Assistant Deputy Manager

Tinies; Harlow; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading nursery in Harlow seeks an enthusiastic Assistant Deputy Manager to lead and inspire a dedicated team. The role involves ensuring exceptional care and education for children, acting as the Designated Safeguarding Lead, and contributing to the nursery's growth and retention strategies. With competitive pay and numerous benefits including bonuses and holiday breaks, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in early childhood education.

Benefits

Additional paid holiday break between Christmas and New Year

Employee of the month with a voucher prize

Yearly bonus

Staff events

Pension Scheme

Uniform

Qualifications

• Experience within an Early Years leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues and parents.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead with overall management responsibilities.
• Develop partnerships with colleagues, parents, and other professionals.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Safeguarding

Education

Full and Relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

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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.

What we can offer you (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

What we need from you:
•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 use a variety of techniques to clearly and successfully communicate with both children and adults

Your duties will include:
•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.