Nursery Manager
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Location:
Taunton, Somerset.
Salary:
£38,640 per annum.
Contract/Hours:
Permanent Full Time – 40 hours per week.
Benefits:
* 28 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 Service
The Hollies provides the best that an Early Years setting has to offer in a colourful, spacious, enriched environment. We believe in creating magical places for children and engaging children's curiosity and imagination to inspire lifelong learning in a safe, loving, enabling environment.
We embrace the fact that all children are unique and special, and we strive to offer a programme of care and education that not only ensures children experience all areas of the 'Foundation Stage Framework' but that also appeals to every kind of learner.
We not only have fabulous indoor provision providing children with amazing invitations to play grabbing children's curiosity through awe and wonder. Were very lucky to have a large outdoor space at The Hollies. The garden is divided into age-specific areas, with free flow access from the playroom.
The landscaped garden can be used no matter the weather, with soft grounding ensuring a safe and fun place for the children to explore and learn. In addition to your handovers, you'll receive access to our secure app which you'll receive a daily diary of feedback, newsletters, and other updates. With a quick glance around at drop off, you'll spot the menus, planning sheets and children's artwork all on display. We're always looking to add to the fun and broaden the experience of our little ones. Children love nature, so our regular walks around the community are always a hit, especially if we go via the park The highly qualified onsite cook provides freshly cooked homemade meals daily, catering for all dietary requirements.
The Hollies is conveniently located close to the centre of Taunton Town.
About the role
We're looking for an enthusiastic and pro-active Nursery Manager to join and lead our team at
Spring the Hollies in Taunton
to provide a safe, caring, fun and stimulating environment. You'll provide the highest standard of leadership and form strong and supportive relationships not only with your team, but also to our parents and children.
You'll be responsible for the day-to-day running of the nursery and work to develop, oversee and manage high quality, child centred provision of early years' education and day care services for children aged from birth to five years. Providing a direct management of your team of staff, together you'll promote and establish a working environment which the emotional, physical, social, psychological, physical, developmental and educational well-being of children is paramount.
Some other key responsibilities of your role will be;
* Actively engaging in marketing and advertising in order 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.
Closing Date:
Tuesday 23rd September 2025.
Interviews:
will be scheduled for week commencing 29th September 2025 face to face.
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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