Museum and Offices Cleaner/Housekeeper

The Brontë Society is recruiting a museum and offices cleaner/housekeeper to join the Visitor Experience team at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire.  The role includes day-to-day cleaning and maintenance tasks in the Brontë Parsonage Museum, the associated offices, learning space and the visitor facilities. 

The working pattern will be three days out of six, Wednesday to Monday, one of which will be either a Saturday or Sunday. Rotas are provided four weeks in advance. 

Benefits include 20% staff discount in the museum shop, free membership of the Brontë Society, a monthly wellbeing hour, benefits associated with the Museum’s membership of the Yorkshire Attractions Group and access to the research library. We are a Real Living Wage employer.

How to apply

The ‘Job Description/Person Specification’ and the ‘BS Employment Application Form’ can be downloaded from the link below. 

The Brontë Society has a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusivity.  Disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent people and those from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse backgrounds are currently under-represented in our workforce, so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.

The Brontë Society is an equal opportunities employer.  Please help us to monitor how we are doing in this respect by completing the anonymous ‘BS Equal Opportunities Monitoring’ form, which is again available on a link below. 

If you require any of the documents in a different format (eg. printed/large type), please let us know.

Please forward your completed employment application form and equal opportunities monitoring form to [email protected]  or alternatively forms can be mailed/delivered to Alison Boardman, Governance Coordinator, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Church Street, Haworth, BD22 8DR. Please also note that we only accept Brontë Society Application Forms, so please do not submit a CV/Resume style application. 

Shortlisted candidates will be provided with the interview questions in advance of the interview.

Deadline for applications:      Sunday 2 February, 2025

Interviews to be held:             Week commencing Monday 3 February, 2025