Job Title: Cleaning Operative
Actual Annual Salary: £10,512 - £10,732 (Based on actual working hours and working weeks)
Hourly rate: £12.60
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £24,310 - £24,819 (CLF Grade Ai) (Based on 37 hours per week, all year round)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Part time, 16 hours per week, Monday to Friday / All year round
Provisional State Date: 15th December 2025
Your opportunity to assist in the provision of a high standard of cleaning, ensuring the academy is a clean and safe environment for students, staff, and visitors.
The Cleaning Operative is expected to work as part of a team and assist in the provision of a high standard of cleaning, ensuring the academy is a clean and safe environment for students, staff, and visitors.
About you:
You will have:
- Knowledge of the use of basic cleaning methods, equipment, and materials.
- Practical experience of understanding and following processes and procedures.
- Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise workloads effectively.
- A keen interest in working within an education environment and commitment to inclusion and acceptance of all.
- Commitment to continuous improvement through professional development, self-evaluation, and awareness
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
About The Sky Academy:
Sky Academy is a special school for young people in years 5-11 who have an EHCP to support their SEMH and SCL needs. Located in Taunton, our catchment of young people comes from those who live within a 75-minute drive across Somerset. At our core is a belief that every young person deserves the right to an educative experience that prepares them for adulthood and opens doors at post-16. We do this by providing a targeted core curriculum that focuses in equal parts on literacy, numeracy, PSHCE, and PE in addition to a wider curriculum of art, ICT, careers and life skills.
Why work at CLF?
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: 2 November 2025 @11.59pm
- Short-listing: 3 November 2025
- Interviews: 10 November 2025
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
The Cabot Learning Federation are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role has significant responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice within the academy. This role involves working with children on a daily basis and is therefore in regulated activity.
The successful applicant will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK and a child disqualification check. The checks will also include an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.
