Nursery Cleaner

The Potters Bar Day Nursery & Pre-School

Nursery Cleaner

Salary £12.54 per hour

12 hours a week - 2 hours Monday - Thursday. Friday - 4 hours 

Potters Bar Day Nursery is an Ofsted-rated Good nursery, centrally located in the heart of the High Street. Situated near Potters Bar Mainline Station and Barnet Hill Tube Station, the nursery is easily accessible via public transport, with convenient links to the M25, M1, and A1. The setting also offers both On-Site and Off-Road Parking for added convenience.

Our nursery features spacious, light-filled rooms and a large, fully resourced garden, providing abundant opportunities for outdoor play and learning. This vibrant space encourages children to engage in both imaginative and real-world play, fostering their growth and development.

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 flexible shift pattern and would be Monday - Friday all year round. 

Why Join Us?

At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Referral programme: Refer a friend and earn upto £750
• Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays 
• Health and Wellbeing Programme: Confidential employee assistance helpline available 
• Career Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth
• Excellent Transport Links and Free Onsite Parking

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.

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.

We’re a family by name, and we’re a family by nature too. We are defined in many different ways, by many different people. Different cultures. Different ideas. Different ages, genders and skillsets. Whilst every individual will have their own definition of family, these definitions all come together to show Family First for who we are.

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 Potters Bar  Day Nursery & Pre-School 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.