Having a Housekeeper will ensure that your home is kept to a high standard while you are able to focus on other aspects of your life. A Housekeeper is there to ensure that all the daily chores of running a home are maintained. This can include laundry, cleaning surfaces and organising pantries. It can also include more specialised tasks such as caring for antiques and polishing marble if this is necessary to your home. Having a Housekeeper means that you have a helping hand around the home. We understand that today’s world comes with more demands of you than ever before and a Housekeeper is there to help ease this pressure. A Housekeeper will focus on only the duties that relate to keeping your home clean, tidy and organised and will not take on childcare related duties as this would then become a Nanny Housekeeper.
Housekeepers are available on a live-in or a live-out basis, however, if you are looking at hiring a live-in Housekeeper you will need to have a spare room available for the Housekeeper. Many families that hire a live-in Housekeeper will either have a spare room with a shared or private bathroom at the very least. By offering more extensive accommodation for the Housekeeper, you will attract Housekeepers that have a higher level of experience and expertise within the Housekeeping industry.
Housekeepers are also available to come and help on a part-time basis if you feel that having someone assist with housekeeping duties full-time is not quite necessary for your needs. A part-time Housekeeper can come either every day for a few hours a day or alternatively they can come a few times per week for either half or full days. A minimum of 15 hours per week is normally required for a part-time Housekeeper through Little Ones, again this can be split over all seven days of the week at a couple of hours per day or over a few days for a full day at a time. This is because many of the candidates that we work with, with their level of experience and expertise are looking for positions of these hours or more.
A Housekeeper can help you with the following duties:
While a Housekeeper is able to assist with meal preperation occasionally, if you are looking for someone who will be able to assist with preparing meal plans and regularly high-quality meals for you and your family, then a Housekeeper Cook is the best option for you. A Housekeeper Cook will come to you with years of professional cooking experience either in a domestic setting or as a professional chef. A Housekeeper Cook will be able to assist with any dinner parties you hold and provide higher quality meals for your family.
The current market rates for Housekeepers within London and throughout the wider UK differs slightly depending on the sort of Housekeeper you are employing. It is important to remember that the more experience a candidate has and the more hours you are requesting, the higher the salary they are able to request.
Currently, the market rate for a full time live out Housekeeper within London is between £11 to £13 net per hour. A full time Housekeeper is considered to be someone that works between 35 and 60 hours per week.
A live in Housekeeper in London can expect a weekly salary of between £450 and £550 net per week. As an employer of a live in Housekeeper, you will be required to provide accommodation and food for the Housekeeper, which is important to factor in when considering a live in Housekeeper.
A part time Housekeeper who works between 15 and 35 hours per week has the current market rate of £12 to £14 net per hour.
If you are looking to employ a Housekeeper and you are based outside of London, the market rates for Housekeepers are similar but slightly lower due to the cost of living being lower to that in London.
This means that a live out Housekeeper outside of London has the market rate of between £10 and £12 net per hour, a live in Housekeeper has a market rate of £400 to £550 net per week and a part time Housekeeper has the market rate of £11 to £14 net per week.
It is important to note that these are net salaries. This is because when you employ a Housekeeper to work within your home, you are their employer and therefore responsible for their Tax and National Insurance contributions. This will need to be paid directly to HMRC on top of the salary you agree with your Housekeeper. Little Ones is able to set you up on our payroll system to take the hassle and complications of dealing with HMRC directly away from you, we are able to work out the exact contributions that are required from you and provide payslips with the breakdowns for your records as well as to your Housekeeper.
Little Ones offers flexible family Housekeeper service in locations throughout the UK, including in and around London as well as other counties within the UK. With our vast range of service locations, we can find you a professional Housekeeper that lives close to you to ensure they should never be late and can be there within a short period of time if needed. Little Ones has a specialist team that assists families and homes outside of London to find their perfect Housekeeper. Your safety and security are behind the driving forces of what we do, we have an extensive vetting procedure to ensure your Housekeeper is a positive and seamless addition to your home.
Our years of experience within the Housekeeping industry has meant that our vetting procedure has been honed down to a fine art. When you use a Housekeeping agency like Little Ones you can rest assured that the private Housekeeper you are being presented with has had a thorough background check, verbal references have been verified by our consultants and their experience compliments your requirements perfectly.
Our consultants believe that you should feel supported the very moment you contact us, and will not stop once you have found your private Housekeeper that perfectly compliments your needs. Our consultants are always on hand to assist at any point during your search and even after you have found the Housekeeper for you.
Private Housekeeping agencies such as Little Ones take the hassle of resourcing potential Housekeepers from you and will only present you with the best of the best that we meet. We bring them into the office for a face to face interview where their experience and qualifications are discussed at length and we are able to obtain verbal references which we then personally check ourselves.
A Little Ones Housekeeper checklist means all our candidates have the following:
From the very first call, your expert Housekeeping consultant will guide you through what your options are, what would suit your requirements most closely and put your mind to rest with any concerns you might have regarding your private Housekeeper search. Our consultants are also on hand to help and answer any questions you might have along the way, using an agency that specialises in private Housekeepers like Guardian Carers means you have a direct line to the experts. No matter what stage you are at with your private Housekeeper search, our consultants are on hand to assist.
Our years of experience within the Housekeeping industry means we know what it takes to be an exceptional private Housekeeper, which is why all the private Housekeepers we work with are the best of the best that are available. We pride ourselves on providing a premium level of service and care for our clients because we expect the same from our Housekeeper. We maintain the highest standards and expect the best from our Housekeeper because we know you expect the best for yourself.
Here at Little Ones, we pride ourselves on being able to delicately align a premium, luxury service for an aspect of your life that is so personal.
Using an agency that specialises in private Housekeepers for your home like Little Ones means you can be sure you will receive support from every side, we will take the stress of finding a private Housekeeper from you and present you with private Housekeeping options that perfectly aligns with your Housekeeping needs and your schedule.
We work with your family to find solutions, whatever your needs. To make perfect and seamless placements is Little Ones ethos.
