Overview
Job Title: Cleaning Team Leader (Part-Time)
Salary: Commencing at £25,055 with progression to £25,686 pro rata per annum
Closing Date: 2025-11-25
About the Role
This is a part-time role: 20 hours per week.
Monday to Friday 6am – 10am
Harrogate College is looking for a Cleaning Team Leader to join the team.
In this role, you’ll support the Premises Supervisor to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the cleaning team. You’ll help to maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across the College by coordinating staff deployment, prioritising tasks, and responding to any staffing or operational needs.
Working as part of our friendly Facilities team, you’ll play an important role in creating a safe, welcoming, and well-maintained environment where students, staff, and visitors can work and learn at their best.
*Actual salary for 20 hours per week is commencing at £13,543 (£12.99 per hour) with progression to £13,884 (13.31 per hour) per annum.
What You Will Do
- Make sure cleaning staff can quickly and easily access their work areas for example, by issuing and collecting keys, opening areas, or arranging changes to access cards when needed.
- Report any faulty equipment straight away, remove it from use, and label it clearly. Ensure all cleaning equipment is used safely and in line with Health & Safety guidelines.
- Manage and issue cleaning materials and equipment so staff have what they need, while following good stock control, COSHH regulations, and any internal systems.
- Work flexibly to support special events such as Open Days or evening activities when required.
- Be part of the emergency call-out team, responding to issues as needed.
- Responsible for the security of the colleges’ buildings and equipment between 6am and 8am Monday to Friday.
About You
- Level 2 Maths and English are essential IOSH Managing Safely and NVQ level 2 certification in cleaning skills (or equivalent) are desirable but not essential.
- Previous commercial cleaning experience.
- A good work related knowledge of Health and Safety.
- Experience of supervising a team.
- Experience of working flexibly to meet business demand.
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.
- We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
- We shall not be liable for any fee / commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
