Mobile Cook-in-Charge - Arfon Area

Educators Wales; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 15,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in the Arfon Area is seeking a Mobile Cook-in-Charge to prepare meals in schools. This role involves maintaining stringent food hygiene standards and liaising effectively with both school and kitchen teams. Applicants should possess essential skills in teamwork and communication, along with a basic food hygiene qualification. A full driving license is also required for this mobile position that offers a salary range from GBP 13,441 to GBP 14,326 per year.

Qualifications

• Experience cooking in a commercial or school kitchen is essential.
• A nutrition and diet qualification or course completion within 3 months of employment is needed.
• Essential communication skills for group work.

Responsibilities

• Prepare meals for school children in a compliant manner.
• Maintain high standards of food hygiene.
• Communicate effectively with kitchen and school teams.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication skills

Good personal hygiene

Education

Basic food hygiene

Nutrition and diet qualification

Full driving licence

Job description

Salary: GBP 13,441.00 - 14,326.00 per year

Job Advertisement

Mobile Cook-in-Charge

Arfon Area- Bethesda, Bangor and Caernarfon

Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pack.

(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 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 Kath Jones on 01286 679597 or by email: [e-mail].

Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH.

Tel: [phone]

E-Mail: [e-mail]

CLOSING DATE: 10:00 AM, 26/12/2025

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 completion of a level 2 course within 3 months of employment.
• Full driving licence.
• Car owner and prepared to use own car for work (business use on car insurance).

• 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.

Relevant Experience

• Essential – Cooking in a commercial kitchen or a 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

• Essential – Listening and Speaking – Entry level. 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 level. 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 level. Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.