Nursery Manager: Lead High-Impact Early Years Team

Bright Horizons; Hedge End; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare discount

Bonus up to £6,000

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave plus bank holiday

Pension

Wellbeing benefits including 24/7 GP +

Career development programme access

Job summary

Bright Horizons Hedge End day nursery and pre school in Hedge End, near Southampton, is seeking a Nursery Manager to lead a team and deliver outstanding care and education for every child in the setting.

As Designated Safeguarding Lead you will hold day-to-day responsibility, partner with support office teams to recruit and develop high performing colleagues, and drive growth while ensuring safeguarding, regulatory compliance and quality pedagogy across the nursery.

Qualifications

• 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 developing high performance teams with regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivery of high-quality pedagogy, innovation and service excellence.
• Confident decision maker with ability to support change and understanding of the commercial/regulatory balance in a setting.
• Strong knowledge of Safeguarding, Child Protection and wider legislative requirements for working with children.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education to all children in the setting.
• 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 high performing colleagues.
• Identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth.
• Optimise nursery performance, revenue generation, and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements.

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

Bright Horizons Hedge End day nursery and pre school in Hedge End, near Southampton, is seeking a Nursery Manager to lead a team and deliver outstanding care and education for every child in the setting.

As Designated Safeguarding Lead you will hold day-to-day responsibility, partner with support office teams to recruit and develop high performing colleagues, and drive growth while ensuring safeguarding, regulatory compliance and quality pedagogy across the nursery.