Linen Porter

The Alexander Hotel Collection; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks holiday rising to 5 weeks

8 Bank holidays

Free car parking

Employee uniform

Job summary

The Alexander Hotel Collection is seeking a Linen Porter for Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa near London. The role involves stocking linen, assisting housekeeping, and ensuring guest areas stay spotless.

You will work 34.5 hours over five days including weekends, with a salary of £22,801.74 per year plus monthly service charge, plus benefits such as holiday entitlement and parking. Join a team in a 5-star hotel environment with spa facilities and multiple restaurants, where attentive,

Qualifications

• Physically fit with no back problems.
• Energetic and guest-aware team player.
• Experience with safe lifting techniques.
• Smart, well-presented and attentive to guests.

Responsibilities

• Stock linen cupboards with sheets, pillowcases, duvets and towels.
• Strip beds on busy days for housekeeping to remake with clean linen.
• Clear dirty linen from bedrooms and corridors.
• Operate in-house laundry machines.
• Count and bag linen for laundry partner to collect.
• Count and unpack laundry delivered daily, pull out reject linen.
• Sort reject linen in stock from circulation.

Skills

Physical fitness

Energetic

Safe lifting

Guest-focused

Job description

LINEN PORTER

£22,801.74 per annum + monthly service charge payment

34.5 hours per week, 5 days, including weekend shifts, earliest start 8am latest finish 4.30pm

• 4 weeks holiday rising to 5 weeks with service (for full time and part time contracts)


• 8 Bank holidays


• Free car parking


• Employee uniform

In addition you will benefit from a range of company benefits including:

Discounted hotel accommodation for yourself and your family at all hotels

Discounted hair treatments at our two Utopia Spas

Discount off all food & beverage at all hotels

Discount of individual treatments booked in our two Utopia Spas

Discount on retail products in our two Utopia Spas

Refer a friend staff recruitment scheme In additional you will enjoy a range of other benefits when you celebrate your 1 yr, 3 yr and 5 yr anniversary including; your birthday off paid, complimentary overnight stays, complimentary lunch/afternoon tea and service related holiday

The Place

Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa, part of Alexander Hotels a private group of quality hotels of distinction just outside London.

5 Red Star Hotel, Award winning Utopia Spa, 58 bedrooms including the new luxury Cedar Lodge development and a 2-bedroom self-contained Gatehouse are available for guests.

2 Award winning restaurants, Reflections Restaurant (2 Rosette x 60 covers), AG’s Restaurant (3 Rosette x 35covers) together with a range of conference and banqueting and private dining rooms catering for 8 to 95 guests.

Please see our website for a full list of facilities.

Join our Housekeeping team under the direction of our experienced Head Housekeeper, Inga Zarnowska. There is full time team of housekeeping assistants, linen porters and spa cleaners, as well as an inhouse maintenance team to support you.

We are seeking a Linen Porter. An energetic, fit person is required to assist our hard-working Housekeeping Assistants. Stocking up their linen stores, helping them strip beds on busy days and clearing dirty linen from the guest corridors to ensure the hotel always looks its best. Working 34.5 hours per week, spread over 5 days including weekend shifts.

The Role

• Stocking linen cupboards on the guest corridors with sheets, pillowcases, duvets and towels


• On busy days, stripping off beds ready for Housekeeping Assistants to remake with clean linen for arriving guests


• Clearing dirty linen from the bedrooms/corridors


• Operating inhouse machines for some laundry


• Counting and bagging up linen for laundry company to collect


• Counting and unpacking laundry delivered each day, pulling out reject linen for return


• Sorting reject linen in stock from circulation

Requirements

• Physically fit with no back problems


• Energetic worker


• Experience of safe lifting techniques


• Smart and guest aware