Job Description

Job profile

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The job requirements are detailed below. Essential qualifications, skills and experience are listed in the s/Person Specification which can be found under the attachments section below.

Job details

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Job reference

REQ001693

Date posted

17/07/2025

Apply by

31/07/2025

Salary

25, 992 Pro-rata / 13.47 per hour

Contractual hours

25

Basis

Part Time Term Time

Job category/type

Catering and Cleaning

Cook - Tonysguboriau Primary School

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Job description

Mae'r ddogfen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg / This document is also available in Welsh.

School Catering - Cook

Permanent 25 hours per week: Term-time

Salary:

Grade 5 - 13.47 per hour

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cook to join RCT Catering Services, working in Tonysguboriau Primary School.

Working hours will be approximately 5 hours a day, usually between 9.00am and 2.00pm, Monday to Friday.





The position will involve full running of a kitchen and managing the team. Main duties will include food planning, food preparation, cooking, serving meals to the children, cleaning down the kitchen and washing up as part of a team.





You will also be expected to complete staff timesheets, stock ordering and all kitchen paperwork including an on-line document for food safety compliance.





If you are enthusiastic about cooking and ready to contribute your skills to our school catering teams, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

To be successful in this role, you must have the following attributes: -

Strong experience in cooking and able to work under pressure. Possess good communication skills with a can-do attitude. Food Safety Certificates. Ability to adhere and follow all rules and procedures.




All successful applicants must have a Food Safety Certificate Level 3 or be prepared to undertake and complete a Level 3 within the first week of employment. The catering training team will support the successful candidate to gain this qualification.





For further information or an informal discussion regarding these posts, please contact the Central Catering Team on 01443 281141 or email CateringServices@rctcbc.gov.uk to request a call back.





Protecting children and vulnerable adults is a core responsibility of all staff appointed to the Council.

In addition to this safeguarding responsibility, the successful applicant for this role will also be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

The Council values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

As part of the Council's longer term objectives in relation to the Welsh language and its Workforce Planning Strategy, it is committed to a guaranteed interview scheme for Welsh-speakers of Level 3 and above. If you meet the essential criteria as identified in the person specification for the job and are a Welsh-speaker of Level 3 and above, you will be invited to interview if you choose to participate in the scheme.

In view of the large number of Application Forms which are currently being submitted individual applications are not acknowledged. Consequently if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful on this occasion. In which case you are thanked for the interest you have shown in applying for a position within the Council.





In support of the Council's voluntary pledge to support the Armed Forces, the recruiter must always be prepared to ensure that applicants who have identified themselves as members of the Armed Forces including Service Leavers, Veterans or Reservists and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.