Contract Type: Permanent.
Working Hours: 22 hours per week
Worker Type: Onsite Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £26,824 (Level one) - rising to £27,694 per annum (pro rata for part-time) (£13.90 - 14.35 per hour) (Pay award pending)
Location: Crocus Fields, Arkwright Walk, Nottingham, NG2 2HN
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
Nottingham City Council are looking to appoint a Cook at Crocus Fields short breaks unit for children and young people with disabilities. Crocus Fields offers care to young people who have severe learning disabilities and physical disabilities, many of whom are on the autistic spectrum.
The role requires an ability to provide a flexible catering service to meet the needs of service users and staff. The principal duties will include providing meals to meet varied dietary needs of the young people, order and purchase food, menu planning, managing the food budget, offering nutritious and well balanced meal, and complete all the necessary legislative administrative tasks and domestic duties. This post is predominately one where you will be expected to work using your own initiative.
You will work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and weekends on a rota basis and undertake any training as required to meet the needs of the home.
To apply for this role please ensure that you respond to the following items taken from the person specification of this role in your application
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team.
- A considerate and positive approach to working with people of different race, age, culture, gender, sexual orientation and physical/ learning disabilities.
- Able to provide economical nutritious well-presented meals of good quality that meet the nutritional needs of young people, within the resources available.
- Able to cater for special diets relating to culture, health or religion.
- Experience of cooking for similar numbers
- Able to plan a menu to provide for a diverse client group.
- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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 Joanne Wright by telephone on 07984244355,or by email at joanne.wright@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Closing Date: 28th June 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
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Contact Details:
Nottingham City Council, Leicestershire County Council, East Midlands Group Recruitment Team
