Housekeeping Assistants (full or part time hours considered)

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

Job summary

St Catharine’s College in Cambridge is seeking Housekeeping Assistants to join their friendly team. The role involves maintaining cleanliness across college properties while providing excellent service to students and guests. Candidates can work full time or part time with flexible arrangements and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Ability to clean and service college rooms using agreed methods.
• Good communication skills due to customer-facing nature.
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines, especially during busy periods.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standard of cleanliness throughout the college.
• Work as part of a team in the busy Housekeeping department.
• Interact with students, Fellows, visitors, and colleagues.

Skills

Communication Skills

Time Management

Cleaning Aptitude

Job description

Housekeeping Assistants (full or part time)

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint Housekeeping Assistants to work either full time (37.5 hours per week) or part time (min. 22 hours per week) in our 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.

The ideal candidateswill 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

• Competitive annual salary of £24,664.50 pa (pro rata for part time hours) / £12.60 per hour.
• The successful candidates may be deployed to work across any College property (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 Tuesday 1 July 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.