Nursery Cleaner

Nursery Cleaner

Cherrystone Nursery 

10 hours a week - 6:30pm-8:30pm

Monday - Friday, All year round

£12,698.40 per annum

Located on Perry Hill in Catford, The Dulwich Day Nursery & Preschool is a warm, home from home enviorment where every child feels safe, supported, and inspired to learn. With convenient bus links from Catford and Catford Bridge Stations and street parking avaliable right outside, the nursery is easy to reach for local families. Inside, our bright, open-space rooms create a calm and welcoming setting for children to explore a wide range of purposeful activities that nurture independence and creativity. Outside, our spacious garden offers endless opportunities for adventure and discovery in the fresh air. Our dedicated team of caring professionals builg strong, trusting relationships with each child and family, helping every little one feel confident, valued, and part of our nurturing community. 

We are currently seeking a Nursery Cleaner who is passionate to join our team and help us continue delivering exceptional care. This role has a shift pattern of 6:30pm-8:30pm Monday - Friday all year round. 

As Nursery Cleaner, you will:

• Be responsible for maintaining cleanliness of communal areas, including toilets, to ensure that the nursery environment is safe, clean, tidy, and professional standards are maintained. This includes washing, dusting, polishing, vacuum cleaning, and sweeping as appropriate.
• Taking responsibility for the health and safety of yourself and others, adhering to organisations policies and procedures and having an awareness of safeguarding children.
• Understanding the importance of the nursery environment, resources, safety, and hygiene and adhering to COSSH datasheets for cleaning materials.
• Store all cleaning materials and supplies in line with health and safety guidelines.
• Work in partnership with the Nursery Manager to ensure the timely ordering of any cleaning equipment or supplies.
• There will also be other cleaning duties to be undertaken when required as directed by the Nursery Manager.

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

As Nursery Cleaner, you will need:

• Previous cleaning experience - essential
• Fluent in written and spoken English - essential.
• Understanding of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH. – desirable
• Understands the importance of safeguarding and site security – desirable.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

The Dulwich Day Nursery and Preschool is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.