Home Housekeeper Job Description
A home housekeeper may be hired in a personal capacity or through an agency that provides home help. The basic idea behind hiring someone at this position is to acquire help with everyday household tasks, including cleaning, and kitchen and laundry assistance.
Working as a home housekeeper is a physically taxing job, and not everyone can do it. If you have it in you to do justice to this position, keep reading!\
Other duties that home housekeepers may be expected to perform include child care, cooking, laundry, and errand running, all of which must be done with great care and meticulousness.
As a home housekeeper, you have to be on your toes constantly – both physically and figuratively speaking. Here is a list of duties that you will be expected to perform in this role:
Home Housekeeper Duties and Responsibilities for Resume
- Confer with homeowners to determine their home cleaning and maintenance requirements.
- Perform cleaning duties such as sweeping and mopping floors, and ensuring that all surfaces are properly disinfected.
- Vacuum curtains, rugs, and carpets, and ensure that they are properly washed on a periodic basis.
- Handle kitchen cleaning and sanitization processes, ensuring that all utensils and equipment are properly washed, dried, and maintained.
- Wash and sanitize bathrooms, ensuring that proper and safe methods for both are followed.
- Replenish supplies such as paper towels, soap, shampoo, and towels in bathrooms and powder rooms.
- Make beds on a daily basis and change bed linen as per client-specified schedules.
- Remove trash from rooms, bathrooms, and kitchen areas, and ensure that it is properly and safely disposed of.
- Dust furniture, and polish all wooden and brass pieces on a periodic basis, as per homeowners’ instructions.
- Ensure that cleaning and maintenance supplies inventory is properly maintained, communicating low stock levels to homeowners.
- Assist homeowners in looking after the young and elderly household members of the family.
- Run errands such as shopping for groceries, and paying utility bills.
Home Housekeeper Education Requirements
Typically, a high school diploma or a GED equivalent is sufficient to work as a home housekeeper. If you have had prior experience in cleaning homes (or even general cleaning exposure), you will be considered a great contender to hire at this position.
Home Housekeeper Skills & Abilities
Since this work is physically demanding, it is imperative that you are physically fit and agile, and that you have the capacity to work for long hours, on your feet. Also, it is important for home housekeepers to possess deep knowledge of cleaning and sanitation procedures, as they apply to households.