Job description
The Role
Sovereign offer over 1,700 key worker homes to a range of NHS staff, other key workers and students. Over 6,000 customers stay with us each year, from a single night to those looking for a more permanent home. Our accommodation at Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucester Royal Hospital offers 8 on call rooms to doctors who need to stay overnight.
Our current position is for a part time Housekeeper working 9 hours a week. You will be working 4.5 hours on Saturday and Sunday, we can be flexible with the start times. You will be travelling between our sites at Cheltenham and Gloucester making the on call rooms and communal areas ready for the next customer. The travel time is included in your working hours.
The starting salary is £10.90 per hour.
What we're looking for
As a Housekeeper you will be changing beds and cleaning bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms. There are additional task to complete when the on call rooms are not being used. You will be working on your own with full support and training from the Key Worker Team.
You will be able to:
- Confidently work on your own
- Think on your feet and solve problems as they arise
- Be motivated to do a good job for our customers
- Have experience of housekeeping or cleaning
- Due to the travel involved you will need to have your own transport.
This role will be subject to a DBS Check
What we offer you
Some of our benefits include:
- £450 yearly flexible benefit pot to use against benefits of your choice
- Flexible working
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
- A chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
- A generous pension scheme matching up to 12%
- Life cover as soon as you join us
- You will be a part of our Recognition scheme where you can be gifted retail vouchers
- A range of wellbeing discounts including Gym Memberships
- A wide selection of other benefits available
About us
Sovereign provides 60,000 homes across the south and south west of England and the Isle of Wight. We're driven by our social purpose with residents at the very heart of everything we do. We build homes, provide great services but also invest in long term sustainability, creating great places to live in partnership with our residents.
While we're a not-for-profit organisation with every penny reinvested in homes and services, we are also a major business. With the financial standing of a FTSE-250 business, we combine our financial and organisational strength, along with funding from government, banking and capital markets, to maximise our social impact.
What we do makes a real difference to people's lives and by joining us you can share the satisfaction of doing something that really matters. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at Sovereign. Have a look at our careers site to learn more about us and our values.