Assistant Deputy Manager

Tinies; Harlow; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's care provider in Harlow is seeking a full-time Assistant Deputy Manager. This role involves leading a team, ensuring high standards of care and education, and maintaining strong partnerships with parents and colleagues. The ideal candidate has a Level 3 Early Years qualification and experience in leadership within an early years setting. This position offers competitive salary and additional benefits including paid holiday breaks and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Salary (£12.50 per hour)

Additional paid holiday break between Christmas and New Year

Employee of the month voucher

Yearly bonus

Staff events

Pension Scheme

Uniform

Qualifications

• Experience within an Early Years leadership role.
• Confident decision maker with previous support and leadership experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively with children and adults.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and inspire a team in providing exceptional care and education.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead for the nursery.
• Promote the nursery to current and potential parents.

Skills

Leadership

Safeguarding knowledge

Communication

Trust building

Education

Full and Relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification

Job description

Job description

This beautiful setting offers day care for children aged 3 months to 5 years of age. They are a thriving nursery looking for an enthusiastic, and motivated Assistant Deputy Manager. This will be a full-time position working ideally 35 hours-40 hours a week. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute towards the leadership of a happy nursery where we focus on encouraging children to be children, learning through fun and engaging play.

This setting is a 15-minute walk from Harlow Town train station or if you are a driver the setting has a car park on site for staff.

Benefits

• Salary (£12.50 per hour)
• Additional paid holiday break between Christmas and New Year
• Employee of the month with a chance to win a voucher of your choice.
• Yearly bonus
• Staff events
• Pension Scheme
• Uniform

Qualifications

• Full and Relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification (essential)
• Experience within an Early Years leadership role
• Confident decision maker, with previous experience providing support and leadership to others to enable staff in fulfilling their roles and responsibilities.
• 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 both colleagues and parents.
• Ability to variety of techniques to clearly and successfully communicate with both children and adults

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care and education to all children in our care.
• 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.
• In collaboration with the Nursery Manager, contribute to succession planning, identification and delivery of relevant training, and supporting professional development plans, including coaching and mentoring for all colleagues.
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, parents and / or carers, as well as other professionals, to meet the needs of each child.
• Promote the nursery to both current parents, and potential customers, to support retention and ongoing occupancy growth.
• Ensure commercial success of the nursery by maintaining expenditure inline FTEs and budget KPIs.
• Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offer, to support practice in all areas of the nursery.