NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNCIL

Salary: £13.92 to £14.59 per hour

Grade: E

Contract: Relief

Location: Ripon, North Yorkshire

We are currently recruiting a Relief Mobile Cook to join our team at various schools in the Ripon and surrounding area school kitchens, catering for a varied number of meals per day, depending on the school’s requirements.

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
• Access to a range of benefits and discounts including green car scheme, childcare vouchers, and home technology scheme.

See the Total Rewards Brochure below for even more benefits.

About Us

We have an opportunity to join our award-winning NYES 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.

About the Role

• As a Relief Mobile 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 within the area as directed by the area management team.
• Full driving license and use of a personal vehicle with business use insurance are required.
• As a valued member of our hardworking team, you will be dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working between 9:00 am and 1.30pm depending on the site which you would be covering. Full on-site training will be conducted.
• No weekend work! You will work in term time only. For this you will be paid £13.92- £14.59 per hour plus milage (55p per mile) and travel time from your base school.

Contact Details: If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Anne Marie Kaye (Area Manager) on 07815994164 or email annemarie.kaye2@northyorks.gov.uk

Key Documents:

Job description.docx

Total rewards | North Yorkshire Council

Key Dates:

Closing Date: 13 September 2026
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Venue for Interview: To be confirmed

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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 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.

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.

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Relief Mobile Cook

Salary: £13.92 - £14.59 per hour

Posted: 28/08/2026

Closing date: 13/09/2026

Closing time: 23:59 (BST)