Housekeeping Manager (Monday to Friday)

Job Introduction

Are you ready for a challenge? Are you a highly capable experienced Housekeeping Manager with exceptional team management skills? If so – we want to hear from you!

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your career in a prestigious environment. Reading Blue Coat enjoys a beautiful setting in the Thames-side village of Sonning, four miles outside the centre of Reading and covers 46 acres of land.  As Housekeeping Manager, you will manage the delivery of housekeeping services for this highly prestigious Independent School.  With strong attention to detail and a passion for high service standards, you will ensure that we deliver an efficient and high quality cleaning operation.

This is a high profile Independent school contract and will therefore provide the opportunity to showcase your leadership skills and develop within a growing business.

This role is primarily Monday to Friday - you will plan your working hours around the team you will be managing.

This role is subject to Safer Recruitment checks and the successful applicant will be required to complete a DBS.

Role Responsibility

• Efficient management of housekeeping service, including cleaning communal areas, classrooms, offices, sport areas (changing/shower areas and gym) and function rooms plus laundry.
• Effectively lead a housekeeping team to deliver an outstanding service to client, customers and students.
• Liaise with the General Services Manager to review services and ensure we are maintaining high standard as per service level agreement, Company policy and current legislation.
• Control and monitor the financial performance of the housekeeping department and maintain costs within pre-budgeted targets.
• Set and manage cleaning rotas and holidays, ensuring the cleaning service runs efficiently
• In conjunction with HR and the General Services Manager, monitor staff sickness and undertake necessary procedures to reduce absence levels.
• Establish and maintain satisfactory relationships with individuals at all levels within the Company and the Client organisation.
• Implement and maintain the Statutory and Company standards of hygiene, health and safety and take any action as is necessary.

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous experience in a housekeeping/cleaning management role, ideally from a Schools, Hotels or equivalent background
• Good cleaning procedural knowledge
• Experience of leading a housekeeping team in a similar environment
• Hands on approach
• Good financial awareness
• Good administrative skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of Food Hygiene and Health & Safety

Package Description

£25,900 - £30,000pa depending on experience

Great benefits including use of swimming pool and gym, free parking and free lunch!!

40hrs pw Monday to Friday with flexibility to cover early morning and late evening

Location: Reading Blue Coat School, Holme Park, Reading

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance, free will writing, life assurance, 24hrs GP access and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave.

We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.