Housekeeping Supervisor

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint a Housekeeping Supervisor, to join our busy, friendly Housekeeping team, providing a first class service for our college community. 

The ideal candidate will be able to:

• Support the organisation of general day-to-day cleaning of the College buildings, including working closely with the Housekeeping Manager and Assistant Housekeeping Manager to maintain stock levels.
• Undertake regular checks and cleaning audits across all sites, giving feedback and refresher training to Housekeeping Assistants where appropriate.
• Put forward ideas for improvement of processes/products or actual achievements to the Housekeeping Manager and support implementation if required.
• Support the team with additional cleaning support when needed.
• Participate in recruitment as required including the induction and training  of new members of staff.
• Act as first port of call for the team and escalate to management when required.
• Use IT systems including Outlook, Excel and our room booking and ticketing systems to promote good communications with services users.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and problem solving skills. The nature of the job will involve direct contact with students, Fellows, visitors and work colleagues therefore these skills are essential.
• Be able to manage their own workload and work to deadlines which is particularly important during busy conference periods when our award winning B&B service is in place.

The successful applicant will be required to be a designated first aider (training will be provided).

Working arrangements and salary

• Full time hours of work are 37.5 hours per week.  9-5pm each day, to be worked across the week (to include some weekend working and change to working hours during conference periods to ensure cover is in place throughout the day).  
• Competitive annual salary of £27,123.80 pa.
• Please click here to view the full job description for this position.

Please refer to the 'join our team' page for our full range of staff benefits.

Application process
In order to apply, please complete our application form and send it along with a covering letter, outlining your suitability for the role. Please also complete and submit an Equality and Diversity monitoring form.  

All documents should be emailed to: recruitment@caths.cam.ac.uk.  Informal questions regarding this opportunity can be directed to the Housekeeping Manager, Clare Butler at: housekeeping.manager@caths.cam.ac.uk

The closing date for completed applications is noon on Friday 10 January 2025. 

We reserve the right to close the application window early, if we receive a high number of applications so early applications are encouraged.