Salary: £13.47 - £14.13 per hour

Grade: E
Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy Hours: 25 hours per week, Term Time Only
Location: Whitby, North Yorkshire

Travelling Cook Covering Whitby, Easingwold, Thirsk, Helmsley, Stokesley areas

Would you like a rewarding job where no two days are the same? Do you have a passion for cooking and a keen interest in nutrition?

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 fuelling their appetite for learning.

We are currently recruiting a Relief Travelling Cook to join our team at various schools across the Whitby 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 are required with business use insurance. A mileage allowance of 45p 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 hours per week, as the business needs.

No weekend work!

You will work term time only. For this you will be paid £13.47 - £14.13 per hour.

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 Elaine Clemit (Area Manager) on 07816251202 or email at elaine.clemit@northyorks.gov.uk

Please note we will be interviewing whilst the role is live and reserve the right to close the advert should suitable candidates be appointed.

Key documents

Job description: Travelling Cook Grade E.docx

Total rewards | North Yorkshire Council

Key dates

Closing date: 22 February 2026 
Interview Date: 24 February 2026
Venue for Interview: Ryedale House, Malton 

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post. 

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.