Salary: £13.47-£14.13 per hour
Grade: E
Contract Type: Permanent, Term Time Only
Vacancy Hours: 21.25 hours per week
Location: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
We have an opportunity to join our award-winning Facilities Management catering team where you will be providing tasty, nutritious, home-cooked meals made from locally sourced fresh produce.
We are a ‘fresh food’ organisation, encouraging children and young people to choose nutritious meals. We are proud to offer a wide choice of healthy options to our children, fuelling their appetite for learning.
We are currently recruiting a Cook to join our team at Staveley Primary School, near Knaresborough, catering for around 50 meals per day. As a Cook your role will lead and support the team to deliver an effective catering service, operating to the highest standards of food safety.
Your role will require you to prepare, cook and serve meals to students and staff, setting up and the clearing away the dining hall, washing up, as well as other kitchen management duties such as supervision of staff, ordering food, stock taking and administration.
As a valued member of our hardworking team, you will be reliable, dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working from 9:30 to 13:45, totalling 21.25 hrs per week. No weekend work!
You will work term time 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 18.1% 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
Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits.
If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Geraldine Johnson (Area Manager) on 07974427178 or email at geraldine.johnson@northyorks.gov.uk
Key documents
Key dates
Closing Date: 18 January 2026
Interview Date: 21-22 January 2026
Venue for Interview: Staveley Primary School, Staveley, Knaresborough
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of adults at risk.
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.