Nursery Manager

Bright Horizons UK; London; On-site; GBP 44,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a passionate Nursery Manager to lead a dedicated team in delivering exceptional care and education. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on children's lives while fostering a supportive and innovative environment. With a focus on employee engagement and high performance, you will oversee the day-to-day operations of a highly-rated nursery, ensuring compliance and excellence in service delivery. Join a company recognized as a Great Place to Work, where your contributions truly matter and you can thrive in your career.

Benefits

100% Childcare Discount for First Child

Enhanced Parental Leave

25 Days Annual Leave

Pension

24/7 Virtual GP Appointments

Access to Careers Coach

Qualifications

• Experience in Early Years leadership roles, ideally as a Nursery Manager.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding and child protection legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education to children.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead and manage nursery operations.

Skills

Leadership in Early Years

Safeguarding Knowledge

Decision Making

Team Development

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Level 3 Early Years Qualification

Job description

Nursery – Bright Horizons New Southgate Day Nursery and Preschool

Salary – Starting from £43,742.40 per annum (dependant on qualification/s and experience)

Location – New Southgate, London, N11

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 New Southgate Day Nursery and Preschool, situated in North London.

Our 58 place nursery is proudly rated as “Outstanding” by Ofsted, and has excellent transport links being within walking distance to the New Southgate Overground Station with Piccadilly and Overground links, and nearby to 221 / 382 bus routes.

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
• Shift options: 40 hours over 4 or 5 days, 24 hours over 3 days, or 16 hours over 2 days

*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!

If you experience any problems, please email [e-mail] and we will be happy to help.