Cleaning Assistant

Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RW

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate

• Closing date

  15 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  5 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: A1 £12.69 per hour 20 Hours Per Week, All Year Round Working Pattern: 2pm – 7pm
• Contract type: Permanent
• Hourly rate: 12.69

What skills and experience we're looking for

Boston Spa Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Cleaning Assistant. This role is of great importance to our work as an academy – the successful will be expected to maintain a high level of cleanliness throughout the school building.

The ideal applicant will have:

• The ability to use toxic materials in the process of general cleaning.
• The ability to work constructively as part of a team.
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development.

What the school offers its staff

What we offer you:

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

About us:

At Boston Spa Academy, our central focus is to empower our students to develop their character to help them to grow into confident, kind and well-mannered young adults. Our school cultivates an environment that allows our students to explore what excites them and fulfil their ambitions, both inside and outside the classroom. In doing so, it equips students to secure the ‘Gift of Choice’ and impact positively on the wider society.

Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the academy core values – Participation, Purpose, Positivity, Professionalism and Principled. Developed in partnership with our students, staff body, parents/carers and governors, we are proud that the core values permeate through our academy, in all aspects of our work and day-to-day life. Through our core values, our vision is that Boston Spa Academy will positively impact the lives of those that attend our academy, now and long after they leave us.

Students at Boston Spa Academy achieve exceptionally well at both GCSE and A Level. With a GCSE Progress 8 score which has been ‘Well Above Average’ for the past 3 academic years, students make excellent progress within their academic studies and progress to the Post-16 destination of their choice. The majority of our students choose to remain at our own sixth form provision, Elliott Hudson College Boston Spa. We are a popular and growing sixth form with a culture of academic success based on our vision of ‘Character; Ambition; Excellence’.

At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.

How to Apply:

If you’re as excited about this opportunity as we are, a Job Description/Person Specification and application form is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to Susie.Dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk or by telephone on 01937 846636.

Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.

Closing date for applications: 15 December 2025 (9am)

Interviews will take place: TBC

We will consider any reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act (2010), to enable an applicant with a disability (as defined under the Act) to meet the requirements of the post.

Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK – either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply for this position.

Please note that, as a sponsor licence holder, we only provide sponsorship for teacher vacancies.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

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About Boston Spa Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1456 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Boston Spa Academy website
• Email address: Susie.Dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01937 846636
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/boston-spa-academy

Working in partnership with The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is a vibrant and successful and school, achieving excellent results and judged to be a Good School in the OFSTED inspection of April 2015.
Located between York, Leeds and Harrogate, Boston Spa Academy is committed to the development of the whole student, the physical, aesthetic, emotional, moral, spiritual as well as the intellectual.

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