Part time Housekeeper near Wells

Harmony at Home Limited; Coxley; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Live-in option

Flexible schedule

Pet-friendly home

Job summary

Harmony at Home Limited seeks a reliable, detail-oriented housekeeper/house manager for a large family home near Wells in Somerset. The role requires experience in housekeeping, comfort with children and pets, and proactive organisational skills.

You will support cleaning, laundry, meal prep, and running errands within a calm, busy family environment. The position offers 18 hours per week across 3–5 flexible days, with a live-out arrangement and an optional fully self-contained live-in studio.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years housekeeping experience with some childcare.
• Paediatric First Aid training required.
• Enhanced DBS certificate with update service required.
• Driving licence with own car essential.
• Live-out option with 3–5 days and 18 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Clean the home, manage laundry and ironing, change bedding.
• Meal prep for the family and batch cooking would be beneficial.
• Tidy, organise, and declutter to support family life; shop for groceries and handle online deliveries.
• Run occasional errands and coordinate tradespeople (boiler servicing, window cleaning, gardening).
• Support running a family home where children may be present and animals live in the home.

Skills

Housekeeping

Childcare experience

Organisation

Reliability

Job description

This busy, working, creative family are looking for a reliable, detail-oriented and experienced housekeeper/house manager to help keep their home calm, clean, and organised.

The large family home is just outside the beautiful city of Wells in a village, set in a picturesque, 3 acre, setting in the lovely Somerset countryside. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a large family home and be proactive, organised and with a muck in attitude. They do have two school age children (14 and 12) so someone who has experience of children and is happy to help out with them, especially in the school holidays, when required, would be great.

Your duties will be all cleaning of the home, laundry and ironing, changing bedding, meal prep for the family, some batch cooking would be beneficial. Tidying, organising and decluttering to support family life, grocery shopping and putting away online food shop deliveries, some occasional family errands such as Post Office, Dry Cleaning, Charity shop drops etc. Along with assistance with organising trades people e.g. boiler servicing, window cleaning, gardeners etc.

This position is ideal for someone who is thoughtful, calm, and understands a dynamic creative neurodiverse family. Able to support running a family home, with family members sometimes present. The home is shared with a dog, a puppy and a cat - so comfort around animals is a must and the girl loves riding too.

There is a live in option too - a fully self contained studio flat with downstairs kitchen/diner & upstairs living area and bedroom in one open space complete with separated ensuite and walk in wardrobe area. Comes furnished. They will also consider a couple.

• This is a permanent position.
• Location: Wells
• Minimum experience required: 4 years housekeeping and some childcare experience
• Required training: Paediatric First Aid
• Preferred qualifications: Not required
• Working days: 3-5 days (can be flexible)
• Working hours: 18 hours per week
• Start date: Asap
• End date: N/A
• Pets in the home: Dog, puppy and cat
• Driving licence required: Essential with own car
• Salary: £20 gross per hour (live out)

For all roles with children and the vulnerable you must have an up-to-date enhanced DBS certificate which is registered on the update service, a 12 hour Paediatric First Aid Certificate and a minimum of 2 professional referees who are happy for you to share their contact details to our recruiters. One of your references must be your current or last employer and both references must be immediately contactable. We also recommend that you have appropriate professional insurance (nanny insurance). Whilst we usually undertake all registration interviews and right to work checks in person face to face, we will in certain circumstances consider video call registrations and digital right to work checks via a certified digital identity service provider (IDSP).

We support the principle of Equality and Diversity in employment wholeheartedly and oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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