Sanctuary

General Assistant

Sanctuary  •  £24k/yr  •  Cambridge, GB (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

Sanctuary Students provide safe and secure accommodation to thousands of students around the country. We believe that our strength lies in our dedicated staff who help students with their everyday needs.

General Assistant Cleaner

  

Addenbrookes, Cambridge, CB2 0SQ

  

£23,566.01 per annum

  

32.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 08:00 – 15:15)

  

  

Do you have experience in housekeeping or cleaning different accommodation types? If so, we have the role for you. We’re recruiting a General Assistant, also known as a Cleaner, to join our onsite accommodation team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. 

  

Daily duties will include cleaning communal areas and void (empty) properties, weekly service cleaning of occupied properties and cleaning communal areas including kitchens, lounges & stairs. Joining a team of 20 you will also provide a housekeeping and bed making function, within on-call, patient, and relative accommodation. 

  

We are looking for someone with experience in cleaning or housekeeping and who can use their own initiative to deliver a high-quality cleaning service. 

  

The role of General Assistant will include:

  • Providing high quality cleaning services for bedrooms, kitchens, pathways, and communal areas 
  • Identifying and reporting any hazards and faults to ensure a safe environment is maintained 
  • Organising stores on site and carrying out checks of equipment, replacing when necessary 
  • Any other general tasks as required by management 

  

Skills and experiences:

  • Previous cleaning or housekeeping experience 
  • Practical experience in operating cleaning machinery 
  • Ability to work to deadlines, prioritise workloads and work on own initiative 
  • Experience of understanding simple verbal and written instructions and undertaking duties as requested 
  • Excellent customer service and communication skills 

  

Why work for us?

Sanctuary Students manages accommodation for over 11,500 students across England and Scotland. We work in partnership with universities to provide cost-effective facilities management and support services, as well as providing specifically designed and purpose-built accommodation direct to students across the UK. We offer a range of accommodation from shared flats to self-contained apartments in some of the biggest university towns and cities in the UK, including London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow. 

  

Our Benefits

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental, and financial health, and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering: 

  • 25 days leave (plus public holidays) pro rata 
  • A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary 
  • Life Assurance 
  • Employee Advice Service including counselling 
  • Cycle to Work Scheme 
  • Voluntary health plans 
  • Employee discounts 
  • Wellbeing support and tools 
  • Employee recognition scheme 

  

Job Reference:228715

  

We are only currently accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK.

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We might get a lot of applications so reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time.  Don’t miss out, please apply early.

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference.  We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission.  We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.

We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.

An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.

Sanctuary Students is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.

Sanctuary

About Sanctuary

We are Sanctuary.

We were set up more than 50 years ago and now provide housing and care in England and Scotland to more than a quarter of a million people, owning and managing around 120,000 units of accommodation. We exist to serve our customers and communities.

Our mission is to build affordable homes and sustainable communities where people choose to live.

We are a not-for-profit housing association, which means we don’t make profits for shareholders. Instead we invest all the income we make – every penny – into delivering on our social purpose.

We play our part in tackling the national housing crisis by building good quality affordable homes all over the UK. We build to a wide variety of needs and styles, with the aim of creating or adding to a sustainable community. Our regeneration projects transform communities by listening to residents and putting their needs first.

Social housing is at the core of what we do, and we believe secure, good quality accommodation can be the foundation that enables people to achieve their goals in life.

Industry
Nonprofit & NGOs
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Worcester, GB
Year Founded
1969
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