Household Assistant

Join the Housekeeping Team at Worth School

Worth School is seeking a reliable, hardworking, and enthusiastic Household Assistant to join our dedicated Housekeeping team. Reporting to the Housekeeping Manager, you will play an important role in maintaining the high standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and presentation that help create a safe and welcoming environment for our pupils, staff, and visitors.

This is a varied and hands-on role involving the cleaning and upkeep of school facilities, including classrooms, boarding houses, washrooms, communal areas, and kitchens. Duties include dusting, vacuuming, mopping, sanitising touchpoints, replenishing supplies, and ensuring allocated areas are maintained to an exceptional standard.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has previous cleaning experience.
• Takes pride in delivering high standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
• Works well as part of a team.
• Has a positive, flexible, and conscientious approach.
• Understands the importance of health and safety and safeguarding responsibilities.

Previous experience within an independent school, hotel, or commercial cleaning environment would be advantageous but is not essential.

At Worth School, you will be joining a supportive and friendly community committed to excellence and pupil wellbeing. This role offers the opportunity to make a valued contribution to the day-to-day life of one of the UK’s leading independent schools.

If you are dependable, take pride in your work, and enjoy being part of a team, we would love to hear from you.

The School offers its own generous salary scale and an enhanced benefits scheme including an employee assistance programme, meal provision and enhanced pension contribution. Employees have access to our facilities and benefit from free parking, social events and discounted school fees.

Worth is a highly successful co-educational, Catholic, Benedictine, 11-18 HMC boarding and day school of circa 600 pupils. It offers a broad curriculum, including the International Baccalaureate and A levels in the Sixth Form.

Applicants are required to apply online by using the Quick Apply button. Alternatively, an application form and job details are available from the HR Department.

Email: recruitment@worth.org.uk

Telephone: 01372 710215

Closing date for applications: 31ST July 2026**

*We reserve the right to invite candidates for interview prior to the closing date and to close vacancies early if we have sufficient suitable applications. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Worth School is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children, all employees must have the ability to understand and adhere to Child Protection and Safeguarding legislation. The role holders safeguarding responsibilities are set out in the job description. References may be taken prior to interview and DBS and other vetting checks will be conducted on the successful applicant.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 Section 7(1)(a) states that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.