Summary
DAILY HOUSEKEEPER/COOK (MUST ALREADY LIVE LOCAL)
NR CIRENCESTER -SAPPERTON
SALARY: £50,000 PA
Monday to Friday
9am to 6pm
Essential Criteria – Proactive, experienced country house sole housekeeper. Confident family cook. Organised, child and animal friendly, ability to work unsupervised. Love the countryside and confident driver with own car essential. Longevity in previous positions.
Lovely long-term vacancy for a country-loving candidate to join this fun, high-energy, informal family at their home in beautiful rural countryside between Cirencester and Stroud. The village is approx. 4 miles from Cirencester. This vacancy would suit an experienced “county house” housekeeper who enjoys cooking and is pro active, well organised and can
really manage the day to day running of the household.
Other duties will include:
Day to day house management, ensuring smooth daily running of
the household, organising contractors, booking services when needed, ordering oil lamps, logs, keeping on top of food shopping, freezers and larder contents. You will need to deal with provisioning and use local suppliers, there is a superb butcher and fishmonger locally and farm produce available for fresh ingredients.
This is an informal home and the family are neat and tidy people and very hands-on. There are 3 adolescence in the household, but a part time nanny is employed. You do need to be adolescence friendly and be willing to assist with school runs occasionally. A fun, flexible housekeeper who really enjoys being part of a busy active family. The current housekeeper has been with the family for 10 years, so longevity in positions is essential.
The daily working hours are 9.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday with flexibility to cover occasional wends when required. 2 days off per week
Salary £50,000. Driver with own car essential. Only candidates looking to stick around need apply.
