Housekeeper in St Helens

Weekly Hours: 16 hours per week – times to be discussed at interview.

Your Housing Group has a fabulous opportunity for a Housekeeper at Pennington Lodge. Ideal for someone who is passionate about supporting vulnerable people, to join our highly engaged team and provide a professional and reliable cleaning service. Pennington Lodge is a homeless family lodge, offering customers temporary accommodation alongside the opportunity to make progress in their lives, build resilience and meet their aspirations.

As our Housekeeper, you will carry out a range of high standard cleaning duties to all indoor (offices and communal areas) and outdoor areas of the building, providing a clean and hygienic environment for residents, staff and visitors. You will ensure our flats provide residents with the highest standards of accommodation, and you will be responsible for the cleaning of vacant flats on scheme, washing of bedding, preparing the flat for new occupants in a timely fashion.

As our Housekeeper, you will:

• Be committed to the principles of customer care.
• Have an awareness of health and safety including COSHH.
• Be able to work with a minimum of supervision.

What will my working week look like? The hours of work are 16 hours per week between Monday and Friday, excluding weekends and bank holidays.

What will I be responsible for doing? First and foremost, you will be responsible for the first impression of our scheme to customers, staff, visitors and other professionals. Other responsibilities of our Housekeeper will be:

• Reliability.
• Ability to manage own workload.
• Strong work ethic & attention to detail.
• Knowledge of cleaning products & relevant procedures (such as COSHH & PPE).

In return, we offer £11,190.40 for a 16-hour week, and up to 25 days (pro-rata if part time) annual leave (holidays also increase with length of service) plus Bank Holidays. Our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance. On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments), an option to buy up to one week's further holiday, an annual volunteering day, and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford. As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year. We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability; if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview. Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers; however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application.