Nursery Manager

Bright Horizons; Reigate; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare discount

Bonus up to £6,000

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave

Pension

Wellbeing benefits

Career development

Careers coach access

Job summary

Bright Horizons in the United Kingdom is seeking a Nursery Manager to lead a team and deliver outstanding care and education. You will act as Designated Safeguarding Lead and work with support offices to recruit and develop high performing colleagues, while implementing commercial plans to drive growth.

You will optimise nursery performance, revenue and cost efficiency within a regulated setting, ensuring safeguarding and regulatory compliance at all times.

Qualifications

• Level 3 Early Years qualification or higher.
• Experience in Early Years leadership (Nursery Manager/Deputy/Assistant).
• Experience with regulatory inspections achieving Good/Outstanding.
• Experience developing high performing teams with regulatory compliance and quality improvement.
• Confident decision maker balancing commercial and service excellence in a regulated setting.
• Strong knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection legislation.
• Ability to build trust with colleagues and parents.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education.
• Drive employee engagement, retention and performance.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead and manage safeguarding policies.
• Work with support office teams to recruit, nurture and develop colleagues.
• Identify and implement commercial plans to deliver FTE growth.
• Optimise nursery performance, revenue and cost efficiency.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Regulatory compliance

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

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.

• 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

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.

Our Benefits

• 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