Housekeeper

About Us

St Michael's Hospice is nestled in the stunning Herefordshire countryside, in a state-of-the-art facility. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, a transferrable NHS pension or you can enrol onto our own Hospice pension. We offer Life Assurance, a superb working environment and facility, generous study leave allowance, discounts with local suppliers, individualised training needs analysis, advanced communication skills training, employee counselling service, free tea & coffee, a friendly & welcoming work environment and 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays. We are one of the top 100 best not for profit organisations to work for and have been caring to make a difference, to patients living with a terminal illness and their families, across Herefordshire and beyond for 40 years.

About the job

We are seeking to recruit 2 Housekeepers to work 15 hours per week! Based at our Bartestree site (HR1 4HA), the shifts are 0600-1130 (5 hours paid, 30 minute unpaid break)
Please be aware that the site offers free parking!
Joining the facilities team, the purpose of this position to maintain the hospice to highest standards. Completing day to day cleaning tasks as well as more detailed deep cleans, our Housekeeping team will work to ensure our sites are kept clean for all members of the public and service users, as well as ensuring excellent hygiene levels to upstand infection control.
If you are based at our Bartestree site the position will include contact with service users, therefore offers of employment will subject to satisfactory DBS checks.
Both sites no matter the type of service will include contact with the public in some form, therefore a friendly individual who is confident in sensitive situations is the ideal candidate. There is also some flexibility towards how hours are worked across the week, this can be discussed in further detail at interview stage.
*This role is on a 7 day service, therefore weekend working will be required. This is on a rotational shift pattern*
Weekend Enhancements are as follows:
Saturday payment at basic salary + 33.33%
Sunday payment at basic salary + 66.66%

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £12.60-£12.84 per hour

Expected hours: 15 per week

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Canteen
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Work Location: In person