Nursery Deputy Manager

TN United Kingdom; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Deputy Manager, where you will be a TLE Happiness Ambassador. Your role involves creating a joyful environment for children, leading a dedicated team, and ensuring exceptional care and education. You will engage with families, promote the nursery, and uphold safeguarding standards. If you are passionate about early childhood development and thrive in a collaborative setting, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in Early Years sector and as a key person or Room Leader.
• Sound understanding of Early Years Foundation Stage and Safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Model outstanding care and ensure individual needs of children are met.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire the team to deliver outstanding care.
• Promote the nursery to support retention and grow occupancy levels.

Skills

Communication

Flexibility

Adaptability

Education

Level 3 Childcare Qualification

Paediatric First Aid

Tools

ICT Systems

Job description

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As a Deputy Manager, you are a TLE Happiness Ambassador. You are passionate about creating a happy and safe space that ensures our little learners have the best environment to Learn, Play, and Grow. As a TLE Happiness Ambassador, you will be fully equipped to share TLE’s world class curriculum, state of the art technology, characters, and programs. You will be responsible for building lasting relationships with prospective and current families and ensuring they experience why Happy Happens Here.

We believe that everyone deserves to work in a happy environment, join us to experience why Happy Happens Here.

Job Description:

• Model outstanding care that helps children to develop and meets their individual needs.
• Ensure that the team are providing rich learning environments that are stimulating and inspiring for the children both indoors and outdoors.
• Lead, mentor, inspire and influence the team to deliver outstanding care and education opportunities and experiences. Provide feedback to staff in order to establish a consistent approach of early years practice, LEAP and Core Advantage.
• Conduct and record regular Supervisions, 1:1’s and Appraisals. Include continued professional development opportunities for the team; and monitor the impacts of any training.
• Designated Safeguarding Lead; level 3 - promote the Health, Safety and Welfare of children, employees and families in line with The Learning Experience's Child Protection and Health and Safety policies.
• Promote and follow guidelines implemented for managing behaviour; including supporting children to manage their own feelings and behaviours.
• Support, coach and mentor new employees with their individual induction plan.
• Work collaboratively and in partnership with colleagues, parents and / or care givers to meet the individual needs of children.
• Promote the nursery to existing families; and new perspectives in order to support retention, reduce attrition and grow the occupancy levels at the nursery.
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication at all levels.
• Attend all staff meetings, and lead in the absence of the Nursery Manager. Attend training sessions, for both mandatory requirements and continuous professional development

Qualifications

• Experience of working within the Early Years sector Previous experience of working as a key person Room Leader (or equivalent) experience.
• Sound understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage Knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection Knowledge and understanding of wider legislative requirements for working with children.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable and embrace new ways of doing things. Child Protection Ability to identify issues prior to escalation.
• Competent user of ICT systems and willingness to learn and develop.
• Full and relevant Level 3 and or above(equivalent) Childcare qualification.
• Current Paediatric First Aid.

Additional Information

The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added. This job description may be reviewed in the future.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and references