Salary: £12.38 - £13.02 per hour (Plus a £200 joining bonus)
Grade: E
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 18.75 hours per week (Core 15hrs, Variable 3.75 hrs)
Location: Long Marston Primary School, York
We have an opportunity to join our award-winning NYES 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 fuelling their appetite for learning.
We are recruiting a Cook to join us at Long Marston Primary School where we cater for around 30 meals a day. As a Cook you will be delivering an effective catering service operating to the highest standards of food safety. Your role will require you to prepare, cook and serve meals to pupils and staff as well as other kitchen management duties such as supervision of staff, ordering of food, stocktaking and administration, setting out and putting away dining furniture, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining areas.
As a valued member of our hard-working team, you will be reliable, dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working from 09:30am to 13:15pm totalling 18.75 hours per week over 5 days. No weekend work!
You will work term time weeks only however you will receive equal monthly payments throughout the year. For this you will be paid £12.38- £13.02 per hour in addition to annual holiday and Bank Holiday entitlement. A £200 joining bonus will be paid after 6 months probation.
What can we offer you?
You could find working for North Yorkshire Council more rewarding than you first thought!
· Competitive rate of pay
· Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
· 23 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays
· Access to range of benefits and discounts including green car scheme, childcare vouchers and home technology scheme
This post requires an Enhanced DBS, the cost of which will be met by the Employer
Please note we will be interviewing whilst the role is live and reserve the right to close the advert should suitable candidates be appointed
Contact & Apply
For an informal discussion please contact Geraldine Johnson on Geraldine.Johnson@northyorks.gov.uk. Applying is easy, simply click on apply, register your details, remove your personal details from your CV and upload.
Key Dates:
Closing Date: 13.10.2024
Interview Date: 24.10.2024
Key Documents
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
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