Accommodation Assistant

**Estate Management**

Full Time, Monday to Friday 37 hours each week. Temporary Maternity cover for up to one year.

**About this role**

We need a full time Housekeeper to join our Residential Services team based at Stockbridge Student Village, Chichester. The Housekeeper provides a professional, helpful and welcoming housekeeping service for the University’s accommodation. This people focused role ensures the University provides the best possible service to meet the accommodation needs and expectations of students and conference guests. During the summer period, the Housekeeper will assist the Conference Office to provide a successful and reliable hospitality service to conference delegates and Bed & Breakfast guests.

The Housekeeper’s duties include using electronic facilities management software to communicate work required, maintaining on-campus equipment inventories, completing room inspections and reports, day-to-day stock management for the accommodation and assist the Accommodation Officer with ensuring appropriate level of stock is maintained.

**About you**

**It’s vital you have excellent organisational skills and communication skills to ensure rooms and communal areas are clean and well maintained. Using your attention to detail skills you will report any deficiencies to the appropriate maintenance or cleaning teams.
**It’s essential that you have experience of working of housekeeping in a busy corporate environment including the supervision of facilities in relation to cleaning and maintenance and accomplished communication and interpersonal skills and can be empathic of student needs by providing positive and responsive advice to students regarding accommodation issues.**

**About the team**

**You will work within the team to strengthen the distinctiveness of the University’s student experience as high-quality, personalised, accessible and aspirational. We are a University that prides itself on our sense of community, including an excellent staff experience.
**In addition to your salary we offer a competitive reward package with a range of **staff benefits **and discounts which include**:

- **25 days paid annual leave, pro rata if applicable**:

- **Defined Benefit pension schemes via our providers the Local Government Pension or Teachers’ Pension Schemes. Your own monthly contributions are enhanced with employer contributions and a substantial automatic lump sum life cover scheme enhancement.**:

- **A paid closure period over the Christmas break is in addition to our generous holiday allowance with bank holidays too and an occupational sickness scheme.**:

- **There’s also an on-site gym; a cycle purchase salary sacrifice scheme; subsidised bus travel between our Bognor and Chichester campuses and Chichester town centre; 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme to support our staff and extensive personal / professional training opportunities throughout the year.
- **Closing Date: Thursday 03 August 2023**:

- **Interview Date: TBC
**_We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion at every level because we believe a diverse workforce benefits us all.
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