Mobile Cook-in-Charge

Gwynedd Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Gwynedd Council is seeking a kitchen operative to support school kitchens and catering services. You will be involved in menu planning, food production, service, and staff supervision, with responsibilities for health and safety and training of kitchen staff.

The role requires basic food hygiene knowledge, a level 2 qualification and a full driving licence. Welsh language skills are encouraged in line with the council’s bilingual policy.

Qualifications

• Teamwork and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and customer service mindset.
• Welsh language skills are essential or desirable as noted in the job spec.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, supervise and organise food production and service in a kitchen.
• Assist with functions and provide kitchen staff training.
• Ensure health and safety and food safety practices are followed.
• Order supplies, manage stock, and maintain kitchen records.
• Supervise and support kitchen staff and ensure induction training.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Welsh language

Education

Level 2 Food Hygiene

Nutrition qualification

Full driving licence

Job description

Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification. We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually. (Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.) For further information about this post please contact Margaret Rosemary Hughes on [e-mail] Application forms are available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SHTel: 01286 679076E-Mail: [e-mail] CLOSING DATE: 10:00 AM, 10/08/2026 The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate. If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.

Person Specification

Personal attributesEssentialTo be able to work as part of a team (School team and kitchen team)No history of food related illness (ref page D-7 Kitchen Manual – Pre-employment questionnaire)DesirableSelf motivated, happy disposition.Knowledge of healthy food and nutritionTo be sociable and treat people with respectOf clean and tidy appearanceGood personal hygieneQualifications and relevant trainingEssentialBasic food hygieneNutrition and diet qualification or complete a level 2 course within 3 months of employment.Full driving licenceCar owner and prepared to use own car for work (Business use on Car Insurance)DesirableStaff supervisor qualificationsCraft cooking qualificationTraining in food production skillsTraining in food service skills.Training in Health and Safety, e.g. moving and handling or first aid.Training in selling skills.Relevant experienceEssentialCooking in a commercial kitchen or kitchen similar to a school kitchenDesirableExperience of being employed in a food production environmentMenu planning, ordering food and writing recipesRecording and reporting catering costsQuality assurance systemsSkills and specialist knowledgeEssentialTaking part in group work and effectively communicating in a groupDesirableGood interpersonal skillsGood communication skillsMarketing food businessLanguage requirementsListening and Speaking - EntryAble to pronounce the names of places and people correctly.Able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for informationReading and Understanding - EntryAble to read and understand short and simple letters, e-mails, leaflets, and signs in Welsh and English on familiar everyday issues, in order to convey them to someone else.Writing - EntryAble to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

Job Description

Purpose of the post

• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
• To go to kitchens at short notice because of the absence of the Cook in Charge. To prepare, supervise and organise food production and service in a kitchen. Occasionally assist with functions and provide kitchen staff one to one training.

Responsibility for functions

• Staff
• EquipmentMain duties
• Provide food – to include menu planning, ordering food, managing food quantities, prepare and cook food.
• Comply with Health and Safety requirements and Food Safety that affects staff and other persons who may be using, visiting the site.
• Ensure that good work practices are used by all Catering Staff and that the requirements of any relevant statutory provisions and Gwynedd Council Policies are met.
• Arrange and supervise the food service including serving the food.
• Supervise kitchen staff. Allocate duties, organise work and provide training.
• Ensure that every member of kitchen staff receives Health and Safety and Food Safety Induction Training before they begin to work.
• Supervise and manage kitchen hygiene, health and safety.
• Security of the kitchen and the kitchen area by locking and unlocking the kitchen.
• Ensure kitchen equipment is repaired and maintained.
• Administrative duties such as ordering supplies, recording food stock, completing monthly fact sheets, confirming daily events are recorded in the cook’s log.
• Prepare food and serve food at special functions.
• Any other duties following a reasonable request.
• Responsibility for self-development.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
• Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
• Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
• Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing Council’s Carbon Footprint.
• Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
• Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

Special circumstances

• There will be a need to prepare food outside normal hours of work e.g. In Service Training days.
• There is an expectation on the post holder to co-operate with the emergency planning arrangement for Gwynedd Council, to open the kitchen and provide food for people in an emergency and to move to other kitchens where help is required in an emergency.
• To work in kitchens when Cooks are absent, or where there is a vacant post for the period of the absence or vacancy.