Nursery Manager
Location: Norwich
Salary: £32,000 per annum
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term/Full Time (12 months commencing - January 2026) – 40 hours per week
Closing date: Midnight on the 30th of October 2025
Interviews to be held week commencing the 3rd November
Benefits:
* Time off to recharge - 36 Days leave per year
* 24/7 Confidential Helpline speak to trained counsellors any time, 365 days a year, for emotional, wellbeing or mental health support.
* Enhanced Well-being: 8 sessions In-Person, Phone, or Online Counselling or CBT
* Treat yourself: Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15,000 + retailers
* Salary Finance – access to financial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary
* Childcare Discount – A whopping 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs
* Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave – to care for dependents in an emergency.
* Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave
* Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
* Secure your future: Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
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 nursery
Spring Milecross is a well-established nursery located at the Norman Community Centre in Norwich. Rated Good by Ofsted, we provide high-quality early years education and care for children aged 3 months to 5 years. Our setting offers a nurturing, inclusive environment with bright, engaging spaces and free-flow access to outdoor play. We pride ourselves on supporting every child's individual development and well-being, ensuring all children thrive. As Nursery Manager, you'll lead a passionate and dedicated team committed to helping children learn, grow and thrive.
About the role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Nursery Manager to lead our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping a nurturing, inclusive, and high-quality early years environment for our children.
As Nursery Manager, you'll be responsible for the day-to-day running of the nursery, ensuring the delivery of outstanding early years education in line with the EYFS and organisational standards. You'll lead, support, and develop your team to provide a safe, caring and stimulating environment where every child can thrive.
You'll build and maintain strong relationships with the children, Parents, carers and team to ensure the best outcomes. Experience working with children with special educational needs (SEN) is essential, as you will champion inclusive practice and ensure that individual needs are met through tailored support and partnership working.
We are looking for a confident, compassionate leader who can inspire their team, manage effectively, and uphold the highest standards of safeguarding, care and professional practice.
Some other key responsibilities of your role will be;
* Actively engaging in marketing and advertising to develop an excellent reputation for the nursery.
* Supporting the development of an innovative approach to children's learning and play that is demonstrated by teams working well together within the setting.
* Undertaking the Designated Safeguarding Person and Registered Manager role in relation to Care Inspectorate Wales registration.
* Overseeing the recording and reporting of planning, observation and progression for all children including a full and thorough assessment of the setting against the National Minimum Standards and Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care framework.
Let's talk about you
In the role of Nursery Manager, we're ideally looking for someone who has:
* Minimum level 3 qualification in Childcare or Early Years.
* Leadership and management experience, in a childcare setting.
* Experience of working in a senior role within a nursery setting or centre working with children aged 0 to 5 years and their families.
* Leading a staff team, including supervision, work allocation, assessment or training and professional development.
* Knowledge and understanding of the EYFS, Ofsted requirements and relevant current legislation.
* Understanding of child protection processes, safeguarding and working with vulnerable children.
* Commitment to inclusive and non-discriminatory working practice with children, families, colleagues and the community.
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 quoting reference
We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring Oscars 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.
Don't meet every single requirement?
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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See below for further information about working with us:
Employee Reward Booklet
Spring Early Years Career Pathway
Job Description