Head Housekeeper

**Hours**: 40** hours across 5 days per week**

**Salary**:£13.22 per hour**

**Atlas Hotels** is hiring a **Head Housekeeper** right now at the **Holiday Inn Express - Stirling**

Whilst previous experience of working in housekeeping in hotels would be useful, it’s not essential. If you join our friendly, enthusiastic and guest focused teams we can teach you all you need to know Our hotels offer enjoyable job roles with a huge amount of variety day to day.

Benefits include:

- Hotel rooms across our 58 hotels (Holiday Inn Express, Hampton by Hilton and Holiday Inn) at only £15 per night, with 50% off food and drink when staying for leisure
- Worldwide substantial employee discount at 5,000+ IHG Hotels across the globe
- A free stay worth £100 on your work anniversary every year plus a bonus cash payment as a ‘thank you’ for staying with Atlas Hotels
- Holiday allowance which increases with length of service
- Monthly cash rewards through our reward and recognition platform
- HSF Health Plan free for every employee, giving you money off dental/optical appointments and other health costs for you and your family
- Access to HSF Perkbox which provides deals and discounts from the biggest brands
- Online GP service, access to free counselling and wellness support with a 24 hour helpline
- Auto enrolment pension scheme through The Peoples Pension
- Employee referral programme paying out £500 for every great person you refer to us that passes their probation
- Employee of the Quarter programmes in every site and a prestigious annual awards ceremony
- A rota for the next 4 weeks, meaning you can work in hospitality but still have a life outside of work
- Free/discounted food when on shift
- Free car parking when on shift
- Friends and family hotel discounts

**So what does a Head Housekeeper do?**
- Lead and organise the Housekeeping team are in the right place at the right time, to enable a great experience to our guests
- Supervise, guide and motivate Housekeeping Assistants and Supervisors on the job
- Understand and role model the Atlas Values and associated behaviours
- Nurture a learning culture, coaching and developing others to success and managing underperformance appropriately
- Communicate effectively, ensuring that Housekeeping Assistants and Supervisors are aware of information that will affect their shift as well as Atlas updates and priorities
- Undertake effective job check ins with Housekeeping Assistants and Supervisors
- Support the Hotel Manager in ensuring that all new employees receive a warm ‘Atlas welcome’ and thorough induction
- Understand HR procedures and raise conduct and other such concerns to the HOM/ Hotel Manager

**Guest Experience**
- Deliver a great guest experience through ensuring the housekeeping operation/team runs smoothly and effectively, achieving KPIs as required.
- Monitor and supervise the work of the housekeeping team as and when required, in absence of the Head Housekeeper
- Undertake room checks as required - Take responsibility for the effective rostering of Housekeeping staff
- Communicate the daily tasks and priorities to Housekeeping Assistants at the request of the Head Housekeeper and in line with Company processes
- Be an active and effective team member, working together to achieve hotel goals - Monitoring any issues with rooms to other members of the team (eg Maintenance) as soon as possible, escalating on behalf of the team as necessary
- Ensuring the Housekeeping team receive full training for their roles and managing any issues through coaching and performance management
- Maintaining cleanliness, hygiene and Atlas standards in both public and private areas, taking pride in the hotel and its team
- Effectively manage complaints using our ‘service recovery’ principles - Understand and have a good knowledge of the products and services available at the hotel
- Understand guest satisfaction scores and maintain a good knowledge of hotel areas of focus
- Demonstrate good local knowledge and proactively provide this to guests when required

So why not? Click ‘apply’ now to become our Head Housekeeper and enter into a World of Opportunity