Tops Day Nurseries
Curriculum & Assurance Manager
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Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Job type: Full Time Permanent
Salary: £38,000 Annum
Contracted Hours: 40 hours per week
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About the Role
The Quality Manager role is a supporting role to assist managers and regional managers across two regions. This role reports onto the Quality and Audit Director who is the line manager. There is also a ‘dotted line’ to the relevant Regional Director/Managers for each region.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Committed to the company
- Organisation skills
- Flexible Approach
- Self-motivated
- Good Administrative skills
- Leadership Skills
- Excellent Communication skills
- Good time management
- Decision making skills
Desirable (or Willing to Work Towards)
- Good administrator with excellent organisational skills, use of IT database and excel, with the ability to set up and create own systems to work smarter.
- Strong interpersonal skills so that they can work collaboratively across all levels of colleagues and professionals.
- Strong Communication skills, as duties will involve producing written reports and relaying outcomes to audit and compliance inspection outcomes.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including presenting to multi-disciplined audience. Communication, numeracy and organisational skills.
- Experience at Manager Level and or working within the care industry, show good initiative and excellent communication skills.
- Previous experience for working for a governing body such as Early Years or Ofsted.
- Good knowledge of information technology especially Microsoft office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF’s, and in house data bases)
- Key Skills at Level 3 or equivalent
- Degree in Early years or leadership and management.
Key Responsibilities
Quality
- To develop and ensure quality of practice and inclusion provisions comply or exceeds Ofsted/national standards for the regions assigned to you.
- Detailing clear practices and areas of the provision that is working well in and produce a report with actions to defined areas for improvements.
- Support colleagues in helping to achieve excellent practice throughout the settings.
- Support managers and settings with inspections whether announced or unannounced by Ofsted or Early Years.
- To report to the Quality and Audit Manager and work with the Operational leadership to proactively identify actions and manage audit expectations in order for the nurseries to be fully compliant in line with the needs of the business, Ofsted and Local Authority Regulations.
- Internal audits undertaken within each setting, producing an internal Tops operation report to ascertain how well the setting is functioning from a quality point of view.
- To produce an annual report on all inspections - monitoring progress from previous years and agreeing annual actions with the regional manager
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Inclusion
- Support Setting INCo’s with Inclusion and SEND support.
- Support inclusion by giving advice to the key person, 1:1 worker and nursery manager for any equipment or strategies to be used to support children with additional needs. Support with report writing and checking developmental documents to ensure they are thorough and current, demonstrating the child’s development accurately.
- Support with report writing and checking developmental documents to ensure they are thorough and current, demonstrating the child’s development accurately.
- Complete regular reviews with the nurseries allocated to ensure that children’s needs are being met.
- Work with INCo’s at the dedicated nurseries, to support them to deliver best possible outcomes to all children in their nurseries with possible or actual SEND and/or behaviour issues.
- Take the lead in communications with Local Authority in your area regarding children with SEND and/or behaviour issues to ensure nursery colleagues are doing our best for children - but not doing the LA job.
- Coach colleagues to support and deputise yourself in this role.
- Perform a signposting/resourcing aspect to support colleagues.
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About Us
At Tops Day Nurseries, we believe in rewarding our team for their hard work and dedication. Here are some of the fantastic benefits you’ll enjoy as part of our family:
- Annual Bonus Scheme: As an Employee-Owned Company, you’ll share in our success. Each May, you’ll have the opportunity to receive a bonus from our profit shares.
- Childcare Discount: Enjoy up to 60% off childcare within Tops Day Nurseries.
- Flexible Working Options: Maximise Your Time Off with Compressed Hours.
- Holiday Allowance: Take advantage of 30 days of holiday to relax and recharge.
- Exclusive Deals and Discounts: Access our reward and recognition platform, Each Person, for up to 40% off cinema tickets, Diesel Savings Card, and cashback on your favourite supermarkets and high street retailers.
- Health and Wellbeing Support: We’ve got you covered with NHS Prescription Charges, Optical Care, and Dental Treatment
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
All candidates will be required to have an enhanced DBS which is on the update service. All offers are conditional upon satisfactory background checks. This role involves regulated activity with children. You should not apply if you are on the Children’s Barred List.
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