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Live in Housekeeper

2 months ago

North Walsham, United Kingdom Rural Recruitment East Anglia Full time

We are looking for a wonderful, live in Housekeeper / House Person to help support a lovely family of 4 in Norfolk.

**Hours**: 40 hours per week (including weekend work), to be agreed with the family

**Overall job purpose**

This full-time, live-in role, will require a flexible and practical approach. The role of the Housekeeper is to provide a pro-active, consistent general housekeeping service to the family.

**Job description**

The following is intended to provide guidance as to duties but it is not exhaustive. You will from time to time be required to undertake other activities of a similar nature that fall within your capabilities as directed by the principle.
- To ensure that the family home is tidy and organised at all times.
- To manage the 2x part-time cleaners, assisting with deep cleans from time to time.
- To carry out all the laundry, ironing and bed linen changes for the principle and his children, when they are at home.
- To shop for the household food, cleaning and other domestic items.
- To cook for the principle, his children and any guests, as required.
- To ensure that you always remain aware and alert to the family’s needs, responding to those needs in a timely, polite and efficient manner, even when busy.
- To always work with the utmost discretion and sensitivity with regards to the family and their guests.
- To ensure that the house is ready for any events or entertaining, including preparing guest bedrooms, if required.
- To carry out daily household chores such as loading and unloading the dishwasher and emptying the bins.
- To be flexible and responsive to support other members of the Estate team, so that a high level of service is consistently delivered, and we operate as one team.
- To identify and alert house owner of any maintenance issues arising concerning fixtures and fittings in the home.
- To replenish log baskets and lay fires, as required.
- To walk and feed the dogs, as required.
- To feed the chickens and put them away at night, as required.
- To undertake any other relevant activities or errands which fall under the general scope of this role.

**Personal Qualities**
- Possess previous housekeeping experience, ideally in a private household.
- Be friendly, reliable, hardworking, discrete and trustworthy.
- Be flexible, energetic and pro-active.
- Be able to work as a team player as well as a stand alone employee
- Be good at taking direction but also able to work under your own initiative and solve problems.
- Have a genuine commitment to work to the highest possible standards with excellent attention to detail.
- Have a positive attitude and an ability to work calmly under pressure.
- Have the right to live and work in the UK
- Possess a full, clean UK driving licence and ideally have their own car (due to the rural location of family home)
- Be a non-smoker.

**Other**

Weekend and bank holiday working will be required.

**Package**
- Competitive annual salary
- Accommodation with a private garden for the employee and a partner. One well-behaved dog is also permitted. Water rates and WIFI are included. Electricity, heating oil and council tax are excluded.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- This is a live in role, can you just confirm that you are looking to live in and who would be joining you including dependents and pets please?
- Do you have a notice period to work?

**Experience**:

- Private Cleaning: 5 years (required)
- Private Housekeeping: 5 years (required)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

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