At a Glance
- Tasks: Prepare and serve delicious, nutritious meals for students at Park Primary School.
- Company: Join a supportive catering team in a vibrant school environment.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, pension contributions, and discounts on shopping and gyms.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career growth in a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Why this job: Make a positive impact on children's health while enjoying term-time hours with no weekend work.
- Qualifications: Experience in cooking and a passion for providing healthy meals.
The predicted salary is between 14.13 - 14.13 £ per hour.
We have an opportunity to join our catering team where you will be providing tasty, nutritious, home‑cooked meals made from locally sourced fresh produce. We are recruiting a Cook to join us at Park Primary School, where we cater for around 220 meals a day.
As a Cook you will be delivering an effective catering service, operating to the highest standards of food safety. Your role will require you to prepare, cook and serve meals to pupils and staff, as well as other kitchen management duties such as supervision of staff, ordering of food, stocktaking and administration, setting out and putting away dining furniture, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining areas.
As a valued member of our hard‑working team, you will be reliable, dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working from 08:15 to 14:15, totalling 30 hours per week over 5 days. There is no weekend work! You will work term time weeks only; however, you will receive equal monthly payments throughout the year. For this you will be paid £13.47 – £14.13 per hour, in addition to annual holiday and Bank Holiday entitlement.
What can we offer you? In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier. These include:
- a local government pension scheme with 15.1% employer contribution
- salary sacrifice schemes
- employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more
- travel loans
- Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
Please note we will be interviewing whilst the role is live and reserve the right to close the advert should suitable candidates be appointed.
DBS Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post. NYC is committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies. We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Council’s purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services, we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
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