Nursery Manager

Bright Horizons Family Solutions; Andover; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading childcare provider in Andover is seeking a Nursery Manager to lead a team in delivering outstanding care and education. The ideal candidate will have a Level 3 Early Years qualification and experience in a leadership role within Early Years settings. Responsibilities include managing safeguarding policies, optimizing nursery performance, and driving employee engagement. This fixed-term position offers various benefits including childcare discounts and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Childcare discount of 100% for first child

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Financial and wellbeing benefits

Professional development programme access

Qualifications

• Experience in Early Years leadership roles like Nursery Manager or similar.
• Participation in regulatory inspections with successful outcomes.
• Ability to foster high-performance teams and manage safeguarding policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead for the nursery.
• Collaborate with support office teams for recruitment and development.

Skills

Leadership in Early Years

Safeguarding knowledge

Team development

Regulatory compliance

Decision making

Education

Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification

Job description

Nursery Bright Horizons Andover Day Nursery and Pre School

Salary From 39416 per annum (dependent on qualification / s and experience)

Fixed term - 12 months

Location Andover

Are you looking to work for an organisation whose culture is driven by our HEART principles Honesty Excellence Accountability Respect and Teamwork Where you can be yourself feel supported and help to make a difference to the next generation Somewhere you can say : I did that.

We’re looking for a Nursery Manager to join our Andover nursery.

Our Benefits

• Childcare discount of 100% for first child
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and paid Christmas closure. Ability to also purchase additional leave
• Pension
• Financial and wellbeing benefits including 24/7 virtual GP appointments early access to wages and more
• Professional development programme access for every stage of your career including access to a careers coach
• Subject to T&Cs

The Role

As a Nursery Manager you will lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education to all the children in your setting and through inspirational leadership drive employee engagement retention and performance. You will act as Designated Safeguarding Lead holding overall responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery and management of safeguarding policies. You will work in partnership with support office teams to recruit nurture and continuously develop high performing colleagues as well as identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth. You will optimise nursery performance revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements.

What we’re looking for

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 leading to a Good or Outstanding outcome

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 understanding of complex relationship between commercial 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 develop trust and strong working partnerships with both colleagues and parents / carers

We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants. Please note due to our sector all roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS.

If you want to make a difference with a company who has been voted Great Place to Work every year since 2006 apply today!

We look forward to receiving your application!