Head of Accommodation & Housekeeping

Are you an experienced and commercially astute manager, area manager, or operations lead in the hotel or care home industry, seeking an exciting new challenge in Cambridge?

Kameo Recruitment is excited to be partnering with a reputable educational institution in Cambridge to recruit a Head of Accommodation & Housekeeping. In this pivotal role, you will lead and manage the accommodation and housekeeping function to deliver an efficient and consistently excellent service ensuring that everything is presented at its very best, and to create a welcoming, clean and well-kept environment for all.

As well as managing a small team You will also be responsible for ensuring that its legal, environmental and health and safety obligations for the operations are met.

The areas of responsibilities will include: -

• Accommodation – Managing the Accommodation Manager who has administrative responsibility for the accommodation service for all students, members, their guests and visitors
• Housekeeping - Managing 2 deputies you will develop and oversee the housekeeping operations across all sites including the regular inspections, audits and developing the long-term strategy and implementation.
• Furniture and furnishing requests including internal room & office moves, purchasing and installing of furniture
• Team Management & Leadership – setting performance goals, carry out appraisals, team meetings, training & development of staff, support recruitment and onboarding
• Finance – Producing and delivering of investment, maintenance and development budgets, develop a framework of preferred suppliers, regularly analyse internal and external spend.
• Health & Safety – Developing and implementing a health a safety plan & culture, ensuring legal compliance and necessary training is carried out.

Requirements for the Head of Accommodation & Housekeeping

• Must come from a managerial position within the hotel, care home or accommodation industry
• Have solid experience of managing a small team and leading from the front.
• Qualification in hospitality management, operations or equivalent ideally with an NVQ Level 3 in accommodation or housekeeping.
• Experience of budgeting, forecasting and budget management
• You will have a confident and positive outlook with a strong sense of personal responsibility and resilience
• Excellent organisational skills are a must as well as the ability to forward plan and prioritise
• Excellent written & verbal communication to all levels of staff

Hours of work: Full time, 100% on site

Excellent benefits including 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays), company pension, private medical insurance, various social events as well as a wide range of sporting facilities available including the use of a gym. Car parking is normally available, although not guaranteed.

If you are interested in finding out more about this position, please contact Claudine for a chat on (phone number removed) or apply now.

If you have not received a response within 3-5 working days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Kameo Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment agency for this permanent vacancy.