Nursery Manager

Bright Horizons; Southampton; Sur place; GBP 37 000 - 45 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Childcare discount

Bonus up to £6,000

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave plus holidays

Pension

Wellbeing benefits

Career development

Résumé du poste

Bright Horizons Hedge End nursery is seeking a Nursery Manager to lead a team and deliver outstanding care and education for children in Hedge End, Southampton. You will act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead, ensuring safeguarding policies are applied and maintained with strong partnerships with families and staff.

The role involves working with support offices to recruit, nurture and develop high-performing colleagues, while driving commercial plans to grow the setting.

Qualifications

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification.
• Experience in an Early Years leadership role ( Nursery Manager / Deputy/ Assistant ).
• Experience with regulatory inspections leading to Good/Outstanding outcomes.
• Experience developing high performance teams with quality pedagogy and service excellence.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, Child Protection and regulatory requirements.

Responsabilités

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

Connaissances

Leadership

Safeguarding

Regulatory compliance

Team development

Formation

Level 3+ Early Years qualification

Description du poste

Nursery – Bright Horizons Hedge End day Nursery and Pre School

Salary – Starting from £40,993 per annum (dependant on qualification/s and experience)

Location – Hedge End, Southampton

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 Hedge End nursery.

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

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

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 are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.

Proud to be a Great Place to Work for 20 years.

We look forward to receiving your application!