DOMESTIC COUPLE CRANBROOK KENT
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| Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
| Location | CRANBROOK KENT |
| Area | Kent, England |
| Sector | Couples - GardenerCouplesCouples - HousekeeperCouples - DriverCouples - Grounds personCouples - SecurityCouples - CookCouples - Handy-PersonCouples - HousemanCouples - General Maintenance |
| Salary | Negotiable depending on qualifications and experience |
| Currency | GBP |
| Start Date | OCTOBER 2023 |
| Job Ref | CC4084 |
| Job Views | 78 |
- Description
- RESIDENTIAL DOMESTIC COUPLE
CRANBROOK KENT
HOUSEKEEPER-NANNY, FAMILY COOK & GROUNDSPERSON -DRIVER
Essential Requirements: Energetic, experienced, professional couple. Self-starting team players with great attention to detail, proactive and discreet. Desire to be part of high- performing team in a long-term position. Both must drive with full, clean driving licences. Enhanced DBS Checks will be required.
Overview: A newly created vacancy for an experienced, energetic and flexible couple to lead the management of a small estate 90 mins from Central London. The estate comprises a Grade-2 listed 6-bedroom family home, 2-bed guest cottage, 2-bed stable conversion (currently occupied), outbuildings, pool and tennis court set in 50 acres including formal gardens, woodland, pasture and a wonderful kitchen garden. This is the family home of professional working principals and their three school age children.
Whilst duties are separate the couple must work well together and have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in similar roles.
NANNY-HOUSEKEEPER -FAMILY COOK ( 7AM TO 7PM MON TO FRI INC 1 NIGHT BABYSITTING)
The housekeeper-nanny will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the main house and for the care and supervision of children outside school while principals are working. The role has a broad set of responsibilities with a high degree of autonomy offered and expected. It is expected that the housekeeping part of the role will take up the largest amount of time, but the housekeeper will need to be enthusiastic about being in sole charge of primary school aged children.
Housekeeping duties will include cleaning, tidying, bed changing, laundry and wardrobe care, ironing, taking deliveries, running errands, liaising with and overseeing contractors and tradesmen (eg window cleaners), leading the weekly grocery shop, provisioning and organisation of household supplies. Occasionally the house is used as a film location and you will act as a point of contact for the production team. The property's guest cottage is periodically run as a self-catering holiday let for which there will be some oversight and provisioning duties (but note the cleaning is done by a separate team).
Nanny duties will include dropping off and collecting the children from school ( walking distance) when the principals are unable to do so, taking to and from activities, ensuring kit and homework bags are packed as needed for the day; ensuring uniform is clean and smart; supervising homework; preparing and supervising meals (breakfast and children's dinner, lunch in school holidays – note, no allergies or fussy eaters); supervising bedtimes. In school holidays, taking children to activities and providing supervision where needed. Providing babysitting one night/week and additional ad hoc babysitting and potentially overnight stays by mutual agreement.
Strong cookery skills would be desirable, for example: meal planning, preparation and cooking of fresh, healthy family meals. There is access to a large kitchen/vegetable garden for seasonal produce. You may enjoy displaying cut flowers, working with the principals and gardener to ensure good use of available fruit, vegetables and flowers in the garden.
Other duties could include:
- Support withentertaining
The groundsperson will be responsible for the maintenance of the buildings, gardens and grounds. Have a practical background with good hands-on maintenance skills and be capable of property maintenance and hard landscaping, ideally with previous qualifications of a trade and gardening knowledge and experience. Experience of overseeing building projects would be an advantage.
Maintaining the garden and grounds to a high standard including grass cutting, edging, path clearing, hedge cutting and tree pruning, weeding, tree management (with tree-surgeons where required), lake maintenance, driveway maintenance and seasonal duties e.g. leaf clearing. Cleaning and caring for the cars (e.g. fuel, checking tyres and valeting) care of garden machinery, undertaking and arranging servicing, repairs etc. Pool and tennis court maintenance (working with contractors), maintain a stock of logs and monitor heating oil.
There will be some occasional driving duties for the principals to and from airport- station pickups, restaurants etc.
Other duties include:
- Drivewaymaintenance
- Overseeing 3rd parties including oil tank filling, septic tank emptying pit, car services/MOT
SHARED DUTIES
Driving duties, for example taking children to afternoon/evening activities, can be shared (subject to required checks and approvals)
Pet care should the principals add any animals to the family Pet sit and house sit when the family are away
SALARY AND ACCOMMODATION
Salary in line with market expectations depending on experience.
Accommodation will be in a spacious furnished separate 2 bed flat adjacent to the main house with utilities paid. Sorry No dependents or pets. Strictly non-smoking. Enhanced DBS checks are mandatory. Automatic Car provided for work duties. (CC4084)