Nursery Cleaner

Kloisters Kindergarten and Pre-school 

Arethusa Road, Rochester, ME1 2UR

Nursery Cleaner

6pm-8pm 

Monday - Friday, All year round

£12.50 per hour

The Kloisters Kindergarten and Preschool are looking for a Nursery Cleaner to join the team. Within this role you will undertake a variety of tasks and cleaning to support our nurseries daily routines and maintain high standards. Your role will require ensuring that everyone visiting the nursery can enjoy a clean, safe, organised, and welcoming environment.

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 Kloisters Kindergarten 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.