Domestic Assistant

Domestic Assistant (Full Time)

Join to apply for the Domestic Assistant (Full Time) role at University of Bath. As a Domestic Assistant, you’ll play a key role in helping students transition from living at home to fully independent living, ensuring that all our accommodation users have the best possible experience during their stay with us.

This role is 36.5 hours per week, working shifts from 9:00am–5:20pm Monday to Thursday and 9:00am–5:10pm on Friday. The role operates on a 5-over-7 rota. Cleaning is required in some areas at weekends; therefore, there is an expectation to work weekends on a rota basis. Weekend rota requirements apply mainly during the summer peak period.

• Cleaning accommodation areas
• Reporting maintenance issues
• Ensuring health and safety guidance is followed
• Acting as the face of the department by engaging with students and visitors

• Enjoy striving for high standards of customer service
• Love working as a team
• Be personable with a friendly approach

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days for a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, Linked In Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family‑friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest‑Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

• Campus Services New Starter bonus (£1,000) payable the month after successfully passing your six months’ probation.
• Campus Services Refer a Friend bonus, subject to terms and conditions.

We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact  Full details of this role can be found in the job description. The University of Bath is a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged.

We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under‑represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.