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Domestic Assistant
WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST AND OTHER TRUST FUNDS ADMINISTERED BY THE WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUSTEE
Allen Hall Seminary, London
Full-time
23rd January 2026

Domestic Assistant Allen Hall Seminary (Job Ref: 832-FAC)

£14.80 per hour | Permanent|21 hours per week | 21 hours per week (Monday, Thursday and Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm) | Location: Allen Hall Seminary, London|Closing Date 23 January 2026|Interview Date w/c 2 February 2026

Domestic Assistant Job Description

Allen Hall Seminary is seeking a reliable and committed Domestic Assistant to join our friendly Domestic Services team. This is an important role supporting the day-to-day life of our Seminary, helping to ensure a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for seminarians, resident priests, staff, and visitors.

About the Role

As a Domestic Assistant, you will play a key part in maintaining high standards of cleanliness across the Seminary. Working under the guidance of the Domestic Supervisor, you will carry out a range of housekeeping and laundry duties, supporting both residential life and, during the summer months, the operation of the Seminary hostel.

Key Responsibilities

  • Cleaning and servicing guest rooms, communal areas, classrooms, offices, staff rooms, and kitchenettes

  • Servicing priests’ flats, including kitchens, bathrooms, and bed making

  • Collecting, laundering, ironing, and replacing personal and house laundry

  • Maintaining laundry areas and equipment

  • Undertaking minor repairs to laundry and house linen

  • Preparing refreshments for meetings and conferences

  • Supporting hostel operations during July and August, including room preparation, daily servicing, laundry, and occasional weekend or bank holiday working

  • Assisting with dining room set-up on a cover basis, when required

  • Undertaking training and any other reasonable duties as needed

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

  • Takes pride in great presentation

  • Reliable, organised, and able to work with attention to detail

  • Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team

  • Physically fit with a positive, can-do attitude

  • Respectful, kind, and able to communicate well with a wide range of people

  • Willing to work in support of the mission, values, and ethos of the Catholic Church

Previous experience in a similar domestic or housekeeping role is essential. Experience within a faith-based, charitable, or non-profit organisation is desirable but not essential.

Our Values

At Allen Hall Seminary, we are guided by Catholic social teaching and place human dignity at the heart of all we do. Our core values are Competence, Reliability, Honesty, Perseverance, and Love, and we expect all staff to work in a way that reflects and respects these principles.

Allen Hall Seminary is a Roman Catholic seminary where men train for the priesthood. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate behaviour that aligns with the values of this environment and shows respect for its Catholic ethos.