Position: Live-in Domestic Couple
Client(s): Private family
Guaranteed annual gross salary: starting at £60,000
Requirements: 3 years’ experience, fluent in English, pet-friendly, confident driver
Available type(s): permanent, full-time, live-in, long term
Location: Burghfield, Reading (RG30), United Kingdom
Reference: DC-7080
To apply, please submit your CV in .doc format at [email protected] or call us at +44 208 057 1333.
A lovely English couple is looking for a live-in domestic couple for their full-time residence in Burghfield, Reading (RG30), just 1h drive from London. The small estate comprises an 8,500 sq ft main property, with 7-bedrooms and some other small buildings. This professional role is for an honest, reliable, and hardworking couple who enjoys the great outdoors and working with pets. At least one must drive and a car will be provided. No travelling will be required.
Working schedule: 40 hours/week, including evenings and weekends. The starting date is between immediate and early December 2020.
Main Duties
- Occasionally cooking and meal planning with Principal
- Cleaning, laundry, ironing, and shoe cleaning
- Hold cleaning product knowledge and what to use on correct surfaces (such as marble, silver nickel etc.)
- Arrange dry cleaning
- Shopping for groceries for principals and their guests
- Display cut flower arrangements from the gardens
- Assist with larger dinner parties and other events; Event management and planning;
- Supervise ad-hoc cleaning;
- Look after, walk and pick up after dogs
- Oversee security of the estate and act as the first responder to alarms
- General property maintenance and light gardening
- Manage petty cash
- Arrange and oversee tradesmen
- Occasionally drive principals to/from airport/station/restaurant/etc
- Clean and generally look after cars, arrange repairs/servicing
- Maintain stock of logs for open fires, lay/light/clear when necessary
- Monitor supplies and re-order
- Grounds maintenance, leaf clearing, driveway raking, border tidying, sweeping
- Taking out bins
- Take deliveries, messages, gate portering / answering the gate to guests
The minimum requirements to apply are:
- High level of English
- 3 years’ experience, with checkable references
- At least one to be a confident driver – a staff car will be provided
- Pet friendly and confident cook
- Flexible for rotation, to cover evenings/weekends
- Loyal and looking for a long-term commitment
- DBS check required prior to start
Job Benefits
The salary starts at £60.000 yearly gross per couple. The couple will live in a separate furnished one-bedroom accommodation with kitchen, heating, electricity, water, internet and council tax paid. General groceries (food) are included. A car will be provided for business and exceptional personal use. Also, 28 days of paid holiday are offered. Pets are not allowed at the provided accommodation unfortunately.
To apply, please submit your CV in .doc format at [email protected] or call us at +44 208 057 1333.
