-Site
Salary: Starting Salary is £28,598 (Level one) rising to £31,022 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time) (Pay award pending)
Location: Various sites, predominantly based at Gedling Country Park.
We have an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce – and this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
Nottingham City Council is seeking a Commercial Catering Assistant Team Leader (Operations) to support the delivery of a high-quality, customer-focused catering service, based primarily at Café 1899, Gedling Country Park, with additional support to other commercial cafés and coffee shops when required.
Why work for Nottingham City Council?
Working for Nottingham City Council offers more than competitive pay, generous leave entitlement and access to a local government pension scheme. We are committed to creating an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where people are supported to do and be their very best.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to take pride in delivering consistently high food standards and excellent customer service in a unique park café setting. You will help lead and develop a team, influence the quality of food and service delivered every day, and play a visible role in shaping positive experiences for residents and visitors.
If you’re passionate about quality, people and making a difference through public-facing services, we want to hear from you.
You can read more about the benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council HERE
About the Role
Reporting to the Commercial Catering Team Leader, you will play a key hands-on role in the day-to-day supervision of Café 1899. Your focus will be on maintaining excellent food quality, presentation and service standards, while ensuring customers receive a welcoming, professional and safe experience.
You will provide oversight of food preparation and service, supporting and training staff to meet high standards and leading by example in both food quality and customer care. Through effective supervision, coaching and monitoring, you will help embed a strong culture of quality, consistency and pride across the team.
The role includes responsibility for supporting menu delivery, stock control, portion management and cost control, helping to ensure value for money and strong commercial performance. You will also ensure full compliance with food safety, HACCP and health & safety requirements, keeping the café audit-ready at all times.
About You
You will have:
- Experience as a Catering Supervisor, Café Manager, Chef or in a similar hospitality role
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate, support and develop others
- A genuine passion for delivering high-quality food and excellent customer service
- Knowledge of food safety, HACCP, health & safety and operational compliance
- Experience of menu costing, portion control, stock management and waste reduction
- Confidence working in a fast-paced, customer-focused catering environment
- You will be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, take pride in high standards, and understand the importance of delivering quality public services that benefit Nottingham’s communities.
You can find the job description for this post here.
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Nottingham Catering by telephone on 0115 8765432 or by email at servicestoschools@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Closing Date: 12th May 2026
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.
Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working – to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
