The Leadership of the Team

• To be a line manager and provide support and supervision to all other members of staff, junior staff, and volunteers. Carrying out regular staff supervision and recording as appropriate, as well as conducting twice-yearly appraisals.
• To guide the nursery practitioners to follow best-practice within our blended approach and our policies and procedures.
• To check the planning and delivery of our curriculum, and help the team find time for weekly planning meetings and non-contact time.
• Recognising the strengths of each member of staff and supporting them with their areas for improvement.
• To ensure that our vision is met.

Excellent Organisation

• The manager must ensure they have a reasonable knowledge and understanding of current relevant legislation in relation to childcare.
• To ensure the nursery, staff, policies & procedures comply with OFSTED & other statutory requirements.
• Ensuring our menus are followed, and that any nutritional, religious, or dietary needs are met, and allergies are carefully controlled.
• The planning and filing of relevant records including the keeping of children's personal details for emergency purposes, the keeping of an accident record file, attendance register, outings records file, medicine records file, and any other mandatory records including receiving and noting fees and invoices to parents.
• Updating the register and other spreadsheets to assist with bills to parents.
• Many other general administrative tasks range from paying cheques into the bank account, dealing with all telephone calls, ordering supplies & food, filing bills, maintenance of employees or student files, Health & Safety including risk-assessments, fire drills records, food temperature records, first aid box, and conducting the fire drill.
• Completing the standard monthly action plan, and also devising and following up new action plans as required.
• A key responsibility is ensuring the nursery operates at our target occupancy.
• Any other administrative duties, as required by the needs of the Nursery

Ensuring Safeguarding & Welfare

• Ensuring our safeguarding policy is followed: our policy is never to have only one member of staff alone with the children in a room/space – reminding everyone and making certain that there are always two people in the room with children at all times, and that no mobile phones are used at any time.
• Conduct (or supervise and delegate) daily risk assessments, as well as various other assessments at various intervals.
• Overseeing the planning and delivery of relevant records and developmental reports in relation to children's individual progress. Ensuring that regular half-yearly meetings are arranged with parents to deliver a written and verbal report by key persons/room leaders. Reports are to be signed and filed.

Required Skills

• Leadership skills
• Thorough knowledge of the EYFS
• Relationship with staff
• Effective communication with parents
• Modelling best practice
• Good level of spoken and written English. This is an absolutely required skill. With good spoken and written English. Our nurseries specialise in language skills, and ability here is an absolute “must”.
• Competent IT skills (Word, simple Excel)

Required Emotional Characteristics

• Confidence as a leader
• Great listening skills
• Stable and dependable
• Problem-solving & a positive can-do attitude
• Resilient (strong) yet also caring and great empathy
• Able to take constructive criticism
• Able to be self-reflective to improve constantly

Culture & Values

• Nearly all our staff recommend us to their friends (93%)
• “It’s a great team and well-organised nursery”
• “The positivity of the team and the support from management.”
• “The work philosophy is amazing and you can feel it in the setting. This nursery really appreciates their team, listens to them and prioritises their wellbeing.”
• “I feel trusted by the managing team, I can research and choose my own training, my team of colleagues is fantastic and everyone shows a lot of empathy.”
• “I love the workplace harmony – caring colleagues and management. Another point is professional growth – the management will push you to achieve your full potential”
• “Home away from home.”

Safeguarding

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

We have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people, to keep them safe and to practise in a way that protects them.

All references will be thoroughly checked, and we will apply for a DBS update service as well as request a DBS equivalent from any country the applicant was in prior to the UK and within the last 5 years.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants equally without regard to age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.