Salary: £31,537 - £34,434 per annum

Grade: H
Contract Type:  Permanent, Full time
Vacancy Hours:  37 hours per week

Location: Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire

Are you an effective co-ordinator who has experience in catering and can oversee the cleanliness of a site?

Would you like to join an award winning team and help provide meals and a safe, clean learning environment for children from all over North Yorkshire?

About you

You can bring your creativity, energy, and leadership to manage catering and cleaning operations at Bewerley Park Outdoor Learning Centre, delivering exceptional service and memorable experiences.

Key skills we would love to hear about

• Your flair for menu development to create exciting, diverse options for our guests.
• Commitment to high standards in catering, cleaning, and room setup.
• Passion for customer service to attract new clients and keep existing ones coming back.
• Adaptability to tailor menus and services for a growing and varied clientele.
• Self-motivation and teamwork skills to deliver a seamless, holistic experience for our customers.

The North Yorkshire Outdoor Learning Service is currently developing and looking to attract a wide and diverse clientele, and as such you will have the ability to recognise those opportunities and devise menu and service operations to suit, adapting and developing as the customer base emerges and develops.

The role

As a Catering / Cleaning Manager you will deliver an effective service operating to the highest standards.

Your role will require you to deliver an effective catering and cleaning service to achieve budgeted financial performance, operating to high standards of food safety and cleanliness of the facilities. This will include:

• preparing, cooking and serving meals to our customers, both young people and adults, as well as other kitchen management duties such as the supervision of staff, staff rotas, ordering of food and cleaning products, stocktaking and administration;
• washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining room, setting out and putting away dining furniture;
• assisting colleagues with cleaning and turning round accommodation as required.

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.

Contact and apply

For an informal conversation about this role, please contact Peter Barnes on 01609 535495 or Peter.Barnes@northyorks.gov.uk, or Anne Marie Kaye on AnneMarieKaye2@northyorks.gov.uk

Key Documents

Job description: Catering and Cleaning Manager.docx

Total rewards | North Yorkshire Council

Key Dates

Closing Date: 04 January 2026

Interview Date: 09 January 2026
Venue for Interview:  Bewerley Park

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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