Job description
An opportunity has risen for a dedicated Nursery Manager to join a fun and friendly team. The Nursery is a term-time only preschool based in Peterborough and has great links with their connected school. The ideal candidate would be able to inspire and lead their team, delivery high quality and outstanding early years education and care for all children. If this sounds like you? Apply today!
What we can offer you (benefits):
•Salary - £21,434.88 - £24,594.50 inclusive of paid holiday entitlement
•100% discount on childcare and early education places (applicable to staff working in our early years settings)
•Extensive training and career progression planning, including access to our Learning Management System (LMS)
•The Alliance has invested in FAMLY reducing paperwork and giving you more time to focus on the children.
•A generous workplace pension scheme
•25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, with additional annual leave for long service.
Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your well being
•Enhanced sickness pay and paid bereavement leave
•A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
•Vitality membership wellness and fitness app - including lots of great health benefits, rewards, telephone, and face to face counselling
•Savings of up to 25% on O2 Refresh Airtime Plan on any new phone or tablets
•A dedicated mental health First aider to support your mental well being
What we need from you:
•Full and Relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification
•Experience within an Early Years leadership role (ideally as a Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager or similar)
•Experience of participating with a regulatory inspection
•Experience of developing high performance teams, with effective regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivery of high quality pedagogy, innovation and service excellence
•Confident decision maker, with ability to support change and the understanding of the complex relationship between business/commerce and service excellence within a regulated setting
•Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children
•Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with colleagues, parents and external partners
Your duties will include:
•Lead our nursery teams to deliver outstanding care to all the children in your setting
•Through your inspirational leadership drive employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery
•Work in partnership with Recruitment and HR to ensure your nursery is fully recruited, encouraging a diverse workforce
•Role model and mentor your nursery team to ensure the highest quality early childhood practice and experience for all children, including children with special education needs and/or disabilities
•Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery, holding overall responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery and management of safeguarding and child protection policies - monitoring and improving practice and behaviours that underpin our high performance safety culture
•Work in partnership with HR to identify succession plans for the nursery team and nurture, create and continuously develop a pipeline of high performing practitioners and Room Leaders, building the strongest talent pool in the sector
•Work with the Regional Director, Finance and Marketing teams to identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth within the nursery
•Commercial delivery of the nursery performance, optimising revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements, to deliver and exceed the annual budgeted EBITDA
•Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offer, to support practice in all areas of the nursery