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Housekeeper for a 12 month contract.
Location: Cranborne, Dorset
Contract: 1x Permanent contract and 1x 12-month fixed term contract available, 40 hours per week, year round
Hourly rate: £11.72 - £11.93 per hour
Annual Salary: £24,377.60 - £24,814.40 (depending on experience)
At thisCollege, they prepare students for adult life, through person-centred academic and vocational study programmes leading to independent living with employment or further study. By working together, they increase resilience, confidence, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and well-being: the cornerstones on which strong and successful long-term futures are built.
This college is part of a group that looks after 2,100 children and employs over 4,000 people across a portfolio of 224 residential facilities, and specialist schools.
The main purpose of the role:
The Cllege is looking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic Housekeeper to join the friendly and hardworking team. The successful candidates will work as part of the Housekeeping Team and duties will include vacuum cleaning, wiping furniture, mopping hard surfaces and other general cleaning duties.
Key duties:
- Vacuum cleaning floors
- Spot cleaning of spillages
- Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors and polishing door glass
- Emptying and cleaning bins (daily)
- Cleaning toilets including sanitary fittings and surrounds
- Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces
- Wiping, dusting, cobweb removal, polishing banister rails spindles and wood surrounds.
- Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets, etc (daily)
- Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work and ensure the building is secure on exit
- Such other duties as may be allocated from time to time
- All defects/hazards must be immediately reported
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.
Your Skills & Qualifications/Experience:
- Experience of using equipment and materials in situations where care is needed to prevent harm to others
- Key aspects of Health and Safety legislation for cleaning
- Experience of cleaning a variety of surfaces.
- The role will require some lone working; travel; physical work and the ability to drive
Benefits:
- Life assurance
- Pension
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme
- Free membership to Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
School Staffing Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search**.**
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.