Job Overview

Position: Morning or Evening Housekeeper
Contract: Permanent
Responsible to: Estates Manager
Hours: Monday to Friday, 4:30-7:30am or Monday to Friday 4:30-7:30pm, 50 weeks per year
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: Position currently available

We are looking for a reliable and hard working housekeeper to join our team, ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness, hygiene and health and safety across our site.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for an allocated area but these may be changed/reviewed on a regular basis. General Guidance for all areas of responsibility which may include any area of the school in the main building, 60s block, Pre-Prep or Boarding House. The Cleaning Supervisor will do regular checks to ensure these standards are maintained.

Daily:

• Empty wastepaper bins into plastic sack and remove to designated area
• Dust/damp wipe or polish desks, tables, chairs and other furniture
• Remove finger marks from glass panels
• Dust/damp wipe fire extinguishers, sills, skirting, ledges, pipes, handrails, balustrades and telephones
• Vacuum all carpeted areas/Sweep all non-carpeted areas

Weekly:

• Machine buff hard floors
• Sanitise telephones
• Remove finger marks from light switches, door frames and walls
• Remove cobwebs
• Polish brass work

Termly:

• Deep clean all areas
• Move furniture and hoover/dust/clean behind and underneath items
• Clean shelves if items have been removed or your Line Manager has requested
• Clean the back of doors, clear cobwebs, disinfect, polish ready for new term
• Clean carpets

Toilets, Changing Rooms, Bathrooms and Showers:

• Daily: Clean and sanitise WC pans, seats, covers, cisterns, wash basins, polish taps and mirrors; clean and sanitise baths and showers; replenish toilet rolls, soap and hand towels; remove dust from ledges, sills, pipes and skirtings; sweep floors and wash with sanitising solution
• Weekly: Remove cobwebs; inhibit calcium build up in sinks and toilets
• Termly: Deep clean all areas

General:

Security checks shall be carried out by cleaners when leaving areas on completion of their cleaning tasks. Any faults with doors, window catches or alarm systems should be reported immediately to the Estates Manager or member of staff on duty. Staff shall demonstrate good cleaning practice by ensuring that all tasks are carried out at regular and equal intervals. Where bin liners are in use, soiled bin liners are to be replaced. Staff are responsible for the removal of all rubbish and debris to the recognised collection point. The school recycles paper; staff will be responsible for emptying designated bins.

How to Apply

If you would like to apply for this post, please complete and return the application form to [contact hidden]. For any queries, please speak to: Mrs Charli Hilliard, HR Administrator: [contact hidden] or [contact hidden].

About [Employer hidden]

When, in 1091, St Osmund set up a school to educate the choristers of Salisbury Cathedral, the seeds were sown for the establishment of [Employer hidden]. Today the School is a thriving co-educational day and boarding school set in the heart of the Cathedral Close. We educate around 220 children. The school seeks to maintain and build upon traditions of academic achievement, musical excellence and spiritual enrichment. Our mission is to develop the whole child. This approach works. Our results are impressive but, more than this, the children who leave us are confident, self-assured, well-rounded and comfortable in their own skins.