Title:  General Assistant

Sanctuary Students provide safe and secure accommodation to thousands of students around the country. We believe that our strength lies in our dedicated staff who help students with their everyday needs.

General Assistant

Temporary Position from May to September

Glasgow - covering Kelvinhaugh Residences and Murano Street Student Village

£11.44 per hour

20 hours and 16 hours per week available

Our residents want to live in clean, pleasant surroundings and your role is to make sure they do. As an important member of the team, you will ideally have cleaning experience in a hospitality or residential environment, but just as important is your willingness to help other team members or residents. 

The role of General Assistant will include:

• Providing high quality cleaning services for bedrooms, kitchen and communal areas
• Preparation of rooms including changing and making of beds, ensuring rooms are ready for vacation guests
• Ensuring the safety and comfort of residents at all times

As important members of the team, you will ideally have some cleaning and customer service experience, but just as important is your willingness to help other team members and residents.

A flexible approach is required as you will work 5 days over 7 including some weekends and evenings.

Come along to one of our Open Days, bring along your CV and meet the staff from both sites, learn more about the role and apply!

1st open day – Wednesday 10th April 2024 – 9am until 4pm (Location- Cairncross House, 20 Kelvinhaugh Place, G3 8NH)

2nd open day – Wednesday 17th April 2024 – 1pm until 8pm (Location- Murano Street Student Village, 13 Caithness Street, G20 7SB)

• Information and requirements will be provided for each site on the day – Murano Street Student Villages, Kelvinhaugh Residences
• Short Interviews will be held at the open day
• A CV and Identification to be brought along by any interested candidates

Why work for us?

Sanctuary Students manages accommodation for over 11,500 students across England and Scotland.  We work in partnership with universities to provide cost-effective facilities management and support services, as well as providing specifically designed and purpose built accommodation direct to students across the UK. We offer a range of accommodation from shared flats to self-contained apartments in some of the biggest university towns and cities in the UK, including London, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.

Our Benefits    

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays pro rata
• A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary
• Life Assurance
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans  
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme

Closing Date: 1 May 2024

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
Sanctuary Students is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.