Job Title: Cleaning Operative

Actual Annual Salary: £10,512 - £10,732 Based on actual working hours and working weeks

Hourly rate: £12.60 per hour

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:

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:

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. 

Safeguarding Statement

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.