Housekeeper

Location: Osgathorpe, Leicestershire
Job Type: Part time, 22.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £20,666 - £25,833 per annum (depending on experience)
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance, salary exchange pension scheme, life assurance, occupational sick pay, dog friendly offices.

Closing date: 19-04-2024

If you have experience working in housekeeping or hospitality and you are excited about the opportunity to work for a national assistance dog charity, this could be the role for you!

Canine Partners' mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.

To help us create amazing partnerships we need amazing people. Canine Partners has an exciting opportunity for a Housekeeper to join our dedicated housekeeping team.

This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of our essential work that transforms lives every day.

What you will do:

You will be working within a small team to provide housekeeping cover, cleaning and catering for our on-site training courses, and overnight stays by our clients, staff, or other site users. You will be responsible for ensuring all areas of the site are kept cleaned to the highest standard and support the housekeeping and catering needs in all aspects of the charity's work.

What we are looking for:

• Highly effective interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills across a range of audiences.
• Experience of providing cleaning services.
• Ability to plan, prepare and cook hot and cold meals.
• Basic understanding of nutrition including knowledge of special dietary needs and food allergies.
• Some knowledge of human physical disabilities.
• Level 2 food hygiene certificate or willingness to obtain one.
• Flexibility to take on additional hours as needed.

You will be happy to work as part of a team and on your own initiative whilst being personable and approachable to all service users. The role requires some heavy and strenuous cleaning duties therefore it is essential that you have the physical capability to carry out these tasks safely.

Most importantly you will be passionate about the transformative impact that our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries.

We can offer you:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• Charity sick pay
• Life assurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Wellbeing portal
• Free on-site parking
• Dog friendly offices

This role benefits from working at our purpose-built training centre in the rural countryside of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire - some local travel to and from the training centre may be required for weekly shopping trips and collecting/dropping off clients. This is a working training centre therefore you must be comfortable with dogs in the workplace.

The basic hours for the role are 22.5 hours per week, normally 3 days per week however hours will vary depending on charity activities. Some work may include evenings (up to 6.30pm) and weekends to support with on-site training courses for our clients. Working hours will be agreed on a 4-weekly basis. Time off in lieu or overtime pay will be available as appropriate for additional hours worked.

If this sounds like the right role for you, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.

All interviews will take place at our training centre.

We recognise the benefit of diverse experiences, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are a disability confident committed employer.

You may also have experience in the following: Domestic Team Leader, Housekeeping Assistant, Housekeeper, Housekeeping, Cleaner, Cleaning Assistant, Cleaning Operative, Hospitality Assistant, Cleaning Supervisor, Cleaning Manager. Catering assistant, etc.

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