Nursery Manager

Bright Horizons Family Solutions; Bishop's Stortford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£50,000 per year salary

Childcare discount 100% first child

Bonus up to £6,000 (subject to Ofsted)

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave + holidays

Pension

Wellbeing benefits and 24/7 virtual GP

Professional development and careers'

Job summary

Bright Horizons Bishops Stortford Day Nursery & Preschool is seeking an experienced Nursery Manager to lead a multi-room setting with a 40-hour week. You will drive outstanding care and education, act as safeguarding lead, and partner with central teams to recruit, coach, and develop staff.

The role focuses on growth, performance, and cost efficiency within a high-regulation environment. Qualifications include a full Level 3+ Early Years credential and prior leadership experience in a regulated

Qualifications

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification.
• Experience in an Early Years leadership role.
• Experience with regulatory inspections leading to a Good or Outstanding outcome.
• Experience developing high performance teams with quality improvement.
• Strong decision maker with ability to balance commercial and service excellence in a regulated setting.
• Strong safeguarding knowledge and compliance with wider legislative requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education to children.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead and manage safeguarding policies.
• Collaborate with support office teams to recruit, nurture and develop colleagues.
• Identify and implement commercial plans to deliver growth and performance.
• Optimize nursery performance, revenue generation and cost efficiency.

Skills

Leadership experience

Regulatory compliance

Safeguarding knowledge

Team development

Decision making

Parent/carer engagement

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

Nursery – Bright Horizons Bishops Stortford Day Nursery & Preschool

Salary – £50,000 per annum (dependent on qualification/s and experience)
Hours - Full time, 40 hours, Monday - Friday

Location – Bishops Stortford, CM23 2AF

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.”

Our purpose-built nursery consists of six rooms, three baby rooms, two toddler rooms and a large pre-school room. The nursery boasts a beautiful baby terrace on the first floor for under two's along with a well designed garden consisting of a Forest and growing area along with an area for relaxing/creating

Our Benefits

• £50,000 per annum

• Childcare discount of 100% for first child

• Competitive bonus of up to £6,000, awarded in line with Ofsted inspection outcomes

• 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 will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.

INDNMP

Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.