This role has a starting salary of £17,683.76 per annum for working 30 hours per week, 38.4 weeks per year (equivalent to £13.35 per hour, plus annual leave allowance).
Our Offer to You
Competitive salary
Final salary pension
Discounts on various services including food shopping
Health and wellbeing support
Employee Assistance Programme
Full induction
Term time only hours that allow for good work/life balance
Training and development opportunities, including a Level 3 Food Hygiene Qualification.About the Role
Using your passion, creativity and enthusiasm, you will inspire a team to produce an outstanding menu using fresh ingredients. In addition to using your flair and passion to create great dishes, you will record meal transactions, control and administer stock, order food and sundry supplies, and take responsibility for the day to day running of a smooth kitchen. Your main goal will be to provide school children with tasty, nutritious meals that help them develop healthy bodies and minds.
Customer service is at the front and centre of the Twelve15 Vision and Mission. You will be a fantastic communicator with an ability to work with our school clients and our customers to promote the benefits of the service we offer.
Your Application
Your application should evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:
A passion and skill for cooking with an ability to deliver high levels of meals in a food production environment
Health and Safety Certificate Level 1, and proven understanding of health and safety in a kitchen environment
Level 2 Food Safety Certificate
NVQ Level 2 in food preparation and cooking or equivalent
IT and administrative skills
Excellent communication skills (including teamwork, leadership, and customer service)
Experience supervising staff and managing a kitchen
Experience using catering equipment and the ability to train others
Excellent time keeping and flexibility around locations.We'd also love to hear about any other relevant skills, interests, or knowledge that you could bring to the table. Perhaps you have detailed knowledge about allergies, or a particular interest in nutrition. Additionally, if you don't hold these qualifications but have a significant amount of experience catering for large groups of people in a management role, please don't hesitate in applying!
To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 4 questions:
Why do you think eating healthily is so important for children and what is the impact of a healthy school meal for children?
Please tell us about your experience of working in a kitchen, including the part you played in the production of food.
What experience do you have supervising / managing staff responsible for producing large quantities of food?
Please list any skills and qualifications you have that are relevant to this role.Before submitting your application, we recommend you read the job description and our Life at Surrey handbook to get an insight into working at Surrey.
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 20/05/2026 with interviews to follow.
We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.
Important Information regarding this vacancy
Surrey County Council has confirmed that the Twelve15 service is expected to transfer to Hertfordshire Catering Limited (HCL) under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) on 1st September 2026.
If you are successful in securing this role and are employed within the Twelve15 service at the point of transfer (1st September 2026), your employment is expected to transfer to HCL under TUPE. This means that your continuity of service and existing terms and conditions of employment that you would be recruited on, would transfer to the new employer. Further information will be provided during the recruitment process.
Our Commitment
We are a disability confident employer which means if you have shared a disability on your application form and have evidenced you meet the minimum criteria, we guarantee you an interview.
Your skills and experience truly matter to us. From application to your first day, we're committed to supporting you with any adjustments you need, we value inclusion and warmly welcome you to join and help build a workplace where everyone belongs
Salary description
£17683.00 - £17683.00 per year