Find out about careers and roles in our facilities management team.
The council has been delivering catering and cleaning services since 1990. We currently provide services to local-authority-maintained schools, academies and multi-academy trusts across North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the North East and a large multi-academy trust in Hull.
Title: Cleaner, Caretaker and Catering Assistant
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour plus £200 Recruitment Payment
Grade: AB and CD
Hours: 2.5 cleaning, 7.5 caretaking, 12.5 catering
Contract: Permanent
Location: Green Hammerton CE Primary School
Closing date: 1 June 2025
Apply online: Cleaner, Caretaker and Catering Assistant - Green Hammerton CE Primary School
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 10 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Amotherby Community Primary School
Closing date: 28 May 2025
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 9.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Badger Hill Academy, Brotton, Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Closing date: 25 May 2025
Apply online: Cleaner - Badger Hill Academy, Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 10 hours per week
Location: Burnsall VA Primary School, Burnsall, Skipton
Closing date: 3 June 2025
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 10 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Carlton Outdoor Centre, Cleveland
Closing date: 25 May 2025
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 22.25 hours per week and 7.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Ryedale School, Nawton
Closing date: 1 June 2025
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 10 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: St Roberts Catholic Primary School, Ainsty Road, Harrogate HG1 4AP
Closing date: 21 May 2025
Apply online: Cleaner - St Roberts Catholic Primary School, Harrogate
Title: Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour plus £200 joining bonus
Grade: CD
Hours: Five hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Burneston C of E Primary School, Burneston, Bedale
Closing date: 20 May 2025
Apply online: Caretaker - Burneston C of E Primary School, Burneston, Bedale
Title: Caretaker and Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB and CD
Hours: Cleaner - 19.5 hours per week (of which three hours term time only), Caretaker - five hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Kirkby and Great Broughton Church of England School, Great Broughton
Closing date: 1 June 2025
Title: Cleaner and Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB Cleaner and CD Caretaker
Hours: Cleaner - 10 hours per week, Caretaker - 5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Follifoot Church of England Primary School, Main Street, Follifoot, Harrogate HG3 1DU
Closing date: 21 May 2025
Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Follifoot Church of England Primary School, Follifoot
Title: Cleaner and Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB Cleaner and CD Caretaker
Hours: Cleaner - 17.5 hours per week, Caretaker - 7.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent - term time only plus two weeks
Location: Hemingbrough Community Primary School, Hemingbrough, Selby
Closing date: 20 May 2025
Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Hemingbrough Community Primary School, Hemingbrough, Selby
Title: Cleaner and Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB Cleaner and CD Caretaker
Hours: Cleaner - 17.5 hours per week, Caretaker - 3.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: North Rigton Primary School, Leeds
Closing date: 21 May 2025
Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - North Rigton Primary School, Leeds
Title: Cleaner and Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB Cleaner and CD Caretaker
Hours: Cleaner - 10 hours per week, Caretaker - 2.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Sicklinghall Primary School, Sicklinghall
Closing date: 21 May 2025
Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Sicklinghall Primary School, Sicklinghall
Title: Cook
Salary: £13.05 - £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Contract Type: permanent, term time only
Vacancy Hours: 16.25 hours per week term
Location: Alanbrooke Primary School, Thirsk
Closing date: 25 May 2025
Title: Cook
Salary: £13.05- £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Contract type: Permanent, term time only
Vacancy hours: 21.25 hours (17.5 core/3.75 variable)
Location: Alanbrooke Academy, Thirsk
Closing date: 1 June 2025
Title: Travelling Cook
Salary: £13.05 - £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Hours: 25 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Scarborough and surrounding areas
Closing date: 25 May 2025
Apply online: Travelling Cook - Scarborough and surrounding areas
Title: Cook
Salary: £25,183 to £26,409 pro rata per annum
Grade: E
Contract type: Fixed term - six months
Vacancy hours: 25 hours per week
Location: Dunnington Primary School, York
Weekend working: No
Closing date: 1 June 2025
Title: Cook
Salary: £13.05- £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Contract type: Permanent
