Part Time Housekeeping Assistants Newport, Newport, Wales
Job description
Part Time Housekeeping Assistants
Estates & Facilities
Harper Adams University based in Newport, Shropshire is looking to recruit a Part Time Housekeeping Assistant. The successful candidate will be required to undertake the following responsibilities to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness throughout the University.
- Collect and bag up all refuse and take to collection point or bin areas (not in student residential areas).
- All floor maintenance including the use of suitable machinery i.e. carpets, hard floors.
- Damp wipe all furniture, fittings, ledges, pipes etc.
- Clean all toilets, wash rooms, bath and shower rooms.
- Replenish all toilet requisites i.e. hand towels, toilet tissue, bin liners etc. Change shower curtains as necessary.
- Cleaning duties and protocol as specified for residential and non-residential areas.
- Participate in training courses as required.
- To work as an integral part of the cleaning team.
- Maintaining materials, equipment and storage areas in a safe, clean and tidy condition.
- Report immediately any faults in the fabric of the building or in cleaning equipment either to the supervisory/management team or via Request book
- Ensure that safe working methods are adhered to along with all relevant University policies
- To undertake such other periodical duties as may reasonably be requested by the Housekeeping Manager.
The hours of work fall into the following shift patterns :
4.00am – 8.00am or 5.00am – 9.00am (teaching areas / offices – x 52 wks)
4.00am–7.00am/5.00am–8.00am or 6.00am – 9.00am (teaching/office areas x 52wks)
9am – 2pm (Residential area x 52wks)
Please state in the online application which hours you are interested in working.
If you have any queries or questions or for an informal discussion please email [email protected]
Harper Adams University is one of the premier UK Higher Education institutions focused on the land-based and food supply chain sector. With around 2,800 undergraduate students, plus those completing postgraduate, research and CPD programmes, Harper Adams University is the UK's largest single provider of higher education for these subjects. Programmes fall into eleven broad subject areas – but none operate in isolation. Community and collaboration are key at Harper Adams, meaning everyone, including staff, students and industry partners, benefits from a close network of knowledge and opportunity exchange. Situated in Shropshire, the campus and the surrounding area provide an excellent working and living environment for staff and students alike.
Harper Adams is consistently positioned highly in a range of national ratings, performance measures and league tables. The University has been the highest performing modern university in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide for the last four years, climbing to 17th place in the overall league table. In the 2020 guide Harper Adams was named Modern University of the Year and runner-up University of the Year. In the 2019 Whatuni? Student Choice Awards, based on student reviews, Harper Adams won the Student Support category for the fifth time – the only university to have taken the title since the awards began - and won the category for best job prospects for a fourth year running. In the 2020 QS World Rankings for Agriculture and Forestry published in March 2020, Harper Adams was ranked first in the UK for academic reputation and second in the world for its reputation with employers.
Harper Adams University is internationally recognised for the quality of its research, as evidenced by the Research Excellence Framework 2022. In order to maintain and uphold the high standards of our research, we continue to undertake initiatives to ensure that integrity, ethics and excellence are at the core of our research activities and fully embedded in our research culture.
