Sarah

My Requirements

We would like someone weekly to carry out a full clean of the house (some rooms do not get much use eg our loft bedroom and front sitting room, so every other week would be fine for these unless we have visitors) and provide general household help.
We have a current cleaner who does 4 hours fortnightly, so the whole house can be cleaned in this time. She is excellent, but does not provide other 'home help'.

Ideally we would like to condense our requirements to one individual, but if not possible then we will keep our current cleaner at 3-4 hours per week, and search for another invididual for some 'household help' for another 4 hours a week.

We would like someone reliable, and english speaking (does not matter if 1st/2nd/3rd language etc as long as fairly fluent) who could either do 8 hours over 2 half days a week - ideally 1 morning and 1 afternoon - if the proper house clean is included. If not, we would like 4 hours over 1 afternoon per week for household help (as would keep our existing cleaner for the other hours).

Household help tasks would likely vary week to week but to generally include a tidy of downstairs / kitchen, a quick hoover of hallway / kitchen if needs it, to do a load of washing and hang up washing / fold dry clothes, unload dishwasher, the odd bit of ironing (only would be max a few garments each week if any), prepare some batch cook style food for the family (we are not fussy as long as it is healthy and tasty!) and potentially occasionally to collect our boys from nursery if we are having disastrous work days, but this would not be the norm. You will not be routinely expected to provide solo childcare. My husband works from home and will usually be around upstairs.

If you would like the 4 cleaning hours also, we would like a thorough clean of the entire house weekly (bar front room and loft bedroom which can be left unless we have visitors) including bathrooms with showers baths and tiles, kitchen with microwave, fridge, highchair etc, skirts, bins, recycling, hallway stairs and landing, bedrooms, cleaning of hard floors, hoovering etc.

I do have fairly high standards when it comes to cleaning :)
I have selected a few slots for flexibility. Our current cleaner comes on a thursday or friday, so if household help only then we would like earlier in the week. If both, ideally we would split the days between beginning and middle/end of the week. We would require positive references, and a DBS check.
Payment will be between 15-18 GBP per hour depending on experience.

If we all get on well and you are reliable / good with our children then there may be an option to extend hours from next september 2025 when our eldest starts school to include 1-2 x after school sessions per week or 1-2 before school sessions.