JOB TITLE: Housekeeping Assistant
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: Site Services
HOURS: 20 hours per week, worked over 4 days on a 7 day rota
SALARY: £12,698.67 £12,887.47 for 20 hours a week (£12.21 - £12.39 per hour) depending on experience, plus 30% weekend enhancement
CLOSING DATE: 15 September 2025
INTERVIEW DATE: 23 September 2025
Are you a motivated individual and do your housekeeping skills match our high standards? We have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly Housekeeping Team.
All our Housekeeping Assistants play a fundamental role in the delivery of outstanding care by ensuring the Hospice is safe and clean, and making our environment feel comfortable for our patients and their loved ones.
You will be responsible for cleaning patient rooms and supporting with our in-house laundry service. You will also conduct routine cleaning of public areas and office space, in addition to regular planned deep cleaning, and dealing with emergencies, such as spills.
You will ideally have experience in housekeeping, cleaning, hospitality or a healthcare role, specifically in an inpatient or community setting, but more importantly you will have the ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently. You will have effective communication skills, a flexible approach, a keen eye for detail and have a positive, enthusiastic approach.
You must be motivated, dependable and will enjoy meeting and working with people in a caring environment.
This role is offered on a part time basis, working 20 hours per week, worked over 4 days from Monday to Sunday. Working hours will be either 7.30am-1pm or 1pm-6.30pm, with a 30 minute unpaid break. In addition to your salary, you will benefit from a generous enhanced pay rate for working your share of some weekends and bank holidays.
When you join St Catherines, youll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something youd find fulfilling, please apply today.
Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:
- 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
- Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
- Day off for volunteering
- Day off for moving house
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye test vouchers
- Generous Pension Up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension
- Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
- Life Assurance 4x basic salary
- Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
- Flu Jabs
- Counselling Offering
- Discounted Gym
- Schwartz rounds
- Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
- Career pathway and progression
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We are located in Grace Holland Avenue, Pease Pottage, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 9SL.
For a full job description, please click here.
If this role sounds like it could be for you, please apply now.
Please upload either your CV or the St Catherines Hospice application form where it asks you to upload your application form, there is no need to complete both.
If you dont have a CV and would like to complete our application for, this can be found here.
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If you require any additional information or would like to discuss this role further, please give us a call on 01293 447353.
