Cook

Connected Local Government; Knaresborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A Local Government Organization is seeking a Cook for Staveley Primary School in Knaresborough. The successful candidate will prepare and serve healthy meals for around 50 students daily, leading a small catering team to deliver exceptional food services. The role involves kitchen management duties, operating during term time only with a total of 21.25 hours per week, ensuring nutritious options are provided to students. Competitive hourly rates and excellent benefits included.

Benefits

Local government pension scheme with 18.1% employer contribution

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee discount benefits

Travel loans

Health Assured support for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience in food preparation and service.
• Ability to maintain high standards of food safety.
• Familiarity with catering in an educational setting.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook, and serve meals to students and staff.
• Lead and support the catering team.
• Manage kitchen operations including food ordering and inventory.

Skills

Reliability

Commitment to nutrition

Culinary skills

Job description

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

Key documents

Job description: Cook Grade E.docx

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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.

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Contact Geraldine Johnson (Area Manager) on 07974427178 or email at [e-mail]