Senior Nursery Manager

Spring Childcare; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading childcare organization is seeking a Senior Nursery Manager to oversee multiple nurseries in the Taunton region. The ideal candidate will provide leadership and support to Nursery Managers, ensuring high standards of care and education. This role requires a recognized Early Years qualification and a proven track record in management. The position offers a salary of up to £40,950 per annum, along with generous benefits including up to 30 days annual leave.

Benefits

30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays

60% discount on childcare

Professional qualifications and training opportunities

Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages

Pension with up to 7% employer contribution

Qualifications

• Recognised Early Years qualification at Level 4 or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record of leading high quality services in Early Years.
• Experience working to OFSTED guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide local leadership and support to Nursery Managers.
• Ensure settings meet quality teaching standards.
• Manage HR responsibilities including appraisals and recruitment.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Financial management

Understanding OFSTED guidelines

Education

Early Years qualification at Level 4

Leadership and management qualification

Job description

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Base pay range

Role: Ref 11874 – Senior Nursery Manager

Location: Langport, Somerset

Salary: Up to £40,950 per annum, depending on experience

Contract/Hours: Permanent / Full Time – 40 hours per week

Closing date: Midnight on 14th September

• 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• 60% discount on childcare within our nurseries and clubs
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers’ discounts

We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know…

About Spring

Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team. Join us and you can look forward to:

• A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
• Flexible working – wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
• Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
• Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Nursery Manager to provide local leadership, direction, and support to Nursery Managers across the Taunton region overseeing performance management within a district hub whilst also maintaining operational responsibility for a local Nursery. You will be giving the necessary support and guidance to enable Managers to deliver the highest standards of care and education.

What you’ll be doing

In the role of Senior Nursery Manager, your key responsibilities would be:

• Providing line management to Nursery Managers within a district hub to develop open and positive working relationships, consistency of practice and consistent implementation of Spring policies across the district.
• Ensuring each setting is aligned to the spring ethos of quality teaching and learning. Driving the quality of each setting to meet the standards of good Ofsted rating and aspiring to achieve 25% outstanding settings by 2028.
• Managing any complaints that have been escalated and fulfils the required range of HR responsibilities including appraisals, staff recruitment and selection, management of investigations, disciplinary processes including chairing hearings.
• Delegate responsibility for all nursery budgets in the district hub working closely with the Nursery Manager to meet targets. In doing so, to liaise with the business support officers around the operational and financial aspects of the business to ensure effective use of management systems and information.
• Agree and review individual targets and objectives with Nursery Managers within the district hub and provide regular feedback on performance.

What we need from you

In the role of Senior Nursery Manager, we are looking for a people person and you would ideally have:

• A recognised Early Years qualification at Level 4 or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• A Leadership and management qualification or be willing to work towards this.
• Must have a proven track record of leading and managing high quality services within the Early Years Sector.
• Demonstrable experience of working to OFSTED/Care Inspectorate guidelines.
• Knowledge of and the ability to interpret financial management & budgetary techniques
• Experience of operational planning which may include but not limited to staffing, equipment, training, emergency measures.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.

Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at [e-mail] quoting the above Reference.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

At Spring we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.

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