Nursery Manager (Maternity cover)

Bright Horizons UK; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading childcare provider in Maidenhead seeks a Nursery Manager to lead a team in delivering outstanding education and care. The ideal candidate will have a Level 3 Early Years qualification, experience in leadership roles, and strong knowledge of safeguarding. This role offers competitive salary and substantial benefits including childcare discounts and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

100% childcare discount for first child

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension

24/7 virtual GP appointments

Career development programs

Qualifications

• Experience in Early Years leadership roles (Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager).
• Experience with regulatory inspections achieving 'Good' or 'Outstanding'.
• Strong decision-making skills and understanding of commercial service excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to provide outstanding care and education.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead managing policies.
• Drive employee engagement, retention, and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Safeguarding knowledge

Child Protection knowledge

Team development

Regulatory compliance

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

Overview

Nursery: Bright Horizons Maidenhead Day Nursery and Preschool

Salary: Starting from £40,996.80 per annum (Dependant on Qualifications/Experience)

Location: Maidenhead, SL6 4ER

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 fantastic Maidenhead Nursery.

Our Bright Horizons Maidenhead Day Nursery and Preschool is a beautiful, Ofsted rated \'Good\', 93 place purpose-built setting which opened in 2019. It has 5 spacious and well-equipped rooms including a baby sensory area, and areas specifically for art, construction play and a reading corner. All rooms have access to the large garden area including a patio area which is often used for messy play. The nursery is based just a 10 minute walk from the nearest train station, and has onsite parking.

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

*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 [e-mail] and we will be happy to help.