Relief Travelling Cook

Company: Applefields School
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Location: Northallerton
Job Description:

Location: Northallerton, 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 encouraging them to eat well and fuel their appetite for learning.

We are currently recruiting a Relief Mobile Cook to join our team at various schools across the Thirsk/Easingwold/Northallerton area, catering for a varied number of meals per day depending on the schools’ requirements.

As a Travelling Cook your role will require you to 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 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.

Your role will require you to travel significantly within the county as directed by the area management team. Full driving licence and use of a personal vehicle is required with business use insurance and a mileage allowance of £0.45 per mile will be paid. As a valued member of our hardworking team, you will be reliable, dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working various hrs per week, as the business needs. No weekend work! You will work term time only. For this you will be paid £13.47 per hour.

What can we offer you?

  • Competitive rate of pay
  • Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Generous holiday entitlement starting at 28 days per year plus Bank Holidays
  • Access to a range of benefits and discounts including green car scheme, childcare vouchers and home technology scheme

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.

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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Posted: June 8th, 2026