Head Housekepper
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Weybridge
- Salary
- 27500.00 - 29500.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 02 Jun 2022
- Closes
- 29 Jun 2022
- Sectors
- Health, Nursing & Social Care
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Creating spotless, hospitable and comfortable care home where residents love to live is vital.
As a Head Housekeeper you'll be central to making our home a palace for residents, their guests and visitors alike.
You'll lead and supervise the hostess, housekeeping and laundry teams to ensure the home meets the highest standards of hospitality and cleanliness at all times. Daily tasks might include updating the team rota to ensure we're fully staffed, liaising with residents about the best times to clean their rooms.
Above all, you'll ensure residents and their guests don't want for anything and that everything runs smoothly 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Are you an experienced head housekeeper - you could be from any sector - and keen to take on a role with more meaning? Are you a great supervisor with a positive 'can do' attitude and superb people skills?
Do you have a warm personality and great sense of humour that makes you popular with everyone? If so, you will get flexible hours and a competitive rate of pay that will add sparkle to your career.
Responsible To Home Manager Key Responsibilities
• Prepare and maintain a 4 week Rota, ensuring the Housekeeping and Hostess teams are adequately staffed at all times.
• To instruct the Housekeeping team in their role and required duties / allocation.
• To instruct the Hostess team in their required duties.
• To provide hospitality services to residents and their guests. Serving meals, snacks and beverages at their request in the location of their choice.
• Daily to ensure all displayed menus and meal information throughout the home is correct and up to date.
• To consult with residents on a regular basis to ensure that their needs and choices are being met. Obtain feedback from residents and staff regarding cleaning and laundry quality to ensure that we are meeting the needs of the home and our residents at all times.
• To ensure that all cleaning and laundry consumables are ordered from current nominated suppliers in line with Company purchasing policy.
• To ensure stock takes are carried out at the end of each month.
• To work within agreed budget guidelines on staff costs and consumables and to co-operate in any action necessary so as to keep to budget.
• To implement and maintain cleaning schedules for the entire home and ensure that they are adhered too.
• To ensure cleaning of all areas of the home are to the highest standard, including grounds.
• Establish and maintain a rapport with individual residents and agree a convenient time to carry out cleaning of their personal rooms.
• To organise deep cleaning duties when required.
• To ensure the laundry of residents clothing is to the highest standard, including ironing.
• Ensure the Laundry team collect and return laundry to the correct area of the home on a regular basis, and put away personal clothing of residents in a neat and tidy manner.
• Ensure that all residents' wardrobes and clothing drawers are kept clean, neat and tidy
As a Head Housekeeper you'll be central to making our home a palace for residents, their guests and visitors alike.
You'll lead and supervise the hostess, housekeeping and laundry teams to ensure the home meets the highest standards of hospitality and cleanliness at all times. Daily tasks might include updating the team rota to ensure we're fully staffed, liaising with residents about the best times to clean their rooms.
Above all, you'll ensure residents and their guests don't want for anything and that everything runs smoothly 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Are you an experienced head housekeeper - you could be from any sector - and keen to take on a role with more meaning? Are you a great supervisor with a positive 'can do' attitude and superb people skills?
Do you have a warm personality and great sense of humour that makes you popular with everyone? If so, you will get flexible hours and a competitive rate of pay that will add sparkle to your career.
Responsible To Home Manager Key Responsibilities
• Prepare and maintain a 4 week Rota, ensuring the Housekeeping and Hostess teams are adequately staffed at all times.
• To instruct the Housekeeping team in their role and required duties / allocation.
• To instruct the Hostess team in their required duties.
• To provide hospitality services to residents and their guests. Serving meals, snacks and beverages at their request in the location of their choice.
• Daily to ensure all displayed menus and meal information throughout the home is correct and up to date.
• To consult with residents on a regular basis to ensure that their needs and choices are being met. Obtain feedback from residents and staff regarding cleaning and laundry quality to ensure that we are meeting the needs of the home and our residents at all times.
• To ensure that all cleaning and laundry consumables are ordered from current nominated suppliers in line with Company purchasing policy.
• To ensure stock takes are carried out at the end of each month.
• To work within agreed budget guidelines on staff costs and consumables and to co-operate in any action necessary so as to keep to budget.
• To implement and maintain cleaning schedules for the entire home and ensure that they are adhered too.
• To ensure cleaning of all areas of the home are to the highest standard, including grounds.
• Establish and maintain a rapport with individual residents and agree a convenient time to carry out cleaning of their personal rooms.
• To organise deep cleaning duties when required.
• To ensure the laundry of residents clothing is to the highest standard, including ironing.
• Ensure the Laundry team collect and return laundry to the correct area of the home on a regular basis, and put away personal clothing of residents in a neat and tidy manner.
• Ensure that all residents' wardrobes and clothing drawers are kept clean, neat and tidy