Housekeeping Assistant

St Catharine's College / University of Cambridge; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

An established institution in the heart of Cambridge is seeking a dedicated part-time Housekeeping Assistant to join their friendly team. This role offers the opportunity to provide exceptional service to the college community while maintaining high cleanliness standards across various properties. Ideal candidates will possess excellent communication skills and the ability to manage their workload effectively, especially during busy conference periods. Join a supportive environment where your contributions will be valued and appreciated.

Qualifications

• Ability to clean and service rooms to a high standard.
• Good communication skills for customer-facing interactions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure cleanliness is maintained throughout the college.
• Manage workload effectively during busy periods.

Skills

Cleaning and servicing college rooms

Good communication skills

Workload management

Job description

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint a part-time Housekeeping Assistant on a 6 month fixed term contract, to join our busy, friendly Housekeeping team, providing a first class service for our college community.

Working as part of the busy Housekeeping team to ensure a high standard of cleanliness is achieved and maintained throughout the college. This role will be based predominantly off the main site and you will be deployed to work across all College properties (within the city of Cambridge), depending on the needs of the department.

The ideal candidatewill be able to demonstrate the following:

• An ability or aptitude to clean and service college rooms using agreed methods and procedures: ensuring a high standard of cleanliness is achieved and maintained at all times.
• Good communication skills are essential as the nature of the role is customer facing and will involve contact with students, Fellows, visitors, conference guests and work colleagues.
• Be able to manage their own workload and work to deadlines which is particularly important during busy conference periods when our award winning B&B service is in place.

Working arrangements and salary

• This is a 6 month fixed term appointment subject to a 3 month probation period
• Part time (20 - 25 hours a week)
• Competitive annual salary of FTE £24,664.50 pa (pro rata for part time hours, £12.60 per hour).
• This role will be based predominantly off the main site, you will be deployed to work across all College properties (within the city of Cambridge), depending on the needs of the department.

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Please refer to the 'join our team' page for our full range of staff benefits.

The closing date for completed applications is 9am on Monday 19 May 2025however we will be screening applications as they are received and may interview whilst the advert is live so you are encouraged to apply early.

Wereserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications or fill the position before the closing date.