Housekeeping Assistant

Andrew Brownsword Hotels; Bath; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Service charge shared

Staff discounts

Meals on duty

Employee assistance programme

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Andrew Brownsword Hotels is seeking a Housekeeping Assistant at The Bath Priory to join our welcoming team. We value personality and attitude, and training will be provided to get you up to speed with cleaning standards and COSHH requirements.

You will help maintain sparkling guest rooms and public areas, contributing to a warm, guest-focused environment. We encourage a positive, flexible approach, with opportunities to grow within our family of luxury hotels.

Qualifications

• No previous experience required; personality and attitude matter most.
• Full COSHH training will be provided or updated as needed.
• You will work as part of a friendly hotel team to keep guest areas spotless.

Responsibilities

• Clean guest rooms and public lounge areas to a high standard.
• Ensure safety and COSHH compliance in daily tasks.
• Collaborate with team across departments to deliver excellent guest experience.

Skills

Positive attitude

Team player

Flexible

COSHH awareness

Job description

Come and join our team as a Housekeeping Assistant and let your passion and personality shine. Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests. As a Housekeeping Assistant you will keep all front of house areas and guest bedrooms gleaming, ready to welcome our wonderful guests. We welcome applications from candidates with no experience, as this role is all about personality and attitude, we can teach you the rest. Check out some of the key points about the role:

Responsibilities

• From cleaning rooms, to cleaning the lounge, you'll play a massive part in making our beautiful hotel look and feel welcoming.
• We want you to be safe, it's important to keep up to date on all COSHH training.
• We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

Location: The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey-coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

SERVICE CHARGE: We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel - every penny received is paid out to the team. Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return. To say thank you, we have many perks:

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay - We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels - you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it's OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up - we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable. Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests. We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our stylish boutique townhouse in the heart of Chelsea - to see the whole group, take a look here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk