Salary: £12.60 per hour
Contract: Permanent
Hours: up to 25 per week, (Term time only plus 2 weeks)
Location: Headlands Primary School, York

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.
Current key opportunities
Cleaners - Headlands Primary School, York
Cleaners - Headlands School, York
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Up to 25 per week (Term time only plus 2 weeks)
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: To be arranged
Location: Headlands Primary School, York
Cleaner - St Roberts Catholic Primary School, Harrogate
Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 10 hours per week
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: 24 June 2025
Location: St Roberts Catholic Primary School, Harrogate
Cleaner - Roseberry Academy, Great Ayton
Salary: 12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 10 hours
Closing date: Sunday 29 June 2025
Interview date: Wednesday 2 to Friday 11 July 2025
Location: Roseberry Academy, Great Ayton
Cleaner and caretaker - Bishop Monkton Primary School, Harrogate
Title: Cleaner and caretaker
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB and CD
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Cleaning: 8 hours per week; Caretaking: 5 hours per week
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: week commencing 24 June 2025
Location: Bishop Monkton C of E Primary School, Harrogate
Apply online: Cleaner and caretaker - Bishop Monkton Primary School
Cleaner and Caretaker - Green Hammerton CE Primary School, York
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour and up to 10 percent recruitment payment
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Up to 10 hours per week
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Location: Green Hammerton
Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Green Hammerton CE Primary School, York
Cleaning and caretaker - Kirby and Great Broughton School
Title: Cleaner and caretaker
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB and CD
Contract type: Permanent: 16.5 hours cleaning and 5 hours caretaking; 3 hours cleaning term time only
Hours: Cleaning: 19.5 hours per week; Caretaking: 5 hours per week
Closing date: 16 June 2025
Interview date: 18 to 27 June 2025
Location: Kirby and Great Broughton School
Apply online: Cleaner and caretaker - Kirby and Great Broughton School
Cleaner and caretaker - North Rigton CE Primary School, Leeds
Title: Cleaner and caretaker
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB and CD
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Cleaning: 17.5 hours per week; Caretaking: 3.5 hours per week
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Location: North Rigton CE Primary School, Leeds
Apply online: Cleaner and caretaker - North Rigton Primary School
Cleaner and caretaker - Sicklinghall Community Primary School, Wetherby
Title: Cleaner and caretaker
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB and CD
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Cleaning: 12.5 hours per week; Caretaking: 2.5 hours per week
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: 24 June 2025
Location: Sicklinghall Community Primary School
Apply online: Cleaner and caretaker - Sicklinghall Community Primary School
Cleaner and Caretaker - Spennithorne School, Leyburn
Salary: £12.60-£13.05 per hour plus £200 recruitment payment
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Up to 25 hours per week, term time only (plus two weeks)
Closing date: 6 July 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Location: Spennithorne School, Leyburn
Apply now: Cleaner and Caretaker, Spennithorne School, Leyburn
Cleaner and caretaker - St Mary’s School, Asham Richard
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour and up to 10 percent recruitment payment
Grade: Cleaner Grade AB / Caretaker Grade CD
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Up to 25 hours per week, term time only (plus three weeks)
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Location: St Mary's School, Asham Richard
Cleaner, Caretaker and Catering Assistant - Crayke Primary School, Easingwold
Salary: £12.60 to £13.05 per hour and up to 10 percent recruitment payment
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Up to 26 hours per week
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Location: Crayke Primary School, Easingwold
Apply online: Cleaner, Caretaker and Catering Assistant - Crayke Primary School, Easingwold
Cook - Austwick Primary School, Lancashire
Title: Cook
Salary: £13.05- £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Contract type: Permanent, term time only
Hours: 21.25 hours (17.5 core hours / 3.75 variable hours)
Closing date: 22 June 2025
Location: Austwick Primary School, Lancashire
Cook - Danby CE School, Whitby
Salary: £13.05 to £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Contract type: Permanent - term time only
Hours: 18.75 per week
Closing date: Sunday 29 June 2025
Interview date: Wednesday 2 to Thursday 3 July 2025
Location: Danby CE School, Whitby
Cook - Dunnington Primary School, York
Salary: £25,183 to £26,409 pro rata per annum
Grade: E
Contract type: Fixed term of six months
Hours: 25 hours per week
Closing date: Sunday 6 July 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Location: Dunnington Primary School, York
Cook - Husthwaite Primary School, York
Salary: £25,183 to £26,409 pro rata per annum
Grade: E
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 22.5 hours per week - term time only
Closing date: Sunday 6 July 2025
Interview date: Wednesday 16 July 2025
Location: Husthwaite Primary School, York
Cook - Spofforth Primary School, Harrogate
Salary: £13.05 to £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 27.5 per week, 20 core / 7.5 variable (term time only)
Closing date: Sunday 29 June 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Location: Spofforth Primary School, Harrogate

Our catering service
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.
Our cleaning service
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.

Working for us - what we can offer you
We are a strong performing authority, with supportive political leadership and talented teams providing the platform to have a fulfilling, challenging and successful career in a truly stunning place.
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier. These include:
• a local government pension scheme generous employer contribution
• salary sacrifice schemes
• modern flexible working practices
• learning and development packages
• career advancement opportunities
• employee discount benefits including shopping and gym discounts
• green car and cycle schemes
• travel loans
• Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
Living and working in North Yorkshire
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.

Contact us and apply
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.