Relief Mobile Cook

Love cooking?

Looking for flexible work that fits around your lifestyle, family commitments, travel plans or another job?

Join our friendly school catering team and help create nutritious, home-cooked meals that support children's health, wellbeing and learning every day.

We are currently recruiting a Relief Mobile Cook to join our team at various schools in the Ripon and surrounding area school kitchens, catering for a varied number of meals per day, depending on the school’s requirements.

Whether you're looking for regular work, additional income alongside another role, or greater flexibility in your schedule, this position offers opportunities to work across our network of schools, with shifts offered according to service requirements. 

Why Apply?

• Flexible work that fits around your lifestyle 
• Freedom to travel when you choose, not just during school holidays 
• Ideal alongside another part-time job 
• No evenings or weekends 
• Regular overtime opportunities 
• Mileage paid for travel between schools 
• Opportunity to make a difference in local schools every day 
• For full details, please see our total rewards brochure

About Us

We have an opportunity to join our award-winning NYES 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.

About the Role

As a Relief Mobile Cook your role will require you to 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 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.

Your role will require you to travel within the area as directed by the area management team.

Full driving license and use of a personal vehicle with business use insurance are required.

As a valued member of our hardworking team, you will be dependable and committed to providing healthy wholesome dishes, typically working between 9:00 am and 1.30pm depending on the site which you would be covering. Full on-site training will be conducted.

No weekend work! You will work in term time only. For this you will be paid £13.92- £14.59 per hour plus mileage (55p per mile) and travel time from your base school.

Contact Details: If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Anne Marie Kaye (Area Manager) on 07815994164 or email annemarie.kaye2@northyorks.gov.uk

Key Documents:

Job description

Total rewards | North Yorkshire Council

Key Dates:

Closing Date: 04 October 2026