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Housekeeping Assistants

THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
Part-time
26th May 2026
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  07.05.26

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint Housekeeping Assistants to work part time (4 or 5 hours a day, 5 days a week) in our our busy, friendly Housekeeping team, providing a first class service for our college community.

Working as part of the busy Housekeeping team to ensure a high standard of cleanliness is achieved and maintained throughout the college.

The ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

  • An ability or aptitude to clean and service college rooms using agreed methods and procedures: ensuring a high standard of cleanliness is achieved and maintained at all times.
  • Good communication skills are essential as the nature of the role is customer facing and will involve contact with students, Fellows, visitors, conference guests and work colleagues.
  • Be able to manage their own workload and work to deadlines which is particularly important during busy conference periods when our award winning B&B serviceis in place.

Working arrangements and salary

  • Competitive annual salary of £13.45 per hour
  • The successful candidates may be deployed to work across any College property (within the city of Cambridge), depending on the needs of the department.

Please click here to view the full job description for this position.

Please refer to the 'join our team' page for our full range of staff benefits.

Application process

To apply, please submit a completed application form and send it along with a covering letter, outlining your suitability for the role. Please also complete and submit an 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 Tuesday 26 May 2026 however we will be screening applications as they are received and may interview whilst the advert is live so you are encouraged to apply early.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications or fill the position before the closing date.