Housekeeping Assistant

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint a Housekeeping Assistant, to join our busy, friendly Housekeeping team, providing a first class service for our college community.

It is an exciting time for our College with the recent completion of our ‘Central Spaces’ project which includes a new multi-million-pound kitchen, dining facilities, meeting rooms and other spaces such as an on-site gym.

The ideal candidate will 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. The nature of the job will entail contact with students, Fellows, visitors and work colleagues therefore this skill is essential.
• 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

Full time hours of work are 37.5 hours per week - we welcome applications for part-time hours too - please contact us to discuss further. 

Staff Benefits

• Competitive annual salary of FTE £21,336.75 pa.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annual leave year, in addition to Public Holidays for full time employees. This will be pro rata for part-time employees.
• Full training will be provided including COSHH and manual handling in addition to other professional development opportunities.
• A meal allowance giving a free lunch for use in the College dining hall on working days (when on main site).
• Access to a pension scheme with generous employer contributions.
• Access to the College’s Cycle to Work scheme.
• Free use of a small on-site gym.
• Access to comprehensive welfare support/employee assistance.
• Free life assurance (death in service) benefit with probate and bereavement support.
• Access to purchase a private health care scheme.

Application process

In order to apply, please submit a completed application form and send it along with a covering letter, outlining your suitability for the role. Please also complete and submit an Equality and Diversity monitoring form. 

All documents should be emailed to:  recruitment@caths.cam.ac.uk.

The closing date for completed applications is 9am on Thursday 13 April 2023 however we will be screening applications as they are received so you are encouraged to apply early.

We reserve the right to close the application window if we receive a high number of applications.

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