Housekeepers - Hell Bay Hotel
If you love creating calm, beautifully kept spaces, you’ll feel right at home with us. Join our housekeeping team on the stunning island of Bryher for the 2026 season.
Department: Hell Bay Hotel
Salary: From £12.60 per hour, dependent on experience
Benefits: Tips, accommodation and all meals provided
Hours: Full time, 2 days off per week
Contract Length: Seasonal, March - October (dates can be flexible)
The Role
We’re looking for hardworking and detail-focused housekeepers to join our friendly team on the beautiful island of Bryher.
In this hands-on role, you’ll be responsible for cleaning guest rooms and public areas to the highest standard, as well as checking for any maintenance or decoration issues and reporting these to the maintenance team.
You’ll also assist with laundry, changing linen and ensuring linen is correctly stored away, in addition to cleaning of communal guest and staff areas within the hotel.
If you take pride in creating welcoming spaces and want to be part of a close-knit team in a truly unique island setting, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Ideal Candidate
- A perfectionist with a keen eye for detail
- Experienced in or have good knowledge of housekeeping
- Good at working efficiently as part of a team
- Willing to undergo any training provided to assist in the role
- Well-presented and maintain smart appearance (uniform is provided)
- Consistently hard working, flexible and enthusiastic
About Hell Bay Hotel and Tresco Island
At the heart of the Isles of Scilly archipelago, 28 miles from the Cornish coast, Tresco Island is a family‐run business comprising the whole island of Tresco and the Hell Bay Hotel on the neighbouring island of Bryher.
On the island of Bryher, Hell Bay Hotel stands as Scilly’s highest-rated hotel and restaurant. Our boutique hotel offers 25 suites, a 3AA Rosette restaurant, a Crab Shack and wellness facilities - a haven of calm amidst the wild seascape of Bryher's west coast.
Just across the water on Tresco island sits timeshare and rental cottages, a 16-bedroom inn, two restaurants, a world-famous garden, a spa, an art gallery, a shop and a working farm, Tresco is a subtropical island known for its deserted bays, aquamarine seas and exceptional guest experiences.
Working & Living Here
If the opportunity to live and work on a subtropical island isn't enough, there's a range of great benefits and perks, including:
- Rent free on-island accommodation, minutes from the beach
- Paid relocation to the island at the start of your time with us
- Competitive pay
- 20% off in our restaurants, pub, spa and shops
- Free scheduled boating and camping kit hire, and discounted watersports equipment hire, to help you explore
- And many more...
In order to process any application, we require confirmation you are eligible to work in the UK. Unfortunately, if you are not, we are unable to help with the necessary paperwork to assist with this.
