Hotel Head HousekeeperCategory: Business
Article posted by: Jon Richards
Housekeepers are responsible for ensuring that hotel rooms are always clean, tidy and ready for guests.
Their main tasks and activities also include:
Managing housekeeping staff, including setting rotas and carrying out training as needed.
Ensuring rooms are correctly serviced and cleaned to very high standards.
Completing all necessary paperwork and documentation.
Looking after budgets.
ensuring all health and safety regulations are observed.
Ensuring hazardous cleaning materials are used and stored correctly.
Taking care of lost property.
Changing bed linen and making beds.
Replacing towels.
Cleaning rooms, including vacuuming, dusting, polishing, emptying bins, cleaning windows, etc.
Washing up cups, glasses, plates, etc.
Restocking room supplies and mini bars, i.e. tea, coffee, biscuits, shampoo, soap, etc.
Checking mini bars to see what has been used.
Room preparation, including switching on lights, drawing curtains, etc.
Hotel work is not a 9 to 5 way to earn a living. Housekeepers can be on duty during evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Some live in their hotels which means they could be called upon to deal with hotel issues at any time of day or night.
In smaller hotels, Housekeepers can also be required to help out within the kitchen, bar, housekeeping, maintenance, leisure areas or storage areas.
The UK has an estimated 35000 hotels and guest houses of all sizes, located in just about every town or village. Some cater for holiday makers and others for short stay and business travellers.
Salaries for Housekeepers are around £10000 per year, a figure which can be boosted with tips.
Experience of catering and hospitality is also a great help, along with the ability to converse in more than one language.
It is possible for Housekeepers to be appointed via promotion from other hotel based jobs. In larger hotels, and hotels which are part of large chains, they can gain experience and undertake additional training to move up the ladder to management positions.
Suitable vacancies tend to be advertised in trade magazines or on specific hotel group websites.
Posted By: Jon Richards
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