Housekeeping Porter

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint two full time Housekeeping Porters to join our busy, friendly Housekeeping team, providing a first class service for our college community. 

The ideal candidate will be:

• Practical and proactive with a demonstrated ability to identify problems and use their own initiative to develop and implement solutions.
• Courteous with a professional attitude and a demonstrated ability to want to deliver a quality customer service to all.
• Responsible for co-ordinating a range of cleaning and waste management tasks as well as the safe transit of items, room moves and conference/events set up.

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Working arrangements

The full time hours for this post are 37.5 hours per week, to be worked 5 days out of 7, including weekends.

Staff Benefits

• Competitive annual salary of FTE £20,880 pa.
• Holiday entitlement is 25 days per annual leave year, in addition to Public Holidays for full time employees, pro rata for part-time employees.
• Full training will be provided including COSHH and manual handling in addition to other professional development opportunities.
• A free lunch in the College Dining Hall (when on main site) for those whose hours of work encompass a meal break. 
• Generous defined contribution pension provision with salary sacrifice arrangements.
• Access to the College’s Cycle to Work voucher scheme.
• Opportunities for training and development.
• A range of family friendly benefits, including generous maternity and paternity benefits above statutory entitlements. 
• Use of a small on-site gym at a subsidised rate. 
• Access to purchase the College’s private Health Care scheme.
• Access to staff wellbeing and employee assistance support.
• Free life assurance (death in service benefit) with probate and bereavement support.

Application process

In order to apply for one of these posts, please submit a completed application form and send it along with a covering letter, outlining which role you are interested in, along with details of your suitability for the role.  Please also complete and submit a completed Equality and Diversity monitoring form.  All documents should be emailed to:  recruitment@caths.cam.ac.uk

The closing date for completed applications is 9am on Monday 9 May 2022.

We reserve the right to close the application window if we receive a high number of applications so you are encouraged to apply early.