Responsible for:

• Providing strong and clear line management for a Nursery team including mentoring of the wider leadership team including the third in charge role, room leaders, and colleagues.
• Plan and demonstrate a clear understanding of efficient staff deployment, matching staff hours to FTE bookings and managing the rostering in line with regulatory standards.
• Ensure strong and effective performance management and monitoring processes, with the ability to demonstrate impact and show improvements in performance, leading to the highest quality provision as set out in the Quality Assurance Framework, improved inspection ratings, full regulatory compliance, high levels of customer and employee satisfaction, and growth.
• Leading a Health and Safety Culture where you ensure all team members recognise the part they each play in ensuring robust procedures are followed for Policies and Procedures and the regulatory standards set by our regulator.
• Ensuring you provide an environment which a strong focus on our customer and practitioner engagement and provide guidance to practitioners.
• Undertake regular 1-1/supervision meetings with staff to plan and provide suitable professional development activities and opportunities for personal growth within a culture of self-driven development, to promote individual and team expertise in all aspects of nursery development and learning, to secure a highly effective, motivated, and innovative team.
• Take responsibility for own personal and professional development, accessing high-level improvement activities that inform general and nursery-based on national and international perspectives of best practice.
• Ensure children's records and files are kept up to date and accurate.
• Working with NM to ensure safer recruitment policies and procedures are adhered to for all staff.

Essential Experience:

• Working in collaboration with colleagues and the Nursery Manager in achieving positive working relationships through effective communication, leadership, and guidance and support of all members of the nursery team.
• A strong record of on-going training and/or professional qualifications since qualifying.
• Proven experience of working in early years education settings with successful management leading to Good or better regulatory inspection outcomes.
• Strong decision-maker, with the proven ability to support change; a secure understanding of the complex relationship between business/commerce and service excellence within a regulated setting, with the ability to follow guidelines and work with others to achieve success.
• Experience of proving support and leadership to a staff team to enable staff to fulfil their roles, responsibilities, and legislation duty in relation to safeguarding children.
• Current 12hrs Paediatric First Aid Certificate.

Experience Desirable:

• Leading teams through coaching and mentoring.
• Experience of budget management, efficient staff deployment and rostering programmes, and managing commercial performance and reporting metrics.
• Knowledge of Local Authority and Regulatory requirements and inspection processes across the UK.
• Coaching and mentoring experience.

Qualifications:

• Full and relevant level 3 qualification (essential).
• 12 hours paediatric first aid and first aid at work (essential).
• Level 2 Food Hygiene or equivalent - ideal.
• Relevant safeguarding/child protection training undertaken and a willingness to update training regularly (essential).
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Undergraduate or Foundation Degree in Early Childhood Studies or other relevant subject (Desirable).
• EYPP/EYTT or QTS post graduate status (Desirable).
• Full, clean driving licence and flexibility to travel as necessary.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to communicate clearly with adults and children using a variety of techniques (oral and in writing).
• Ability to lead and inspire nursery leaders and colleagues to achieve the highest standards of care and education.
• Highly motivated and driven, achieving positive impact and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to build trust and develop cohesive teams, strong empathy to understand child and parents' views, clear expectations, and fair-minded.
• High energy and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - calm approach and can-do attitude.
• Encourages colleagues to realise their potential and empowers high performers.
• Able to manage workload and manage time effectively to deliver the desired results.
• Able and competent user of company ICT systems and have the willingness to learn and develop ICT skills.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Childcare
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Company meals
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

School type:

• Day nursery
• Private nursery school

Work Location: In person

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Experience:

• leading a room: 1 year (required)