Job Title: Head Housekeeper
Location: Garrowby Estate, York
Salary: £25,000 – £29,000 pa dependent on experience
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time, 40 hours per week.
Garrowby Hall is the principal house of a traditional agricultural estate, located 13 miles east of York.
The Role:
We are looking for an organised and experienced cleaner to run a busy, happy household and lead our housekeeping team. This is a hands-on role which requires the candidate to be flexible, with good attention to detail. The position will involve:
- All types of cleaning including washing up, laundry and ironing on a daily basis.
- Food shopping and management of the pantry, fridges and freezers
- Ensuring the house is stocked with toiletries, cleaning products and essentials
- Linen cupboard management and liaising with the laundry company
- Noticing and reporting defects and maintenance issues
- Supervising other housekeeping and occasional casual staff
- Working closely with the family and PA to plan and deliver parties and events
- Awareness of family and guest movements plus anticipation of requirements
The ideal candidate will be a flexible and positive person who is happy to be involved with:
- Occasional childcare during the school holidays
- Implementation and revision of household manuals, deep clean plans and inventories
- Front of house tasks such as greeting guests
- Wardrobe management for 3 pre-teen children including occasional simple sewing (e.g. nametapes), and packing/unpacking for holidays
- Infrequent family-only food preparation
The successful applicant will be required to fulfil the following criteria:
- Experienced cleaner with good product/fabric/surface knowledge
- Excellent communication skills and a good team member
- Excellent practical organisation skills
- Full UK driving licence
- IT literate (e.g. email, online shopping)
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Attention to detail and thoroughness
- A discreet, reliable and polite character
- Child and pet friendly
- As the role is based at Garrowby Hall, it will be necessary to feel relaxed in a small, rural community
Details:
You will be working alongside our longstanding housekeeper and liaising closely with the caretaking and groundskeeping team, with support from the PA with staff administration, invoices and other planning/ management tasks.
This is a full-time role, with some flexibility required (and given) as to hours worked – generally weekdays 0800-1630 with half an hour for lunch, but occasional weekend work may be required. The successful applicant will be expected to commence work as soon as possible. Please indicate your salary expectations in your covering email.
Benefits:
- The successful applicant will be entitled to join the employer’s pension scheme and the employer will contribute 6% of salary.
- Holiday entitlement is 29 working days including Public Holidays.
- A Cycle-to-Work scheme is offered.
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