Nursery Room Leader
Monday – Friday
Full‑time – 40 hours per week
Hourly rate: £14.20 per hour
Role Overview
* Oversee the care and development of all children, working closely with a team of experienced practitioners.
* Create a nurturing and safe environment that supports children’s physical, emotional, social, and intellectual growth.
* Support a key‑person approach, fostering secure attachments and monitoring children’s progress through high‑quality records (e.g., EyLog/EyMan).
* Guide and support colleagues’ development while maintaining a positive, collaborative team environment.
* Build strong partnerships with parents, encouraging engagement and sharing children’s development.
* Lead by example with professionalism, consistency, and respect across the nursery.
* Ensure EYFS compliance, safeguarding, and high standards of health, safety, and welfare.
* Promote outdoor learning and apply a strong understanding of child development in practice.
Requirements
* Full and relevant Level 3 qualification in Childcare (essential).
* Previous experience working with pre‑school children.
* A passion for the outdoors and outdoor learning, with enthusiasm for forest school activities.
* Strong understanding of child development and the ability to provide purposeful learning experiences.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, particularly in working with parents and colleagues.
* Knowledge of and commitment to safeguarding and child protection.
Benefits
* Annual leave: 24 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and an extra paid day off for your birthday.
* Childcare discount: 75 % off nursery fees for team members.
* Wellbeing support: Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme helpline.
* Learning and development: Tailored training and development opportunities to support your career growth.
* Pension: Company pension scheme.
* Employee discounts: Access to Perkaboo employee discounts.
* Mentoring: Employee mentoring programme.
* Health and wellbeing: Dedicated health and wellbeing support.
* Refer a Friend scheme: Earn up to £750 through our referral programme.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.
Footsteps Nursery Stratford is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti‑discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.
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