Abbey Deputy Housekeeper
Iona Community, Blythswood New Town, Glasgow City
Abbey Deputy Housekeeper
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Iona Community, Blythswood New Town, Glasgow City
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 23 Oct | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
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Full Job Description
Join a diverse team, meet fascinating people from around the world, and engage in meaningful work in a place where spirituality, community, and purpose come together. If you might like an opportunity to step away from old routines, team working in a hands-on role, where you are appreciated and visible, and have a desire to serve, this could be your next chapter. As Deputy Housekeeper you would work closely as part of the Housekeeping Team to ensure that the guest accommodation and common areas of the properties on Iona, are kept clean and tidy to a high standard at all times. In the absence of the Housekeeper you would deputise, in many aspects of their role. You would have guest-facing interaction as, due to the way the Community works, the Housekeeping Team are regularly front and centre in interactions with our guests. This post contains an element of regulated work and as such is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and the post-holder will need to be or to become a member of Scotland s Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme. Due to the nature of this work, it will NOT be possible to consider candidates who do not already have the right to work in the United Kingdom The full Job Description can be found on our website iona.org.uk/about/vacancies Contract Start Date: 1st February 2025 Contract End Date: 31st October 2025, None specified
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The Iona Community is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions in the Church engaged together, and with people of goodwill across the world, in acting, reflecting and praying for justice, peace and the integrity of creation; convinced that the inclusive community we seek must be embodied in the community we practice.
Our mainland office is located in Glasgow. Today, we are about 280 Members, mostly in Britain, with 1450 Associate Members and 1250 Friends worldwide. The Iona Community welcomes people from all walks of life at its centres on the islands of Iona and Mull. It trades through Wild Goose Publications and the Iona Community Shop on Iona, and resources a wide range of church and community organizations through its Wild Goose Resource Group and Youth Resource Team. The Iona Prayer Circle is a worldwide network which prays for people and places in distress. Coracle is the bi-monthly magazine of the Iona Community, which seeks the exchange of thoughts and ideas as a basis for finding common ground.