Nursery Manager

Love Childcare Recruitment; Birkenhead; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff wellbeing focus

Award-winning group

Job summary

Love Childcare Recruitment is seeking an experienced Nursery Manager for a busy Childwall setting in Liverpool. You will lead a team of 14 and oversee about 50 children daily, ensuring high standards within EYFS guidelines and a strong safeguarding culture.

The role offers a salary up to £35k, with the backing of an award-winning group and supportive area management, plus opportunities to shape how the nursery runs.

Qualifications

• Leadership and management experience in a childcare setting.
• Safeguarding leadership and compliance with EYFS & safeguarding standards.
• Team management including recruitment, induction, supervision and performance management.
• Quality assurance, curriculum oversight, and monitoring of teaching and planning.
• Administration and financial oversight, budgeting and occupancy reporting.

Responsibilities

• Take overall day-to-day management responsibility for the setting.
• Lead safeguarding practice and ensure reporting of concerns.
• Line-manage a team of 14 staff with appropriate supervision.
• Monitor teaching, planning and assessment to maintain high standards.
• Oversee budgets, staffing, occupancy, and funding reporting.

Job description

Nursery Manager in Childwall, Liverpool - Award-Winning Nursery Group

Up to £35k (dependent on experience) + benefits

Location: Childwall, Liverpool (L16)

Our client is an award-winning day nursery group with a strong, long-standing reputation across South Liverpool. They're looking for an experienced Nursery Manager to take the lead at their Childwall setting, overseeing a team of 14 staff and around 50 children a day.

This is a nursery that does things properly. Outdoor play sessions, yoga, daily mindfulness and a genuine "family feel" run through everything they do, and it shows in the awards on the wall, including multiple Nursery World finalist placings and an award for staff wellbeing. As Manager, you'll have real ownership of the day-to-day running of the setting, backed by a supportive area management team rather than left to figure it out alone.

On offer is a salary of up to £35k, the backing of an established, well-resourced group, and genuine scope to shape how your nursery is run.

Working pattern: Monday to Friday, working shifts within the nursery's 8am-6pm opening hours.

Key responsibilities:

• Leadership and compliance: Take overall day-to-day management responsibility for the setting, ensuring full compliance with the EYFS statutory framework, Ofsted requirements and company policy.
• Safeguarding: Act as or oversee the Designated Safeguarding Lead role, ensuring the whole team knows how to recognise and report concerns.
• Team management: Lead recruitment, induction, supervision and performance management for a team of 14, making sure ratios and qualification requirements are always met.
• Quality and curriculum: Monitor teaching, planning and assessment across the nursery, using self-evaluation and quality assurance to keep standards high.
• Administration and finance: Oversee budgets, staffing, occupancy, funding claims and reporting to the nursery owners and area managers.

About you:

• Qualified: Level 3 or above in early years or childcare, with a leadership and management qualification desirable.
• Experienced: At least two years in a management or leadership role within a childcare or early years setting.
• Safeguarding-led: Confident leading safeguarding practice, staff supervision and compliance across a busy nursery.
• Clear and organised: Comfortable managing budgets, occupancy, staffing and funding administration alongside the day-to-day running of the setting.

What's in it for you:

• A salary of up to £35k, dependent on qualifications and experience.
• The backing of an award-winning group with a genuine focus on staff wellbeing.
• Real autonomy to lead your own setting, with support from experienced area managers.