13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    9 May 2025 at 8am

  • Date listed

    25 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 2 hours a day, 3.45 to 5.45pm Monday to Friday, term-time, plus one working week of deep cleaning during the school summer holiday.

Contract type

Fixed term - 6 months

Pay scale

Grade A

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint a hard working and dedicated cleaner to join the small team of cleaning staff who manage the cleanliness needs of our friendly nursery school and day care.This position is fixed term (6 months).

You will work as part of the team, undertaking various cleaning duties throughout the school to ensure our children’s learning environment and staff work place is always clean.

Successful candidates will have:

Essential:

  • Experience in cleaning duties and knowledge of best practices in cleaning
  • Ability to work under own initiative with limited supervision
  • Awareness of the importance of providing a quality service and satisfying the cleaning requirements of the school
  • Awareness of the importance of hygiene in the work place
  • Ability to work on your own and to work as part of a team
  • Reliable

Desirable:

  • Level 2 cleaning qualification
  • Understanding of Keeping Children Safe in Education and their responsibilities for Safeguarding
  • Understanding of Health and Safety regulations as they relate to the operation of cleaning equipment and materials
  • Awareness of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
  • Understanding of the School’s ethos and values
  • Understanding of school policies and willingness and ability to work within these
  • A ‘Can do attitude’

What the school offers its staff

We can offer:

• A positive working environment within a well-resourced school

• Training to ensure you can fulfil all aspects of the job description

• The support of a highly professional, committed and happy staff team

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Ham Drive Nursery School and Day Care

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 0 to 5
Education phase
Nursery
School size
78 pupils enrolled
Age range
Not given
Ofsted report
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School website
Ham Drive Nursery School and Day Care website
Email address
cwatts@plymbridge.net
Phone number
01752 366389
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