Cook-in-Charge Edern School

• Salary: GBP 14,655.00 - 15,620.00 per year




• Language: Any




• Closing Date: 23 September, 2026 12:00 AM

Job Advertisement

Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually. (Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)

For further information about this post please contact Margaret Rosemary Hughes on margaretrhughes@gwynedd.llyw.cymru

Interview date to be confirmed.

Application forms are available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

E-Mail: Swyddi@gwynedd.llyw.cymru

CLOSING DATE: 10:00 AM, 23/09/2026

The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.

If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.

Person Specification

Personal attributes

Essential

• To be able to work as part of a team (School team and kitchen team)




• No history of food related illness (ref page D-7 Kitchen Manual - Pre-employment questionnaire)

Desirable

• Self motivated, happy disposition.




• Knowledge of healthy food and nutrition




• To be sociable and treat people with respect




• Of clean and tidy appearance




• Good personal hygiene

Qualifications and relevant training

Essential

• Basic food hygiene




• Nutrition and diet qualification or complete a level 2 course within 3 months of employment.

Desirable

• Staff supervisor qualifications




• Craft cooking qualification




• Training in food production skills




• Training in food service skills.




• Training in Health and Safety, e.g. moving and handling or first aid.




• Training in selling skills.




• Full driving licence

Relevant experience

Essential

• Cooking in a commercial kitchen or kitchen similar to a school kitchen

Desirable

• Experience of being employed in a food production environment




• Menu planning, ordering food and writing recipes




• Recording and reporting catering costs




• Quality assurance systems

Skills and specialist knowledge

Essential

• Taking part in group work and effectively communicating in a group

Desirable

• Good interpersonal skills




• Good communication skills




• Marketing food business

Language requirements

Listening and Speaking - Entry

• Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly.




• Able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for information

Reading and Understanding - Entry

• Able to read and understand short and simple letters, e-mails, leaflets, and signs in Welsh and English on familiar everyday issues, in order to convey them to someone else.

Writing - Entry

• Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

Job Description

Purpose of the post

• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.




• To prepare, supervise and organise food production and service in a kitchen. Provide induction and training for kitchen staff.

Responsibility for functions

• Budget




• Staff




• Equipment

Main duties

• Provide food - to include menu planning, ordering food, managing food quantities, prepare and cook food.




• Comply with Health and Safety requirements and Food Safety that affects staff and other persons who may be using, visiting the site.




• Ensure that good work practices are used by all Catering Staff and that the requirements of any relevant statutory provisions and Gwynedd Council Policies are met.




• Arrange and supervise the food service including serving the food.




• Supervise kitchen staff. Allocate duties, organise work and provide training.




• Ensure that every member of kitchen staff receives Health and Safety and Food Safety Induction Training before they begin to work.




• Supervise and manage kitchen hygiene, health and safety.




• Security of the kitchen and the kitchen area by locking and unlocking the kitchen.




• Ensure kitchen equipment is repaired and maintained.




• Administrative duties such as ordering supplies, recording food stock, completing monthly fact sheets, confirming daily events are recorded in the cook's log.




• Any other duties following a reasonable request.




• Responsibility for self-development.




• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.




• Operate within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.




• Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.




• Commitment to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council's Carbon Footprint.




• Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.




• Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

Special circumstances

• There will be a need to prepare food outside normal hours of work e.g. In Service Training days.




• There is an expectation on the post holder to co-operate with the emergency planning arrangement for Gwynedd Council, to open the kitchen and provide food for people in an emergency and to move to other kitchens where help is required in an emergency.




• To move to other kitchens where help is required.