Nursery Manager

About the role:

Day to day as a Nursery Manager you will be an intrinsic part of the nursery management team ensuring the setting has the right staff, culture, policies and resources to deliver the highest possible standards of childcare and early years education.

You will offer solutions where you identify areas for improvements whether that relates to learning and teaching techniques or, creating more stimulating experiences and environments for the children and their educators. You will embrace inclusivity to ensure the individual needs of all those within your care are achieved.

You will encourage a love of learning through high quality teaching under the EYFS framework, ensuring that all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating experiences. You'll do this by leading, motivating and inspiring the educators, managing ratios through the staff rotas, attracting new hires and providing learning and developing opportunities to the team.

About you

- A true love for child development and care

- Able and willing to work in a team

- Ability to communicate effectively with management, your peers and parents

- High levels of care and empathy that every opportunity can be a learning opportunity

- Knowledge of the EYFS framework

Must haves:

- A full and relevant Early Years Education qualification Level 3 or above or equivalent
- Experience in a managerial role including nursery administration or similar
- A strong knowledge and understanding EYFS framework
- Reflecting the [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] values around responsibility, openness and working together and experienced in providing staff training and support
- Demonstrable leadership qualities (ideally within Early Years)
- Excellent communication skills with both children and adults

Why work for us:

Benefits at a glance

For you - We get the basics right Holidays, sick pay & personal Wellness Day

£1,000 Welcome Bonus

Enhanced DBS check and subscription to the DBS Update Service

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Discounted gym memberships, spa days, fertility support & so much more.

Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & [Employer hidden] Support Fund

Our community - Growing together Termly inset days, team app & [Employer hidden] Awards gathering.

We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

We care about our people.

Curious to find out more! We’d love to hear from you.

*[Employer hidden] is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.*