Vacancy hours: 22.5 hours per week - term time only
Location: Husthwaite CE Primary School, Low Street, Husthwaite, York, YO61 4QA
Closing date: 1 June 2025
Title: Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: CD
Hours: 11 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Long Preston Primary School and Hellifield Community Primary School
Closing date: 3 June 2025
Apply online: Caretaker - Long Preston Primary School and Hellifield Community Primary School
Title: Mobile Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 30 hours per week
Contract: Temporary, maternity cover - 12 months
Location: Skipton, Harrogate and the surrounding areas
Closing date: 3 June 2025
Apply online: Mobile Cleaner - Skipton, Harrogate and the surrounding area
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 15 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Brooklands School, Skipton
Closing date: 3 June 2025
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour plus up to 10% recruitment payment
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy Hours: Up to 25 hours per week, term time only (plus 3 weeks)
Location: St Mary’s C of E School, Askham Richard, York
Apply online for Cleaner and Caretaker, St Mary’s C of E School role
We have a strong supply chain infrastructure in place to ensure that we can effectively service all of our contracts and guarantee continuity of service in the event of the failure of any single supplier. In addition, we also have a team of mobile and peripatetic cooks providing short-term staffing cover in the event of planned and unplanned absences.
The service complies with the school food standards and accredited by the soil association food for life bronze award. We founded our service on the provision of fresh food and this continues to be at our core today. We promote local and fresh with 75% of our meals being cooked daily on-site, and with ingredients from our three main suppliers located within Yorkshire to reduce our carbon footprint, and promote local businesses.
The understanding of the field to the fork is important to us, and with this in mind, we provide fun and educational cookery classes for pupils and parents as requested by our passionate and talented development and training team who all have years of experience in catering and educational settings.
In addition to providing school services, we also have customers from the corporate sector. We achieved ISO 9001 accreditation in July 2021. This quality standard is a globally recognised reward which provides our customers with the confidence that they are working with a supplier who provides a high standard of customer service.
People are at the heart of everything we do and our colleagues are the lifeblood of our business. Our teams are passionate and hardworking and they value delivering the highest standards within our schools and corporate businesses.
When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 24 days rising to 33 days per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Up to ten days extra leave can be purchased at any time and you can also bank your additional time as flexi. You can save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution from North Yorkshire Council.
You are also entitled to a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers. We also have salary sacrifice schemes that allow you to spread the cost from your monthly salary. These schemes include:
North Yorkshire really is a stunning, vibrant county with safe communities and excellent education. Over the past two years the new national crime figures have revealed North Yorkshire to be the safest place in England. It is rich in heritage and culture, in a back drop of outstanding natural beauty, vibrant cities, market towns, quaint villages, stunning rural and coast landscapes. We can also boast having three towns in the top ten of the UK Halifax quality of life survey
If you are considering relocating to North Yorkshire, we provide a comprehensive relocation benefits package - subject to eligibility - and as a whole North Yorkshire offers some great employment opportunities for your family members along with a substantial number of good to outstanding performing schools. A simply stunning location to live and work, we really do have it all! Read our relocation policy for more information.
The county benefits from excellent road and rail links, with easy access via the east coast mainline, the A1(M) and A19. Leeds, York, Newcastle, Durham and Teesside are all easily commutable, and London just two hours away by train. North Yorkshire borders the Lake District, Lancashire, County Durham, and Yorkshire & Humber regions with all they have to offer.
You can find out more about what North Yorkshire has to offer on the No place like North Yorkshire website.
If you feel you have the skills, passion, and drive that we are seeking, we want to hear from you.
For an informal conversation about opportunities, please contact Sophie Hills, Resourcing Officer at sophie.hills@northyorks.gov.uk.
To apply for any role, please submit your application via our jobs and careers site.
We will not accept applications from agencies.