Specialist in Hotel Housekeeping EFZ

Your training at the Deltapark Vitalresort

Are cleanliness and tidiness important to you and do you like to help others?

The hotel rooms are your special domain. You are responsible for ensuring that guests feel at home in their rooms, including taking care of room cleaning, laundry, decorations, and breakfast service. As a hotel specialist, you will work closely with reception and support other colleagues in their tasks. You enjoy contact with people and foreign cultures, and always find a competent solution to guests' concerns.

Room cleaning employee at the Deltapark Vitalresort
Two housekeeping employees preparing the hotel bed

Requirements

  • Tidy
  • Organized
  • Enjoy dealing with people
  • Team player
  • Good comprehension skills
  • Resilience and flexibility
  • Willing to work irregular hours, evenings, and weekends

Training Programme

During your training, you will gain insight into many different departments in our hotel. After three years of training, your experience will be complete and you will know exactly what is needed to ensure a perfect hotel stay. The start and main focus of the apprenticeship is housekeeping. Further stages of your apprenticeship include service, reception, floristry, and laundry departments. Over the course of your training, you will be able to take on more and more responsibility - always supported by our experienced specialist staff.

Housekeeping employee prepares the room for the guest at the Deltapark Vitalresort
Employee places pleasant details in the hotel room of the Deltapark Vitalresort

Good to know

Vocational School

Vocational school lessons and inter-company courses take place as a block course (2 x 5 weeks per apprenticeship year) at the Regina school hotel in Interlaken. During the block course you will live in the school hotel and attend classes from Monday to Friday. The cost of attending the school is approximately CHF 1,000 per block course for accommodation and meals.

Salary

1st year of apprenticeship CHF 1,070 per month

2nd year of apprenticeship CHF 1,350 per month

3rd year of apprenticeship CHF 1,600 per month

Future perspectives

  • Shortened second apprenticeship as Catering Specialist EFZ, Chef EFZ
  • Professional examination as Head of Housekeeping in the hotel industry, with a Federal Certificate and diploma in Hotel Management
  • Study at a hotel management school to become a Dipl. Hôtelier/Restaurateur HF
Housekeeping staff at the Deltapark Vitalresort on Lake Thun