Facilities management opportunities

Find out about careers and roles in our facilities management team.

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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

Cleaner - Burnsall School

Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour (as of 1 April 2025)
Grade: AB
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 10 hours per week
Location: Burnsall VA Primary School, Burnsall, Skipton
Closing date: 12 May 2025

Apply online: Cleaner - Burnsall School

Cleaner - Hellifield CP School

Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 16 hours per week
Contract: established, part-time
Location: Hellifield CP School
Closing date: 12 May 2025

Apply online: Cleaner, Hellifield CP School

Caretaker - Burneston C of E Primary School, Burneston, Bedale

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: 1 May 2025

Apply online: Caretaker - Burneston C of E Primary School, Burneston, Bedale

Cleaner - Ravensworth CE School, Richmond

Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 12.5 hours per week
Contract: established, term time only
Location: Ravensworth CE School, Richmond
Closing date: 30 April 2025

Apply online: Cleaner, Ravensworth CE School, Richmond

Cleaner - Skipton Parish Church School

Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 15 hours per week
Contract: temporary
Location: Skipton Parish Church School
Closing date: 12 May 2025

Apply online: Cleaner, Skipton Parish Church School

Cleaner - Burnsall VA Primary School, Burnsall, Skipton

Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 15 hours per week
Contract: permanent
Location: Burnsall VA Primary School, Burnsall, Skipton
Closing date: 26 April 2025

Apply online: Cleaner, Burnsall VA Primary School, Burnsall, Skipton

Cleaner - Ryedale School, Nawton

Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 20 hours per week
Contract: permanent
Location: Ryedale School, Nawton
Closing date: 11 May 2025

Apply online: Cleaner, Ryedale School, Nawton

Cleaner - Highcliffe School, Guisborough

Title: Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: 10.5 hours per week
Contract: established
Location: Highcliffe School, Guisborough
Closing date: 11 May 2025

Apply online: Cleaner - Highcliffe School, Guisborough

Cleaner - Amotherby Community 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: 12 May 2025

Apply online: Cleaner - Amotherby Community Primary School

Caretaker - Long Preston Primary School and Hellifield Community Primary School

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: 23 April 2025

Apply online: Caretaker - Long Preston Primary School and Hellifield Community Primary School

Caretaker - Otley Street Nursery, Skipton

Title: Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: CD
Hours: 7.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent, term time plus two weeks
Location: Otley Street, Nursery, Skipton
Closing date: 12 May 2025

Apply online: Caretaker - Otley Street Nursery, Skipton

Caretaker - Richmond Methodist School

Title: Caretaker
Salary: Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour plus £200 joining bonus
Grade: CD
Contract Type: permanent
Vacancy Hours: 16 hours per week
Location: Richmond Methodist School
Closing date: 30 April 2025

Apply online: Caretaker - Richmond Methodist School

Cleaner and Caretaker - Spennithorne School, Leyburn

Title: Cleaner and Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB Cleaner and CD Caretaker
Hours: Cleaner - 15 hours per week term time only and two weeks, Caretaker - 10 hours per week term time only
Contract: Established
Location: Spennithorne School, Leyburn
Weekend working: No
Closing date: 27 April 2025

Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Spennithorne School, Leyburn

Caretaker and Cleaner - Bilsdale Midcable Chop Gate CE School, Great Broughton

Title: Caretaker and Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: Cleaner - 7 hours per week, Caretaker - 3 hours per week
Contract: permanent
Location: Bilsdale Midcable Chop Gate CE School, Great Broughton
Closing date: 29 April 2025

Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Bilsdale Midcable Chop Gate CE School, Great Broughton

Caretaker and Cleaner - Kirkby and Great Broughton Church of England School, Great Broughton

Title: Caretaker and Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Grade: AB
Hours: Cleaner - 19.5 hours per week, Caretaker - 5 hours per week
Contract: permanent
Location: Kirkby and Great Broughton Church of England School, Great Broughton
Closing date: 30 April 2025

Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Kirkby and Great Broughton Church of England School, Great Broughton

Caretaker and Cleaner - South Otterington CE VC Primary School, Northallerton

Title: Caretaker and Cleaner
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour
Grade: AB Cleaner and CD Caretaker
Hours: Cleaner - 7.5 hours per week, Caretaker - 7.5 hours per week term time only
Contract: permanent
Location: South Otterington CE VC Primary School, Northallerton
Closing date: 30 April 2025

Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - South Otterington CE VC Primary School, Northallerton

Cleaner and Caretaker - Crayke Primary School, Easingwold

Title: Cleaner and Caretaker
Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour per hour plus £200 joining bonus
Grade: AB Cleaner and CD Caretaker
Hours: Cleaner - 11 hours per week, Caretaker - 7.5 hours per week term time only
Contract: permanent
Location: Crayke Primary School, Easingwold
Closing date: 11 May 2025

Apply online: Cleaner and Caretaker - Crayke Primary School, Easingwold

Cook - Brooklands School, Skipton

Salary: £13.05- £13.69 per hour
Grade: E
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy Hours:  23.75 hours per week term time only
Location: Brooklands School, Skipton
Closing date: 23 April 2025

Apply online: Cook - Brooklands School, Skipton

Cook - Alanbrooke Academy, Thirsk

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 Academy, Thirsk
Closing date: 5 May 2025

Apply online: Cook - Alanbrooke Academy, Thirsk

Travelling Cook - Thirsk, Northallerton, Stokesley and Catterick area 

Title: Travelling Cook
Salary: £25,183 - £26,409 per annum, pro rata
Grade: E
Hours: 25 hours per week
Contract: fixed term, term time only
Contract end date/duration: one year after start date
Location: Thirsk, Northallerton, Stokesley and Catterick area 
Closing date: 11 May 2025

Apply online: Travelling Cook  - Thirsk, Northallerton, Stokesley and Catterick area

Travelling Cook - Scarborough and surrounding areas

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: 5 May 2025

Apply online: Travelling Cook - Scarborough and surrounding areas

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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. 

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Working for us - what we can offer you

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: 

  • car scheme
  • salary finance
  • cycle to work
  • technology scheme 

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
 

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