Grade: E
Salary: £13.47 - £14.13 per annum, pro rata
Vacancy Hours: 17.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent-Term Time only
Location: Whitby, North Yorkshire
Cook Ruswarp Primary School Vacancy Hours 17.5 hours per week
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 Ruswarp School, catering for around 30 meals per day. As a Cook your role will 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 the 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. As a valued member of our hardworking team, you will be reliable, dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working from 9.30am till 1.00pm, 3.5 hours per day, totalling to 17.5 hrs per week. 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. (Pay award pending-hourly rate will increase)
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 15.1% 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
If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Sarah Hodges (Area Manager) on 07966188294 or email at [email protected] 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 Dates:
Closing Date: 26th July 2026
Interview Date TBC
Venue for Interview TBC
Key Documents:
Job Description
Total Rewards Brochure
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
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.
