Salary: £12.65 per hour

Contract: Relief

Hours: Relief

Location: Ripon, North Yorkshire

Relief Catering Assistant: Various posts covering different locations: Harrogate, Ripon and Skipton Areas.

As part of our catering team, you will be performing a variety of tasks to help prepare tasty, nutritious meals 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 for a few Relief Catering Assistants to join our team. Your role will be to support the Cook/Catering Manager in delivering an effective catering service operating to the highest standards of food safety. You will be providing cover for holiday and sickness and will be responsible for carrying out basic food preparation, setting out and clearing away dining furniture, serving meals to students and staff, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining room.

You will be a valued member of our friendly team who is reliable, dependable and committed; although your hours may vary, there will be no weekend work! For this you will be paid £12.65 per hour. Mileage will be paid at 45p per mile.

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 Anne Marie Kaye on AnneMarieKaye2@northyorks.gov.uk

Key Documents

Job description: General Kitchen Assistant.docx

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Key Dates

Closing Date: 04 January 2026

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Venue for Interview: To be confirmed

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.