Porter - Nursery in Paddington

Annual Salary: £14,428 (20 hours/week) or £7,214 (10 hours/week)

Hours: 7:30 am to 9:30 am and 4 pm to 6 pm, Monday to Friday

Preferred one person who could do 20 hours per week; but we are also willing to offer the position to 2 candidates who could do 10 hours each.

Holiday: 7 weeks of paid holiday (2 weeks at Christmas, 2 weeks end of August + 15 days holidays to choose during the year)

Location: Paddington (5 min walk from the station)

Les Petites Etoiles is a private bilingual (English/French) Montessori chain of nurseries which offers excellent care and education. We admit children to the nursery from six months until four years. Our Paddington branch is a lovely nursery located 5 minutes walking from the Paddington station with a warm and supportive staff.

Job Role

As the Porter, you will be solely responsible for performing multiple tasks across the nursery when required, which could include, but is not limited to: support on opening checks and tasks; welcoming parents and bring buggies up and down stairs, receiving deliveries; providing general logistics support when required.

Ideally, you will have the following skills and characteristics:

• Ability to multi-task

• Attention to detail

• Reliability

• Verbal communication: Ability to read, write, and follow written and oral instructions.

• Must be a team player and treat co-workers with respect, reliable attendance is expected.

Responsibilities

To welcome parents / visitors mornings and evenings

To ensure the rubbish is taken out on a daily basis

To ensure recycling is put out every Tuesday morning

To carry out the Daily Risk Assessment check of the nursery every morning and ensure the duties on the Daily Risk Assessment is done.

To take the triple pushchairs in and out on a daily basis.

To bring up pushchairs as requested by the teams

To bring parents buggies and pushchairs up and down the stairs

Ensure that parents and visitors sign in and out

To ensure that the teachers are told when parents arrive to collect their children

To keep the reception area tidy

To help the babies get ready when needed.

Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the job holders responsibility.

Benefits

• Paid Sick days

• Training and Development opportunities

• Birthday bonus

• Trip after ten years

• Events

• Help for bike purchase

• Well-being program

• Free independent counselling service

• Free lunches

Safeguarding

Children and young people should never experience abuse of any kind.

We are responsible for promoting the welfare of all children and young people, keeping them safe and practising in a way that protects them.

All references will be thoroughly checked, and we will apply for a DBS update service and a DBS equivalent from any country the applicant was in before the UK and within the last five years.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants equally regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.