About us:
St Wilfrid's Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an 'outstanding' provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.

We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.

We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.

The Role:

Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid's Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment.

We are looking for a part-time housekeeper for 15 hours a week. Working as part of a team, in a professional and courteous manner you will ensure that patient bedrooms and bathrooms are cleaned to the highest standards and undertake laundry duties, including replenishment of linen, cleaning of our public areas including public and staff toilets.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate knowledge of housekeeping, cleaning and customer care, although training will be given for specifics relating to the position.

Benefits included:

• We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Employee assistance programmes
• Additional training opportunities
• Supportive working environment
• We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; part time hours.

If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team on #removed# or email

If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Andrew Burrell, Head of Estates and Facilities, on #removed# or at email

Please note that CV's will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability.

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.