Cherubs Nurseries
Room Manager - Babies
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Room Manager - Babies
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Working At Cherubs Nurseries
Team: Nursery Hours: 30–40 hours per week Line Manager: Head of Nursery (direct) Upon application, you will be directed to the Careers Page
About The Role
As Room Manager at Cherubs Nurseries, you will lead your room or unit with vision and excellence. This is your opportunity to not only create a high-functioning environment but to inspire, mentor, and empower Apprentice and Qualified Early Years Educators to deliver a bold, ambitious early years curriculum – one that equips children with confidence, resilience, and a world-readiness mindset.
Your daily challenge will be to strike the perfect balance, meeting:
- Children’s ever-changing needs
- Parents’ expectations
- Your team’s development
- The ambitions of Cherubs Nurseries’ business
Beyond operational excellence, you must fulfil a Designated Safeguarding/Reducing Safeguarding Roles (the specifics of which are determined after interview based on your role requirements).
In practice, Cherubs cultivates extraordinary outcomes through charisma, resilience and excellence. You’ll ensure every child – regardless of background – transforms into the best version of themselves, while growing as a role model for your team.
The Things We Offer
- 30% discount on our childcare fees for you and any eligible children in our nurseries
- 22 days annual leave (pa) plus extra bank holidays (FTE)
- A me day after completing 1 year’s service
- Fuel costs covered via our electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- Free weekday lunch
- Employee assistance programme access
- Regular internal inductions and volunteering activities
- Traditional ofsted marking days
- Nebula scheme training budget balance carry over
So – What Will You Be Doing?
The role blends Parkinson’s passion for operating environments with human-scale personal responsibility. Here’s how you make it happen:
The Child-Centric Manager
- Ensure age-appropriate routines, floorspace activities and outside play (follow guidelines on outdoor learning principles).
- Lead monthly activity planning based on observable interests, assessments and development stages, whilst following our high-standards curriculum (themed weeks, links to seasons).
- Record every key moment rigorously:
- Individual child profiles (updating illnesses, allergies and significant life events),
- Parent–staff communication (handwritten notes where needed),
- Detailed observations logging for termly case studies,
- Professional daily notebooks (showing direct focus on your room’s cohort).
- Crown children with confidence: supervise bathing, toileting, and hygiene routines; direct general care and ensure toiletries are stocked correctly.
- Transform your room into a safe, imaginative wonderland. Every surface reflects Cherubs standards:
- Display introspection,
- Log critical daily notes on sheet/whiteboard,
- Organise toys and equipment locations effectively (tidy/well-stocked pantry),
- Deep clean schedules and furniture care.
- Mealtimes: safety, nutrition, team organisation. Enforce our Food & Allergies Policy visibly; keep records accurate and simple.
- Manage transitions with key worker system (teaching them so continuity is seamless). Keep parents engaged at every child step.
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The Communicate With Purpose Manager
- Distribute, review and share positivity: allocate daily/weekly tasks transparently based on skillset (assigning shower care at daily wash routines, turns during outdoor magazines). Model this balance.
- Daily handovers connected to the parent (proud sharing reports before school/after care). Present as the calm face of your room; represent the brand beautifully.
- Monthly Business alignment checks: join story-bus scoping sessions with Leadership Team to link Nursery action plans with Annual objectives.
- Keep your team informed first on any policy change asks or wellness tips. Silence the confusion by directing key participants’ attention and nurturing the Why.
The Play To Win Manager
- Designated role in safeguarding or reducing safeguarding process
- Carefully manage the screening kits of key documents needed (see policies carried out).
- Support use of clear checklists ensuring accurately documented.
- Roll out marketing events like Outdoor Summer Fair, transition coach/system for Pre-school Graduation of students, “Fairy Night” experiences via children’s magician participation or hosted parent evening networkings.
- Race the deadlines on compliance records: keep checks, forms and assessments promptly updated. No lazy oversights—track strong.
- Commitment to policies: Up-to-date with Cherubs’ most exacting trajectories:
- Routines,
- Equipment health/safety checks,
- Staffing trainings.
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The Seek Solutions Manager
- Own the spirit of parent engagement: take issues seriously but positively. Pressure dial parents with engaging solutions instead of stress.
- Administer first aid correctly (including children and staff visits with this respect) and capture documentation strictly.
- Targeted developmental support: identify children with SEND or English As Additional Language (EAL) need. Alison with the Head of Nursery, SEN mentor, parent plan for tailored action. Assist with Statement/EHCP processes.
- Lead the Settling/All About Me process for new children. Embed the children’s home story (belongings cards/books) to anchor them.
The Look Out for Each Other Manager
- Double down on team culture. Enforce clear induction paths; weave yourself into their growth:
- Teaching workflow efficiently,
- Revealing hidden skills,
- Spotlighting initiative,
- Share advancement routes to expand your leaders.
- Be their champion: Cheer loud using company platforms. Newsletters/Direct Feedback tweets, praise in morning huddles, raffle wins at tables — nurture growth together. Celebrate each other’s wins and celebrate cherubs ambassadors.
- Diligent Ofsted prols: Coach your team to build confidence as if they are officially inspected. Audits or mock visits equal positive reassurance, preparation for full probation or real Ofsted process....
- Celebrate everyone’s efforts – hold them to match progress and highlight it like brilliance.
- Grow their ambition post listed observation experiences like during pandemic routines.
Because We’re Human
This job description is only a baseline. If something’s missing? We’ll ask how and how can we enable. We’ll also bend around wheelchairs or screens or other elements to make the recruitment accessible.
We’re equal opportunities, happily sniffing out a best fit across backgrounds, identities, and everyone from our door. Disabilities, learning differences too? We do our part. Can someone make it possible for you? Have comfortable conversation or reasonable adjustment pressure once applied — The Cherubs Team looks forward to exploring every asset you bring.
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