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Are you keen to join a friendly team who are committed to making a real impact in their local community?

We are recruiting a Cook to join our friendly team at Spofforth C of E Primary school, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. You will be providing tasty, nutritious, home-cooked meals made from locally sourced fresh produce. NYES is 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.  

As a Cook you will be delivering an effective catering service operating to the highest standards of food safety. Your role will require you to prepare and cook for approximately 80 children a day, serve meals to pupils and staff as well as other kitchen management duties such as supervision of staff, ordering of food, stocktaking and administration, setting out and putting away dining furniture, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining areas. 

As a valued member of our hard-working team, you will be reliable, dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, working typically 27.5 hours per week over 5 days – 8.45am start with a 14.15pm finish. This family friendly role will allow you to work around school holiday commitments. Full training will be provided.

You will work term time weeks only however you will receive equal monthly payments throughout the year.  For this you will be paid £13.47 to £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.

Benefits

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 below to see the full range of benefits.

Key Dates:

Closing Date: 23/11/2025

Interview Date: TBC

Key Documents:

Job Description

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