Cook

Salary: £13.47 - £14.13 per hour
Grade: E
Contract: Permanent – Term Time Only
Hours: 25 hour per week (20 core hours and 5 variable hours)
Location: Malham, North Yorkshire, Kirkby-in-Malhamdale VA Primary School

We are recruiting a Cook to join our friendly team at Kirkby-in-Malhamdale VA Primary School, Skipton BD23 4BY.   

We have an opportunity to join our catering team where 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 50 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 25 hours per week over 5 days. Training will be given. No weekend work! 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-£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.

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 

Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits.   

Contact Details:

If you would like an informal discussion about this vacancy, please contact Anne-Marie Kaye on View phone number on nycjobs.engageats.co.uk or Email View email address on nycjobs.engageats.co.uk

Key Documents

Key Dates

Closing Date: 21st June 2026

Interview date: 26th June 2026

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 share 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.

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