Assistant Cook
Job description
Salary: £12.85 - £13.47 per hour
Grade: CD
Contract: Permanent – Term Time Only
Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Location: Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, Adelaide Primary School
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 Assistant Cook to join our team at Adelaide Primary School, catering for around 300 meals per day.
As an Assistant Cook your role will the Cook to lead 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 supporting the cook with 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 8.45 to 13.15 totalling to 22.5 hrs per week.
This post has the requirement to cover the cooks role in the event of sickness. There is also the requirement of cover at other local schools within the trust. Short term cover overtime is available and mileage will be paid. Long term cover an acting up payment will be made.
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 £12.85 per hour in addition to annual holiday and Bank Holiday entitlement.
Grade CD has a pay scale of £12.85-£13.47 and with annual reviews you are able to claim the scale.
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
This post requires an Enhanced DBS, the cost of which will be met by the Employer.
If you would like an informal discussion please contact Amy Corson (Area Manager) email at Amy.corson@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
Total Rewards Brochure
Key Dates:
Closing Date: 10th August 2025
Interview Date: 13th August 2025 on Microsoft Teams
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.
Assistant Cook
Salary: £12.85 - £13.47 per hour
Posted: 28/07/2025
Closing date: 10/08/2025
Closing time: 23:59