Nursery Manager

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, LLC.; London; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Horizons Higham's Park is seeking a dedicated Nursery Manager to lead the team in providing exceptional care and education within a nurturing environment. This role involves overseeing daily operations, ensuring compliance, and fostering team development to achieve excellence in early years education. With exciting growth prospects and a supportive culture, this is an ideal opportunity for a passionate leader.

Benefits

Childcare discount of 100% for first child

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension

24/7 virtual GP appointments

Professional development programme

Qualifications

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification required.
• Experience in Early Years leadership is essential.
• Strong knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education to children.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead, managing the nursery's day-to-day operations.
• Develop high-performing teams and implement commercial plans.

Skills

Confident decision making

Safeguarding

Team development

Regulatory compliance

Education

Level 3 or above Early Years qualification

Job description

Nursery – Bright Horizons Higham's Park Day Nursery & Pre School

Salary – From £43,742.20per annum (dependent on qualification/s and experience)

Location – Higham's Park

Bright Horizons Higham's Park is looking for a dedicatedNursery Managerto lead our warm and welcoming team.

Nestled just a short walk from Higham's Park Station on the Weaver Line, our nursery offers a truehome-from-homeenvironment where both children and staff flourish.

With exciting renovations planned for late 2025, this is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a growing and evolving setting

Our Benefits

• £43,742.20 per annum

• 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!

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