Salary: £13.28 per hour
Contract: Relief
Hours: Relief
Location: Ripon, North Yorkshire - And surrounding 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 £13.28 per hour. Mileage will be paid at 55p per mile.
What can we offer you?
You could find working for North Yorkshire Council more rewarding than you first thought.
- Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement increasing with continuous service, paid pro rata as part of annual salary
- Access to range of benefits and discounts including green car scheme, childcare vouchers and home technology scheme
More information
For an informal conversation about this role, please contact Anne Marie Kaye on [email protected]
Key Dates:
Closing date: 13.09.2026
Interview date: TBC
Key Documents:
Job Description
Total Rewards Brochure
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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 Councils’ 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.
