Salary: £13.47 - £14.13 per hour

Grade: E
Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy Hours: 18.75 per week, Term Time Only
Location: Danby, North Yorkshire

Danby School Cook near Guisborough

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 Cook to join our team at Danby School, Ainthorpe Lane, Danby, Whitby YO21 2NG, catering for around 30-40 meals per day.

As a Cook, your role will deliver an effective catering service operating to the highest standards of food safety. Your role will require you to prepare and cook lunch for students and staff, washing up as well as other kitchen management duties, ordering food, stock taking and administration.

As a valued member of our hardworking team, you will be reliable, dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working from 09:30 to 13:15 totalling to 18.75 hours per week with room for a little flexibility.

No weekend work!

You will work term time only; however, you will receive equal monthly payments throughout the year. For this you will be paid £13.47 - £14.13 per hour in addition to annual holiday and Bank Holiday entitlement.

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

More Information

If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Elaine Clemit (Area Manager) on 07816251202 or email 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: Cook - Grade E

Total Rewards Brochure

Key Dates:

Closing Date: 13 September 2025

Interview Date: 15-16 September 2025
Venue for Interview: Danby School

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 are 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 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.

Cook

Salary: £13.47 - £14.13 per hour

Posted: 26/08/2025

Closing date: 13/09/2025

Closing time: 23:59

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